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Monthly Archives: February 2024

This Guide Can Help You Save Money and Fight Climate Change

By Nadja Popovich and Elena Shao | February 20, 2024 | The New York Times

Whether you are renovating your home, upgrading appliances or eyeing an electric car, this guide can help you take advantage of savings from the Inflation Reduction Act.

Click here to read the article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/climate/tax-breaks-inflation-reduction-act.html?smid=em-share

Overpumping of Groundwater causing Subsidence

By Mira Rojanasakul and Marco Hernandez | February 13, 2024

From The New York Times: The East Coast Is Sinking. Land is slumping into the ocean, compounding the dangers from sea level rise. A major culprit: overpumping of groundwater.

Click here to read the article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/13/climate/flooding-sea-levels-groundwater.html?smid=em-share

Comments on the draft American River Common Feature, 2016 Flood Risk Management Project

On February 23, 2024, ECOS submitted our comments on the draft American River Common Feature, 2016 Flood Risk Management Project (project) Sacramento, California Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIS/SEIR).

Click here to view our letter.

Reduce solar farm’s damage through wildlife-friendly fencing

Catrin Einhorn reported from the grasslands north of Flagstaff, Ariz. | New York Times | February 11, 2024

The Planet Needs Solar Power. Can We Build It Without Harming Nature?

Today’s decisions about how and where to set up new energy projects will reverberate for generations.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/11/climate/climate-change-wildlife-solar.html?smid=em-share

ECOS Letter to the City of Sacramento re Natomas and the General Plan, Feb 12, 2024

On February 12, 2024, ECOS sent a letter to the City of Sacramento to follow up on the Natomas Basin discussion in the context of the City’s General Plan Update at the Jan 25, 2024 Planning and Design Commission Meeting.

Click here to view the letter.

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