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Wetlands or housing? Climate change pressures shoreline development plans.

Dec 22, 2023
In California, a fight is brewing over whether to build middle-class homes or restore wetlands that could mitigate flood risk. 
The city of Newark, California, could move to restore wetlands instead of building hundreds of houses. The development could ease the housing shortage, but the land could mitigate flooding as the seas rise.
Courtesy Derell Licht

San Francisco area voters pave the way for climate adaptation

Nov 7, 2016
The new tax raises $500 million to restore wetlands, a strategy for adapting to climate change.
Advertising materials were only part of the strategy involved in raising support for Measure AA. The nine-county ballot measure received 70 percent support among voters.
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