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We review local, regional and national news that touches on our work here at BARC. Whether it be renewable energy, rising sea levels, racial segregation or the changing landscape of new laws and new technologies that will shape our communities.

EPA awards San Francisco Estuary Partnership $10.6M for Bay Area watershed projects

August 2, 2024 — The San Francisco Estuary Partnership ( SFEP ) recently received two grants from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund program totaling $10.6M. With matching funds from non-federal partners, SFEP has raised about $20M for projects that protect and...

NOAA AWARDS $71M for Climate Change Risk Reduction Projects in the greater Monterey Bay area

August 2, 2024 — Here are two articles describing the NOAA Climate Resilience Regional Challenge program, which recently announced a $71.1M grant award to the California Marine Sanctuary Foundation for projects throughout Santa Cruz County and the greater Monterey Bay area. This region has been impacted by flooding...
Bay edge flooding at Mare Island, Vallejo, Credit to California King Tides Project

BARC Agencies Join Forces to Prepare Bay Area for Sea Level Rise, Increased Flooding via Memorandum of Understanding

July 22, 2024 — Seven regional and state agencies have executed a Memorandum of Understanding committing each agency to a joint work program to address increased threats of flooding and sea level rise in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area region. The agencies participating in the agreement include the...

20 Years Later, How Are City Climate Plans Actually Going?

June 25, 2024 — When the United States would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol in 2005, American cities took the lead in developing Climate Action Plans and hiring Sustainability Officers to set decarbonization goals and supporting policies for their jurisdictions. The linked Science Friday article and podcast...

Everything’s About to Get a Hell of a Lot More Expensive Due to Climate Change

June 25, 2024 — While economic indicators suggest that inflation is in decline, climate change is becoming the real driver of higher costs of living, food, travel, and energy. In this article published by Wired Magazine on June 22, 2024 (originally posted on Slate ), the author, Nitish Pahwa, describes how...

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