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PUBLIC HEARING - INTRODUCTION OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ROSA AMENDING TITLE 9 OF THE SANTA ROSA CITY CODE BY AMENDING CHAPTER 9-12 REFUSE AND SANITATION AND CHAPTER 9-14 CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS BY ADDING PROVISIONS AND REQUIREMENTS OF SENATE BILL 1383 SHORT-LIVED CLIMATE POLLUTANTS: ORGANIC WASTE REDUCTIONS
BACKGROUND: California is now experiencing the effects of a climate crisis: hotter summers with record breaking temperatures, even more devastating fire seasons, more extreme droughts, and rising sea levels that erode our coastlines. Scientists tell us that greenhouse gasses related to human activities, like landfilling food and yard waste, causes climate change. To respond to this climate crisis, California is implementing statewide organic waste recycling and surplus food recovery.
In September 2016, Governor Edmund Brown Jr. set methane emissions reduction targets for California (SB 1383 Lara, Chapter 395, Statutes of 2016) in a statewide e...
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15308 - Actions for Protection of the Environment
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