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Energy Policy

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Tomorrow is World Naked Bike Ride Day. Yes, Again.

    It's not every day, just twice a year​Should you be run down in a crosswalk by a naked person riding a bicycle on your way to the Ferry Building Farmers' Market tomorrow (and it would serve you right for being an elitist tool and not patronizing Alemany Boulevard), it's not deja vu you're experien ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    State Not Ready to Shut Down Mirant Power Plant Just Yet

    ​City clean power activists and politicos were split in their reactions to the outcome of a state power regulatory body meeting today in Folsom, as San Francisco's plans to shutter the Mirant power plant "irrevocably" by 2010 took something of a hit. While Cal-ISO -- the state body that determines ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    Sweet Job of the Week: LAFCo Seeks Diligent Hall Monitor at $100,000 Salary

    Like Michael Myers, LAFCo can't be stoppedAs we've noted in these pages before, San Francisco's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) -- a panel of leftist supervisors and their hand-picked enviro allies that influences city energy policy -- is the sort of organization whose existence is only ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    Riddle: Can LAFCo Be Saved If It Can't Be Killed?

    San Francisco's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) is the appendix of the city's muniEntriescipal body -- an unnecessary entity serving no obvious or useful purpose. Considering the city is looking at a half-billion-dollar deficit, cutting this useless civic appendage and its $1 million budge ... More >>

  • News

    January 14, 2009

    Green Scheme

    The city's master plan for cleaner energy is fraught with risk. And, like it or not, you're already signed up.

  • News

    February 11, 2004

    Bugging Out

    The feds hold up germ experiments at Los Alamos National Lab

  • News

    January 28, 2004

    A Question of Risk

    Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

  • News

    November 21, 2001

    The New Economy

    The road to Punta Abreojos is paved with hollow intentions

  • News

    August 1, 2001

    Power Politics

    Two major S.F. energy projects are in the works. Do we need both? The question isn't really being discussed.

  • News

    April 7, 1999

    Coming Clean

    Environmental group targets Stanford investment muscle

  • News

    March 18, 1998

    The New Nuclear Age

    Livermore protest is mere theater, but lab's research raises real questions

  • News

    April 19, 1995

    Letters

    Livermore protest is mere theater, but lab's research raises real questions

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