El Dorado County Environment Digest

Read on for information about the local businesses working with the League to Save Lake Tahoe.

Learn more about the clearing of three homeless camps and the thousands of pounds of rubbish removed before being covered by coming winter snows.

Work is underway to remove thousands of tons of abandoned telecommunications cable from Lake Tahoe. Read on to learn more about how it got there in the first place, and the local champions who fought to get it removed.

Experts don’t know how much gas prices may rise from the revised California climate program, which tightens standards and gives incentives for low-carbon fuels. The board ordered an annual review of the cost impacts.

A lot is at stake with the new Trump administration: California’s water projects, its unique authority to clean its air, federal support for offshore wind and disaster aid for wildfires.

Learn more about how the just-passed $10 billion climate bond measure will fund resiliency projects across the state.

Sixty years ago, I was a reporter for the Klamath Falls (Oregon) Herald and News and with my family lived in a small house on the Link River, which flows out of Upper Klamath Lake, draining a large portion of the Cascade mountain range.

Growers support a federal and state proposal for operating California’s massive systems that send river water south. But it could harm more salmon and other endangered fish.

Capturing and storing carbon underground is a big part of California’s efforts to tackle climate change but community members and environmentalists say it prolongs the life of fossil fuels.

How to apply rebate as part of the recent $80 million state program to electrify homes.

Congress has reauthorized the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act through 2034, appropriating $300 million for the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program.

Answers to questions about the rollout of new blue and green recycling barrels underway in South Lake Tahoe and other areas of the county.

The Tahoe Beach Club sponsored Alpenglow Festival raised over $50,000 to be granted to local artists and nonprofit Clean Up The Lake.

The California state goal to conserve 30% of its land and coastal waters has advanced, with conserved lands reaching 25% and coastal waters 16%.

Over several days of dives at the end of June and the first days of July over 1.76 miles of underwater surveys, only low levels of litter from the shore were observed.

American Beverage has awarded a grant of $300,000 to South Tahoe Refuse to help fund the rollout of new recycling carts to over 19,000 residents of South Lake Tahoe.

To comply with state law, the City of South Lake Tahoe is moving to a three-cart curbside refuse and recycling program.

With almost 95,000 acres of forest treated, work continues to thin forests and reduce fire hazard in the Lake Tahoe basin.

Efforts to bring back the native Lahontan cutthroat trout to Lake Tahoe are making progress.

Enrollment is open for youth ages 5-18 to join the El Dorado County 4-H.

The EPA must grant a waiver before the diesel truck measure can be implemented. It’s one of California’s most controversial measures to clean up air pollution and greenhouse gases.

On August 3, a number of volunteers and staff from the Tahoe Resource Conservation District came together to clean up discarded debris in the Johnson Meadow in South Lake Tahoe.

Legislators and Gov. Newsom are working behind the scenes to draft energy legislation before the end-of-the-month deadline.

Rosalie Herrera has been named the permanent deputy forest supervisor for the USDA Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit.

The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center will be presenting its annual State of the Lake report on August 8.

Harnessing clean energy is a venture of unprecedented scope in California, bringing big changes to Humboldt and the Central Coast, and requiring 26 ports along the coast.

Over 700 volunteers helped clean Lake Tahoe beaches following the July 4th celebrations and reported trash volume was significantly lower than the previous year.

Nearly every major environmental group in California opposes a bill that would modify the state’s signature environmental law to speed up upgrades to power lines. Supporters say it would help free the state from fossil fuels and make the grid more reliable, but opponents fear it would damage state parks.

The El Dorado County Planning and Building Department-Planning Division has released a draft environmental impact report for the 280 acre senior housing development proposed to be built on Green Valley Road near El Dorado Hills.

An astonishing 229 tons of mattresses, furniture, appliances, electronics and other refuse was dropped off by residents and collected by volunteers during the annual "$5 dollar dump day" held on June 8 in South Lake Tahoe.

Funding of over $3 million was awarded for efforts to protect the lake from aquatic invasive species.

With multiple fires already burning in the state, forecasters predict the coming fire season will be "very active."