Category Archives: News

SMUD could have killed a bad solar project months ago, but didn’t. Why? January 6, 2026, The Sacramento Bee

By Tom Philp | January 6, 2026 | The Sacramento Bee

This feels like a complete breakdown in due diligence and transparency by SMUD. It was the utility’s job to vet this project with the public, not DESRI. This is a public power utility that is supposed to do the public’s business in public. Somewhere down the line, DESRI became SMUD’s client, not ratepayers, not the community at large, while board members who are supposed to be in charge sat on their hands.

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Environmental groups file lawsuits against 440-acre project near Sacramento airport, January 6, 2026, The Sacramento Bee

By Mathew Miranda | January 6, 2026 | The Sacramento Bee

The lawsuits, filed on Dec. 30 and Monday against the city and developer NorthPoint Development, allege that the Sacramento City Council unlawfully approved the project’s environmental impact report last month. The development, known as the Airport South Industrial, would build warehouses, hotels and restaurants in an unincorporated area of Sacramento County.

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SMUD cancels controversial Coyote Creek Project PPA that would remove 3500 trees, January 5, 2026, Daily Kos

By Dan Bacher | January 5, 2026

This is a partial victory for the environmental groups and Indian Tribes, including the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians and the Wilton Rancheria, who opposed the project that would remove nearly 3500 trees from habitat draining a tributary of Deer Creek, in turn a tributary of the Cosumnes River, the last undammed Central Valley river.

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