The 9th Circuit Appellate Court reviewed the EIS prepared for the exchange of land in Joshua Tree National Park between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Kaiser Eagle Mountain Inc. and confirmed that the EIS violated NEPA. Specifically, the EIS: used too narrow purpose objectives that resulted in a flawed alternative analysis, and didn’t [...]
Archive | November, 2009
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Sign up for a Cubit subscription before January 1, and you’ll get unlimited Cubit reports for just $499 per month for all of 2010. We’ve heard from our users that 1 Cubit report saves 40 hours of work and several thousands of dollars, but what our users really want is to be able to pull [...]
Socio-Ec Reports now include Shapefiles
Your Socio-Ec Reports now include corresponding shapefiles of intersecting Census geographies. Today, your GIS Guru can drop this shapefile into her mapping system for your project—-producing a custom map in less time. Want to try shapefiles for free? For November 18, 2009 only, contact Anthony by email or phone at 512-563-8477, and he’ll send you [...]
Hand to Mouth: EPA Releases Guide to Child Environmental Exposures
On October 27, the EPA released the final report “Highlights of the Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook,” an accessible introduction to the Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook (CSEFH), which provides risk assessors a user-friendly reference guide to “behavioral and physiological characteristics needed to estimate childhood exposure to toxic contaminants and other environmental stressors”. The Highlights Handbook presents [...]
Say It To My Facebook: Using Social Media for Public Involvement
Ryan Link, a Planner with Michael Baker Jr. Inc’s (Baker) Richmond, Virginia office, got hooked on social media over a year ago when working with the non-profit Athletes for a Cure. He immediately made the connection that sites such as Twitter and Facebook could increase public engagement, involvement and outreach for NEPA and just about [...]
