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  • Prop. 45 is the Wrong Kind of Permitting Reform

    By Rebecca Schwartz Lesberg Marin County, and all of California, needs more housing and modern infrastructure. We need reliable water and energy systems, better transportation, and greater resilience to wildfire. At the Marin Conservation League, we support efforts to make the approval process for these projects more efficient and predictable. Proposition 45 is not the…

  • Marin Moves Toward a Coordinated Response to Sea-Level Rise

    Two assessments point to voluntary collaboration, shared expertise and coordinated funding as Marin prepares for one of its most consequential long-term challenges. Marin County is moving toward a more coordinated approach to sea-level-rise planning after the Board of Supervisors received findings on July 14 from two separate research efforts that reached a common conclusion: the…

  • Blue Carbon and the Future of Marin’s Wetlands

    At MCL’s June Climate Action Working Group meeting, Dr. Lydia Smith Vaughn of the San Francisco Estuary Institute described a growing area of climate science that is easy to overlook because so much of it happens below the surface. The topic was blue carbon, the carbon stored and exchanged in coastal ecosystems shaped by the tides. In…

  • Barry Vesser on California’s Climate Future | CAWG

    Barry Vesser on California’s Climate Future The Marin Conservation League’s Climate Action Working Group spent much of its May meeting grappling with a question increasingly central to California climate politics: how to preserve the state’s environmental ambitions at a moment when affordability concerns, political caution, and industry pressure are reshaping the debate. The featured speaker,…

  • MCL Supports SMART’s Measure B

    Why Marin Conservation League Supports SMART’s Measure B Marin Conservation League (MCL) supports Sonoma-Marin Rail Transit’s (SMART) Measure B sales tax renewal. We do so because SMART has become an important transit option through the North Bay and because we believe continued funding will give SMART the opportunity to deliver on environmental benefits in the…

  • CAWG Recap: Resilient Neighborhoods & Electrification Update

    Marin Advocates Push Building Electrification on Multiple Fronts From new housing projects to household workshops, local groups are pressing the case for all-electric buildings Electrification advocates gathered this month with a shared sense of momentum. Across a hybrid April meeting of the Climate Action Working Group, speakers described efforts to reshape how Marin County heats…

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