Politics, Government and Business in Southern California's Inland Empire
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Friday, Apr. 19, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Jerry Brown spent the first two years of his second governorship dealing with a chronic budget crisis and finally persuaded voters to raise sales and income taxes to narrow the budget gap.
By Abby Sewell
April 8, 2013, 12:59 p.m.
Southern California Edison has submitted a formal request to federal regulators for a license amendment that would allow the San Onofre nuclear plant to be fired back up for the first time in more than a year.
By Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times
March 23, 2013, 10:00 p.m.
The operator of the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant might request a license amendment before restarting the plant through an expedited process that would not require public hearings before a restart.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Mar. 24, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Sunday, Mar. 24, 2013 – 7:50 am
Coincidentally, three otherwise unrelated events last week framed California’s somewhat clouded economic situation.
One was a revelation that the state now is tied with Rhode Island for the nation’s highest unemployment rate, 9.8 percent.
L.A. NOW
Southern California — this just in
March 21, 2013 | 3:01 pm
An executive with the company that manufactured faulty equipment that led to the shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear plant defended decisions made in the design of the replacement steam generators.
March 17, 2013 9:04 AM
Jim E. Winburn, Staff Writer
SAN BERNARDINO • Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Desert Protection Act is kicking up more dust in the High Desert as the pending bill threatens to shut down future mining prospects, San Bernardino County 1st District Supervisor Robert Lovingood said.
By Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times
March 18, 2013, 9:02 p.m.
One of the two reactors at the darkened San Onofre nuclear plant could be restarted at full power and operate safely for almost a year, Southern California Edison officials said Monday.
By Alison Vekshin & James Nash
Mar 13, 2013 8:07 PM PT
Development of oil-shale deposits through Central California using fracking and other techniques may boost the state’s economic activity by as much as 14.3 percent, a University of Southern California study said.
By Michael Hiltzik
March 13, 2013, 6:14 p.m.
Southern California Edison, the majority owner of the nuclear plant on the San Diego County coast, says the answer is no.
L.A. NOW
Southern California — this just in
March 8, 2013 | 3:52 pm
A report on the root causes of problems at the San Onofre nuclear plant shows that officials considered making design changes to the plant’s new steam generators before they were installed but rejected some fixes in part because they would require further regulatory approvals.
Published: Friday, Mar. 1, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 2B
The Sierra Nevada snowpack has shrunk to 66 percent of average, according to a survey Thursday by the state Department of Water Resources.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 – 5:03 pm
Last Modified: Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 – 7:39 am
Ordinarily, the resignation of a state senator – particularly one not tinged with scandal – is of no more than passing interest. In fact, two senators had already resigned early this year to take their seats in Congress.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 – 8:32 am
Much – probably too much – is being made of the newly minted Democratic supermajorities in the Legislature and the prospects of doing this or that.
January 29, 2013; 06:00 PM
More than a decade after San Bernardino County declared a local emergency because of increased fire risk resulting from a bark beetle infestation in the San Bernardino Mountains, officials say the emergency is over.
To read story by Imran Ghori in The Press Enterprise, click here.
By Matt Weiser
mweiser@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 – 6:36 am
Last Modified: Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 – 8:28 am
A dry January has shrunken the snowpack across the Sierra Nevada, a vital water resource for many California farms and cities.
By Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times
January 15, 2013
The chief of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission made her first visit Monday to the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant, offering assurance that the facility will remain closed until its safety is certain but giving few hints about its ultimate fate.
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/11/2013 07:15:11 PM PST
A grass-roots citizens group has sued San Bernardino County and a Spanish broadcasting company over a 43-foot-tall radio antenna the Board of Supervisors approved for a ridegline overlooking Wildwood State Park in Yucaipa.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/11/2013 02:20:17 PM PST
Updated: 01/11/2013 08:52:35 PM PST
View: Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board investigative order
Published: 15 November 2012 – 12:24 PM
The Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians reached an agreement Thursday, Nov. 15, to acquire the site of the proposed Liberty Quarry, ending plans for an open-pit mine that became of one of the most contentious land-use projects in Riverside County history.
To read story by Jeff Horseman in The Press Enterprise, click here.
Published: 01 November 2012 – 09:11 AM
The proposed Liberty Quarry could go on the fast-track toward possible approval at an upcoming Riverside County Board of Supervisors meeting.
To read story by Jeff Horseman in The Press Enterprise, click here.
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/05/2012 04:18:54 PM PDT
Catch up: Water district continues deliberation on Cadiz Project | Cadiz Project advances with approval of environmental report | San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors approve desert groundwater pipeline plan
A federal lawsuit aiming to block a controversial pipeline project in the Mojave Desert has been dismissed, according to one of the defendants.
Los Angeles-based Cadiz Inc., which has teamed with the Santa Margarita Water District in Rancho Santa Margarita on the 43-mile pipeline project, said Friday in a news release that a U.S. District Court Court judge dismissed the case.
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/01/2012 12:01:04 PM PDT
The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Monday approved a management plan for an ambitious pipeline project that will pump groundwater from dry lake beds near the Mojave National Preserve to the Colorado River Aqueduct.
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 09/29/2012 06:19:40 PM PDT
Environmental and groundwater management plans for a controversial pipeline project that would siphon roughly 2.5 million acre-feet of groundwater from High Desert aquifers over 50 years is to go before the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Monday.
By Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 09/20/2012 10:18:50 AM PDT
San Bernardino County Planning Commission approved this morning a proposal from a Spanish-language broadcasting company that wants to erect a radio tower above Wildwood Canyon State Park in Yucaipa.
THE SOLAR DESERT
A new breed of prospectors — banks, insurers, utility companies — are receiving billions in subsidies while taxpayer and ratepayers are paying most of the costs. Critics say it’s a rip-off.
By Evan Halper, Ralph Vartabedian and Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times
September 20, 2012, 5:08 p.m.
Driven by the Obama administration’s vision of clean power and energy independence, the rush to build large-scale solar plants across the Southwest has created an investors’ dream in the desert.
L.A. NOW
Southern California — this just in
September 12, 2012 | 6:01 pm
The darkened San Onofre power plant will not restart even one of its two reactors for months, the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday.
By Michael J. Mishak, Los Angeles Times
September 1, 2012, 11:59 p.m.
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown has spent months persuading some of California’s most powerful interests to invest millions of dollars in his November tax initiative. Now, that drive for campaign cash looms over the Capitol as he considers bills that could profoundly affect his donors.
Published: 31 August 2012 – 02:26 PM
Four environmental groups filed a lawsuit Friday, Aug. 31, against San Bernardino County and an Orange County water district to challenge a controversial groundwater mining project in the Mojave Desert.
To read story by Janet Zimmerman in The Press Enterprise, click here.
By Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times
August 21, 2012, 1:06 a.m.
Southern California Edison announced plans to cut nearly one-third of its workforce at the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant, raising new questions about whether the plant will ever return to full operations.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 – 12:05 p.m.
As expected, members of the California Fish and Game Commission has removed local real estate developer Dan Richards as its chairman.
By Paul Rogers
progers@mercurynews.com
Posted: 08/08/2012 06:39:28 AM PDT
Updated: 08/08/2012 06:39:45 AM PDT
Six months after one of California’s top wildlife officials faced a fury after shooting a mountain lion in Idaho, fellow commissioners are expected Wednesday to remove Dan Richards as president of the state Fish and Game Commission.
But the unabashed hunting enthusiast isn’t going down without a fight.
By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times
July 21, 2012
The Mojave Desert groundwater thatCadiz Inc.wants to sell to Southland suburbs contains hexavalent chromium, a carcinogen, in amounts that are hundreds of times greater than the state’s public health goal for drinking water.
The presence of the toxic heavy metal, which occurs naturally in the aquifer Cadiz proposes to tap, could force the company to undertake expensive treatment, driving up the cost of the project and ultimately the price of its water.
July 18, 2012 3:44 PM
Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times (MCT)
The company that wants to pump large amounts of Mojave Desert groundwater and sell it for a profit to Southern California suburbs has run into opposition from an unexpected quarter: an international corporation that runs industrial salt operations next door to the proposed project.
Texas-based Tetra Technologies Inc., an oil and gas services enterprise, has come out swinging at Cadiz Inc.’s pumping plans, filing two lawsuits, mounting a public relations campaign and dismissing the water project’s environmental review as a sham designed to escape serious scrutiny.
Jim Steinberg,Staff Writer
Posted: 06/24/2012 03:11:16 PM PDT
RIALTO – The City Council will again take up the controversial water and sewer rate hike issue at Tuesday night’s meeting.
The proposal, which would boost water and wastewater rates 114.8 percent by 2016, survived a strong challenge fueled by a door-to-door and mail campaign by the Utility Workers Union of America.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Monday, Jun. 25, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Monday, Jun. 25, 2012 – 6:40 am
With the state budget more-or-less completed for the time being, Gov. Jerry Brown and state legislators must turn to other business, particularly to three very big and very immediate issues – water, pension reform and the bullet train – that may be even more contentious than the budget.
What the politicians do has potential effects beyond the issues themselves by influencing the November election, particularly the fate of competing tax increases.
Jim Steinberg,Staff Writer
Posted: 06/23/2012 04:12:21 PM PDT
HINKLEY – The clock is ticking for residents. A deadline looms on Aug. 31.
Everyone faces deadlines: taxes, vehicle license tags, credit card due dates, the last day to get a tag to hunt elk.
But Hinkley residents are facing something much more life altering.
BY JEFF HORSEMAN AND NELSY RODRIGUEZ
STAFF WRITERS
jhorseman@pe.com | nrodriguez@pe.com
Published: 16 May 2012 06:41 PM
Liberty Quarry opponents said Wednesday, May 16, that their dismay over county supervisors’ Tuesday decision to accept a report on the environmental affects of the quarry had turned to anger at the supervisor who cast the swing vote.
May 8th, 2012, 8:22 pm
Posted by Pat Brennan, science, environment editor
The San Onofre nuclear plant. Register photo by Ana Venegas.
Operators of the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant now say more than 1,300 steam generator tubes have been plugged in the plant’s two idled reactor units.
Michel Nolan, Staff Writer
Posted: 05/05/2012 07:10:57 AM PDT
BIG BEAR LAKE – Here’s what’s new at the zoo.
The latest development in the Moonridge Animal Park’s relocation project is an artist’s nearly complete 3D scale model of the new wolf enclosure.
Third District Supervisor Neil Derry has spearheaded the effort to push the relocation along.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, May. 6, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
When Jerry Brown occupied the governor’s Capitol suite nearly four decades ago, he frequently talked about an “era of limits.”
Whatever Brown meant – he often spoke cryptically – the phrase was widely interpreted as meaning California’s powerful, post-World War II spurt of population and economic growth was over and public policies should adjust accordingly.
May 3, 2012 | 6:40 pm
A Southern California Edison executive said Thursday that the company is hoping to have the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant back up and running in June, but even then the plant will have to run at a reduced capacity for the immediate future — and perhaps forever.
The reduced operation is meant to compensate for manufacturing defects that led to the plant’s closure three months ago.
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 05/01/2012 07:42:52 PM PDT
The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved an action plan seeking $8.6 million in federal funds for housing and infrastructure projects consistent with the county’s Vision Plan.
The county’s 2012-13 annual Action Plan lists projects in need of funding. If awarded, the grants will be included in the county Department of Community Development and Housing’s budget for the next fiscal year, which the board will consider for approval at a future date.
BY IMRAN GHORI
STAFF WRITER
ighori@pe.com
Published: 01 May 2012 07:30 PM
San Bernardino County supervisors approved an agreement Tuesday spelling out the review process for a controversial proposal to draw water from ancient aquifers in the Mojave Desert.
The agreement provides for county oversight of the $225 million project in the Cadiz Valley, about 40 miles east of Twentynine Palms, that would involve building 44 miles of pipeline to move surplus water from the Colorado Aqueduct to an underground basin the size of Rhode Island.
April 23rd, 2012, 5:04 pm
Posted by Pat Brennan, Science, Environment Editor
The operators of the idled San Onofre nuclear plant could restart at least one of its troubled reactor units “in the next few months,” the plant’s chief nuclear officer said Monday.
Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Created: 04/16/2012 09:19:36 AM PDT
CHINO – Council members are expected tonight to sign off on an environmental impact report that may allow a new recreational vehicle storage facility to open.
Opposition from McBride’s RV storage facility said they are against the development because of safety issues as well as a violation of state law regarding outdoor storage facilities.
BY IMRAN GHORI
STAFF WRITER
ighori@pe.com
Published: 14 April 2012 06:22 PM
With drag racing at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana halted due to a court order, racing enthusiasts are lobbying the county to get the racetrack reopened.
Supporters have formed a group called Save Auto Club Dragway, created a Facebook page and signed petitions. More than two dozen of them spoke at the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors meeting last week, urging the county to help the speedway get the approvals it needs.
Mike Cruz, Staff Writer
Created: 04/14/2012 07:30:41 PM PDT
CHINO HILLS – Hundreds of residents turned out to voice their concerns to lawmakers about property values and public safety at a congressional hearing Saturday on the controversial Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project, which involves erecting 200-foot electric towers in the city.
The transmission poles and towers are being installed in Southern California Edison’s right-of-way from Chino Hills’ western border near Tonner Canyon through the city and eventually going into Riverside County.
Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Created: 04/12/2012 08:29:50 PM PDT
CHINO HILLS – Two lawmakers are set to host a field congressional hearing Saturday to discuss the issue of installing 200-foot electric towers in the city.
The transmission poles and towers are being installed within Southern California Edison’s right-of-way from Chino Hills’ western border near Tonner Canyon, through the city and eventually going into Riverside County.
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
April 9, 2012 | 6:35 pm
For Tim Donnelly, the revolution is no tea party.
The outspoken Republican from San Bernardino was elected to the Legislature two years ago on a pledge to rein in regulations and shrink the bureaucracy that he said was strangling the state’s economy. So far, his signature initiatives — importing Arizona’s controversial immigration law to California and rolling back state financial aid to undocumented students — have failed.
L.A. NOW
Southern California — this just in
April 6, 2012 | 5:57 pm
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko, who toured the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant Friday, assured reporters that the plant would not restart until officials understand the root cause of the cause of systems failures that forced the plant’s closure.
By Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 03/28/2012 04:47:40 PM PDT
RIALTO – City Council voted 4 to 1 in favor of a controversial 30-year contract with New Jersey-based American Water Works Co. Inc., which would mean a 114.8 percent increase in water and wastewater rates by 2016.
About 400 residents crammed into City Hall and three overflow sites – the library, the public access television station and the main fire station.
By David Siders
dsiders@sacbee.com
Published: Saturday, Mar. 24, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
GOLETA – Last summer, Gov. Jerry Brown flew to Blythe, in the California desert, to break ground on the largest solar power project in the world.
There, in a tent near the Arizona border, Uwe T. Schmidt, chairman and chief executive officer of developer Solar Trust of America, proclaimed the “dawn of a new era,” and Brown, who has tied his job-creation effort inextricably to renewable energy, said “This is really big.”
BY DAVID DANELSKI
STAFF WRITER
ddanelski@pe.com
Published: 15 March 2012 08:18 PM
Pacific Gas & Electric Company must pay $3.6 million for failing to contain groundwater pollution beneath the rural community of Hinkley, according to a settlement reached this week with state water quality officials.
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
March 9, 2012 | 5:05 pm
Assemblyman Ben Hueso (D-San Diego) said Friday that he will not pursue a legislative vote to remove Daniel W. Richards from the state Fish and Game Commission for killing a mountain lion during a hunting trip to Idaho.
March 8th, 2012, 4:14 pm
Posted by BRIAN JOSEPH, Sacramento Correspondent
Once again, California faces a budget crisis. Revenues are projected to come in lower than anticipated. The governor and special interest groups are sparring over competing tax measures. Angry college students are occupying the Capitol.
And yet the most talked about issue in Sacramento these days is a Fish and Game Commissioner who legally killed a mountain lion in Idaho.
Thursday, March 8, 2012 – 09:45 a.m.
It appears that a San Diego County democrat Assemblyman may be feeling the heat.
Or maybe he figured out the votes aren’t there to remove California Fish and Game Commission President Dan Richards.
Sandra Emerson, Staff Writer
Created: 03/07/2012 10:52:39 AM PST
RIVERSIDE – Daniel Richards had a friendly crowd at Wednesday’s California Fish and Game Commission meeting.
The meeting was the first since the fallout surrounding a hunting trip Richards took to Idaho in January, where he legally hunted and killed a mountain lion.
Fish and Game to meet today in Riverside
San Jose Mercury News
Created: 03/06/2012 06:48:14 PM PST
Hunters and environmentalists don’t often agree.
But there’s no dispute between them on one thing: Last week’s sizzling controversy over whether a top California wildlife official should be removed from his post for shooting a mountain lion in Idaho is about much more than mountain lions.
By Canan Tasci , Staff Writer
Created: 03/06/2012 12:52:38 PM PST
CHINO HILLS – City officials will appear before a judge later this month after unsuccessful mediations with Southern California Edison over the construction of 200-foot power lines.
Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 11:00 a.m.
All the hubbub over California Fish and Game Commissioner Dan Richards legal shooting of a Mountain Lion in the State of Idaho has been way over the top from the onset.
Peter Fimrite
Saturday, March 3, 2012
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A formal complaint has been filed accusing the California Fish and Game Commission president who shot a cougar in Idaho of violating California law by accepting a free hunt, complete with dogs and a tracker.
Daniel Richards, a San Bernardino County Republican who has been a commissioner since 2008, killed the cat at a ranch that normally charges thousands for the privilege, according to the complaint filed with the California Fair Political Practices Commission.
Written by
Ed Zieralski
2:23 p.m., March 2, 2012
Updated 3:06 p.m.
ONTARIO, Calif. — It’s symbolic that Dan Richards, California’s most embattled official right now because he killed a mountain lion legally in Idaho when it is illegal to do so in this state, has five of his father’s antique muzzleloaders on a wall in his well-appointed real estate office in Ontario.
BY JIM MILLER
SACRAMENTO BUREAU
jmiller@pe.com
Published: 01 March 2012 08:55 PM
SACRAMENTO — When Inland businessman Dan Richards sat before the Democrat-controlled Senate Rules Committee nearly five years ago, it was the picture of conviviality as the panel considered his appointment to the state Fish and Game Commission.
BY JEFF HORSEMAN AND DUANE W. GANG
STAFF WRITERS
jhorseman@pe.com | dgang@pe.com
Published: 16 February 2012 07:05 AM
Seven years of debate over a proposed Temecula-area rock quarry came down to a tense hearing and a swing vote as Riverside County supervisors voted 3-2 Thursday to reject one of the most divisive land-use projects in recent memory.
JEFF HORSEMAN
STAFF WRITER
jhorseman@pe.com
Published: 16 February 2012 07:05 AM
Whether a proposed Temecula-area rock quarry gets built hinges on a vote scheduled for this morning by the Riverside County Board of Supervisors.
The board will meet at 8:30 a.m. in Riverside to conclude its hearings on the Liberty Quarry, which raised questions about how to balance economic development, the environment and quality of life.
BY DUANE W. GANG AND JEFF HORSEMAN
STAFF WRITERS
dgang@pe.com | jhorseman@pe.com
Published: 11 February 2012 04:03 PM
A political rock-and-a-hard-place scenario faces Riverside County supervisors as they decide the fate of a proposed Temecula-area quarry.
Approve Liberty Quarry, and the five supervisors will anger a wide range of opponents, including a politically active Indian tribe. Deny the open-pit mine, and they risk the wrath of business groups and union members desperate for jobs.
$1.8M goes to Hinkley School water system
February 02, 2012 5:11 PM
KATIE LUCIA, Staff Writer
HINKLEY • The regional water board signed a $3.6 million agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric on Wednesday night, dedicating half of that money to build a new water filtration system at the Hinkley School.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/31/2012 12:33:41 PM PST
HINKLEY – The northern boundaries of that plume of contaminated groundwater continues to advance.
Water samples from new test wells – many installed this past summer – show chromium 6 contamination, above background level, extending north of Mountain General Road for the first time.
By Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Created: 01/25/2012 04:20:13 PM PST
CHINO HILLS – Southern California Edison has been ordered to investigate another underground power-line route for the power lines due to carry 500 kilovolts of wind-generated electricity through the city.
Earlier this month, Edison turned over a 96-page document to the state Public Utility Commission that detailed “feasibility, cost and timing” on 16 possible options for building the high-voltage Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project through Chino Hills.
BY IMRAN GHORI
STAFF WRITER
ighori@pe.com
Published: 18 January 2012 07:13 PM
A study of a proposed radio antenna near Wildwood Canyon State Park in Oak Glen states that the project should not have a significant impact on the scenic views of the park — a finding that opponents criticize as flawed.
Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Created: 01/12/2012 04:22:01 PM PST
Southern California Edison this week released its report of alternative power line routes in the area of Chino Hills estimating costs of about $175 million to more than $1 billion if the project is changed by the state Public Utilities Commission.
The amount would surpass the current projected cost of building the Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project by at least $8 million.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/08/2012 06:03:56 AM PST
HINKLEY – The water agency supervising the clean-up of chromium 6 groundwater contamination here has asked Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to provide more scientific details on the study it did to determine the naturally occurring background level.
The request follows critical reports from three independent scientists recruited to evaluate the 2007 study which determined the Hinkley area has a naturally occurring chromium 6 level of 3.1 parts per billion.
Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Created: 12/22/2011 12:55:33 PM PST
CHINO HILLS – The state Supreme Court has denied a city petition to review its case against the installation of high-voltage power lines in the city.
The city’s attorney was informed that the Supreme Court declined to review a Court of Appeal’s decision on the city’s efforts to fight the route on which Southern California Edison has plans to build 200-foot transmission towers through the city.
By Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Created: 12/20/2011 05:45:43 PM PST
Editor’s note: The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin will report each day through Dec. 31 on the state of one of our local cities. We will address what is in store for that city in 2012 while also running down the city’s top stories of 2011. Today: Chino Hills, Thursday: Claremont, Friday: Diamond Bar.
CHINO HILLS – The fight in this city to take down 200-foot towers will continue into the new year.
Chino Hills officials said the Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project is the most significant thing their city will be dealing with in 2012, especially come January.
Posted: 12/10/2011 02:15:51 PM PST
HINKLEY – The plume of chromium 6 contamination in this unincorporated community eight miles west of Barstow has leaped a mile in a year, according to maps released by the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board.
Traditionally the plume has migrated about a foot per day, said Lisa Dernbach, senior engineering geologist with the water board.
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