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Attorney found passion for environmental law in Antarctica

By   /  Friday, December 13th, 2013  /  Columns, Law & Goverment  /  Comments Off on Attorney found passion for environmental law in Antarctica

Kristin Larson took the long route to the law and back to the Tri-Counties. Larson, who specializes in combing over deals for potential environmental law issues, spent a decade in Antarctica as a research scientist before heading off to law school and a career in M&A law.

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Letter: Local governments should be commended for efforts to mitigate fracking threats

By   /  Friday, March 15th, 2013  /  Letters to the Editor, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Letter: Local governments should be commended for efforts to mitigate fracking threats

Dear Editor: The opening sentences in the Business Times’ March 1 editorial on the oil recovery technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” (“Let California set the stage on fracking rules”) would be more appropriately posed as questions: Fracking here? Fracking there? Fracking everywhere? In California, no one but the oil industry knows the answers Read More →

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Letter to the editor: CEQA makes for better projects

By   /  Friday, February 15th, 2013  /  Letters to the Editor, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Letter to the editor: CEQA makes for better projects

CEQA isn’t perfect, but it provides a vehicle for community engagement and an opportunity to make projects better.

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Farmers fight for fumigant

By   /  Friday, July 8th, 2011  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Farmers fight for fumigant

The Tri-Counties are poised to be the front lines in the fight over a controversial soil fumigant.

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Novim aims to settle climate change debate

By   /  Friday, July 1st, 2011  /  Green Coast, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Novim aims to settle climate change debate

A new Santa Barbara-based think tank called Novim aims to settle the global warming question once and for all.

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Feds go after oil magnate’s operations

By   /  Friday, June 24th, 2011  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Feds go after oil magnate’s operations

Randeep Grewal has built up a global energy empire — and left millions of dollars in unpaid debts in his wake.

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CoLAB sues over land rules

By   /  Friday, June 17th, 2011  /  Law & Goverment, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on CoLAB sues over land rules

A Ventura County agribusiness advocacy group is suing the county over a list of wildlife guidelines it says would add so much time and money to routine projects such as barn building that it would force fertile land out of production. The Ventura County Coalition of Labor, Agriculture and Business, or CoLAB for short, filed Read More →