San Francisco’s slowness in rolling out curbside charging has many local causes: limited permit-desk staffing, competing priorities for crowded streets, electrical constraints and the lack of any one department empowered to say yes.
Category: Environment
Posted inCalifornia, Environment, Health, Housing
State Vulnerability Metric Overlooks SF Neighborhoods, Excluding Them From Billions in Funding
Several dense San Francisco neighborhoods — including Chinatown, the Mission and swaths of SoMa — scored too low in the recently updated tool, CalEnviroScreen 5.0, to qualify for a preliminary list of the state’s most disadvantaged communities.
Posted inCommunity, Environment, Land use
On Man-Made Treasure Island, Life Finds a Way
Treasure Island residents and visitors are beginning to see the artificial place as a landscape where nature is quietly taking hold.
Posted inCity Hall, Environment
Mayor’s Recommended Budget Sparks Debate Over SF Climate Priorities
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s recommended budget would significantly reduce city support for the city’s Environment Department starting this summer, scaling back one of the agency’s only flexible funding sources.
Posted inEnvironment, Health, Neighborhoods
Remembering the Bayview Activist Who Fought for Community’s Health and Dignity
Marie Harrison did not initially choose to be an activist. Yet the battles around housing, energy and pollution turned a self-identified “milk and cookies” mom into an environmental justice warrior in Bayview-Hunters Point.
Posted inEnvironment, Exposed, Health
City Sat on Plutonium Findings, Then Faulted Navy Over Delay
San Francisco health and redevelopment officials waited nearly a month to alert the community about a suspected plutonium detection at the Hunters Point Shipyard, even as they criticized the U.S. Navy for keeping the discovery under wraps.
Posted inCalifornia, Climate Change, Environment, Transportation
Vehicle Electrification in California at a Turning Point
As state officials debate how to support adoption of carbon-free mobility, some EV boosters say the government has to stop touting eco-goals or offering incentives, and “get the hell out of the way” as the market grows.
Posted inCalifornia, Climate Change, Environment, Transportation
California Proposes Charging Subsidies, Rebates to Boost EVs — but Leaves Key Details Unsettled
California regulators Tuesday released a set of proposals recommitting the state to consistent promotion of clean transportation, largely in response to the collapse of federal support for transitioning the economy away from fossil fuels.
Posted inClimate Change, Environment, Transportation
New California EV Plans Could Lower Costs, Expand Charging
California is preparing to roll out new policy ideas to keep electric vehicle adoption on pace after Congress and the White House scrapped federal purchase subsidies and cut funding for EV infrastructure. On Monday, regulators plan to give Gov. Gavin Newsom a menu of proposals to expand charging, lower costs and accelerate the transition away […]
