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Guest Opinion: NEC and Baykeeper Say 101 Plan ‘Reasonably Balanced’

Dan Ehresman of the Northcoast Environmental Center and Jessica Hall of Humboldt Baykeeper were just two of the numerous people who stood before the Coastal Commission last week and urged denial of a federal consistency determination. (The commission went the other way, with a few significant conditions applied.) This week the environmental leaders issued the following joint […]

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Coastal Commission Gives Conditional Go-Ahead to Caltrans’ 101 Corridor Project

Going against its own staff’s recommendation, the California Coastal Commission this evening voted 9-1 to give a conditional federal consistency determination (translation: a go-ahead) to Caltrans’ proposed project for the 101 corridor between Arcata and Eureka.  And that’s not all: The “conditional” part of the approval means that Caltrans will have to address a number […]

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