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Plan Bay Area: Controversy Swirls Around Ambitious California Attempt To Combat Climate Change
2013-05-26 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Marin Independent: The Bay Area will be spewing an additional 1.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually by 2040 if opponents of a new long-range land-use blueprint for the Bay Area get their way. That estimate -- the equivalent of burning 20,456 tanker trucks of gasoline or 6,664 rail cars of coal -- comes from the environmental impact report for Plan Bay Area, a long-range housing blueprint that has ignited controversy in Marin. A collaboration of four regional government agencies, Plan Bay Area was...
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