Emails Show How Flood Study Finally Became Public
RELATED: Projects Sailed Through Despite Dire Study The Public Press initially inquired about the Mission Creek study in late 2014 and was told that it was in draft form and delayed for more technical...
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Projects Sailed Through Despite Dire Flood Study
A city-commissioned environmental study that detailed how the Mission Bay neighborhood would be inundated by rising seas in coming decades went unpublished for more than a year while two showcase...
View ArticleTimeline: Lawyers for Developers Share Tactics to Blunt CEQA
RELATED: Weakened Law Shifts Sea Rise Cost to Cities In 1995, the Diablo Valley Ranch, a drug rehab facility in Contra Costa County, planned to expand. The problem? According to neighbors, the land it...
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By Weakening Law, Developers Shift Sea Rise Burden to Cities
California politicians expressed outrage in March when details of a White House budget proposal suggested President Trump would slash a $1 billion environmental grant for restoring San Francisco Bay...
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Visionary Solutions to Bayfront Inundation
The changing climate and shifting weather patterns are affecting each region of the globe differently, and not all coastal cities will experience sea level rise in the same manner. Even within the Bay...
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Local Planners Brace for Faster Antarctic Ice Melt
Reports warn of extreme sea levels, dangers of inaction Across California, policymakers and urban planners at every level of government are struggling with how to respond to new computer models that...
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Mapping the Shoreline Building Boom as Seas Rise
Full page view of interactive map Cartography by Maia Wachtel, Marcea Ennamorato and Brittany Burson // UC Berkeley CAGE Lab. Map by Amanda Hickman, with research by Lulu Orozco // Public Press. The...
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State Looking to Require Cities to Plan for Rising Seas
California officials are taking their first, tentative steps toward requiring cities to plan for severe sea level rise that scientists now say could conceivably elevate high tides by up to 22 feet by...
View ArticleSea Level Rise in S.F. Will Affect More Than the Waterfront
Professor Kristina Hill, of the University of California, Berkeley, outlines how sea level rise is likely to affect San Francisco, the danger posed by toxic waste and how the city could adapt. “Places...
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Promising to Prevent Floods at Treasure Island, Builders Downplay Risk of Sea...
Sea level rise is forcing cities around San Francisco Bay to weigh demand for new housing against the need to protect communities from flooding. Builders say they can solve this dilemma with...
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