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SCAQMD board member hears it from mostly pro-fire ring crowd
About 50 speakers voiced their opinions on the fire ring controversy Friday afternoon at Huntington Beach's council chambers. South Coast Air Quality Management District board member and Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido sat next to Huntington Beach Mayor...Tags: Air Pollution, Local Government, Environmental Pollution, Allan R. Mansoor
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Council won't oppose Poseidon as a group
The Huntington Beach City Council decided Monday not to send a group letter to the state Coastal Commission opposing a proposed desalination plant for fear they may be sued. Councilman Jim Katapodis' substitute motion to allow individual council...Tags: Justice System, Lawyers, Mimi Walters, Trials, Conservation
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Higher education for a higher cause
Huntington Beach native Rachel Field used much of her mechanical engineering education at Harvard to invent ways to help the less fortunate — during her time there and after her 2012 graduation. Field's first major project was developing a suction...
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Science and Technology, Technology, Engineering, Electronics
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Mayor wants to have say on Poseidon
Huntington Beach Mayor Connie Boardman wants to send a letter asking the California Coastal Commission to deny Poseidon Resource's permit application. She will be asking council members Monday to allow her to write the commission addressing "substantial...Tags: Water
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State requests more information on Poseidon
An application to build a desalination plant in Huntington Beach is incomplete, according to a state agency. The California Coastal Commission's staff sent Poseidon Resources Corp. an April 22 notice saying its application to build a facility that... -
In The Pipeline: Anti fire-ring AQMD member's odd resignation
The bonfire fight has never been hotter (or weirder) then it is right now. On April 12, I went to visit Assemblyman Allan Mansoor in his Costa Mesa office. I have been in touch with a number of local elected officials about the looming draconian ban...
Tags: Air Pollution, Authors, Vietnam, Environmental Pollution, Allan R. Mansoor
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Mailbag: No need for fire ring ban on all beaches
I have been a citizen of Orange County for 37 years and have frequently enjoyed the beach and the fire rings. Never have I heard of a problem until this year. It appears that the rich of Newport Beach have convinced themselves that they are being...Tags: Air Pollution, Science and Technology, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Mailbag: Saving the Earth hardly starts with fire pits
Melville tells us in the opening lines of "Moby Dick:" "Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries — stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all...Tags: Air Pollution, Politics, National Government, Jerry Brown, United Nations
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In the Pipeline: Air quality leaders' responses not based in facts
OK, hot off the presses, grim lowlights from the new Air Quality Management District (AQMD) staff report, published Wednesday, with proposed amended rules for 444, the beach bonfire ban. To anyone that has not quite grasped just how agenda-driven this...Tags: Air Pollution, Standards, Science and Technology, Authors, Hotels and Accommodations
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Mailbag: Even those without clout can dislike fire rings
I read Chris Epting's perspective on the beach fire issue this morning and I wanted to give you another perspective. I live in Huntington Beach about two blocks from the beach. I am not a "wealthy person" who is trying to keep others from beach...Tags: Population, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Asthma, Rentals, Rooms and Sublets
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Webcam captures secrets of endangered birds
He didn't expect to be staring at his computer screen for hours on end, but Brian Pavloff caught himself doing just that. Pavloff, president of Variable Speed Solutions in Huntington Beach, had just finished working on a web camera project for the Bolsa...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Education, Science and Technology, Endangered Species, Wildlife
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Mailbag: Keep what school sites we have
My question is why are we so fast to relinquish school sites (LeBard in particular) to be used as developments for homes and school district headquarter monoliths? It's all to appease developers, without thought of what should be the obvious. Am I...Tags: Waste, Ocean View
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