California needs more housing and infrastructure, but Proposition 45 goes too far, write environmental and conservation leaders Sarah Newkirk, Chris Wilmers and Noelle Chambers. The measure would weaken CEQA’s environmental protections, limit public and tribal input and make it harder for courts to overturn flawed project approvals, they write. They insist that recent reforms need time to work and that building faster shouldn’t mean ignoring wildfire risks, wildlife habitat or sacred sites. Abundance, they write, also means protecting what makes California worth living in.
Sarah Newkirk
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Climate injustice is happening in Pajaro: It’s our moral obligation to fix the system
Climate change is here and it’s our moral obligation to act, says Sarah Newkirk, executive director of the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County. We need to adapt faster to climate change, speed up federal responses, including funding and — most critically — help people affected, she says. That means assisting the people of Pajaro who have lost homes and also future income, since many are farmworkers and fields are now too flooded to work.
