Inland Empire residents are fighting warehouse sprawl
LA TimesA coalition is calling for a moratorium of up to two years on new warehouse development in Southern California’s Inland Empire, asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare the region’s warehouse sprawl a “public health emergency.” Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. Gavin Newsom, asking him to declare the region’s warehouse sprawl a “public health emergency.” The group also called for a moratorium of up to two years on new warehouse development in the region. He wrote a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday, requesting that it help in “assessing whether market manipulation, anticompetitive behavior, or other anomalous activities are driving these ongoing elevated prices in the western gas markets.” The Sacramento Bee California’s lawmakers have passed bills supporting unionizing efforts in several industries in the state but have so far not extended the same legal support to their own staffers. Times reporter Louis Sahagún writes about a pair of proposals that are testing “state Fish and Wildlife’s ability to mediate compromises among the developers while also planning a sustainable future for complex and fragile ecological networks across the desert.” Los Angeles Times Climate change is straining some often-overlooked amphibians: California’s newts.
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Opinion: Amazon’s takeover of the Inland Empire is a textbook case of corporate manipulation
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Letters to the Editor: Warehouses and big rigs are crowding people out of the Inland Empire
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Warehouse boom transformed Inland Empire. Are jobs worth the environmental degradation?
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Op-Ed: We mapped the warehouse takeover of the Inland Empire. The results are overwhelming
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