Brian Schmidt

High Speed Rail Endangers Wildlife, Farmland in Santa Clara County

In our comments last week to California’s High-Speed Rail Authority about the environmental analysis of running the rail from San...

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Tell California’s High Speed Rail Authority to Protect Wildlife and Avoid Farmland Destruction in Santa Clara County

This Tuesday, June 23, is the deadline to submit comments on the environmental analysis of running high speed rail from...

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Opinion: Primary factor creating wildfire risk is land use

Until counties stop building houses in high-risk areas, threat of wildfires will continue to increase This op-ed was originally published...

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CGF corrects discussion of its No on E position

(Palo Alto Weekly published this letter from CGF correcting the discussion of the No on E position taken by CGF’s...

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Major step forward in San Jose (and a minor step back)

Yesterday, San Jose approved the General Plan that the City and we (together with other environmental groups) had been working...

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Letter to Mountain View City Council on History Museum at Cuesta Annex

(CGF sent the letter below to Mountain View City Council. -Brian) October 18, 2011 Mountain View City Council Re: Please...

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Center for Biological Diversity warns San Jose and Santa Clara County not to walk away from Habitat Plan

(Below is a letter from the Center for Biological Diversity warning San Jose and Santa Clara that withdrawing/suspending their participation...

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Two minutes, three points, three successes

It’s hard to figure out how many points you can get across in the very limited time for public comment...

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Guest post: A Riparian Exploration of San Jose

(Below is a guest post by CGF Intern Kelsey Grousbeck. -Brian) We all know urban creeks don’t get the best...

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Joint Organization letter on the San Jose General Plan

(CGF co-authored the letter below with a number of other environmental groups. -Brian) August 15, 2011 Mr. Andrew Crabtree, Envision...

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CGF Comment letter on San Jose General Plan Programmatic EIR

(We wrote the letter below on the draft environmental review for the San Jose General Plan. CGF Intern Kelsey Grousbeck...

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CGF letter gets extension of time to file comments on San Jose General Plan EIR

(We’re happy to note that the letter we wrote and found co-signers below resulted in a two week extension of...

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