Nick Serrano, chair of @sdcwa/@toddgloria’s deputy, says Metropolitan should pause its Pure Water wastewater recycling project. San Diego is building its own right now. But he says Met should take some of San Diego’s Colorado River supply instead. #politifest2025

San Diego's public power company is offering to subsidize customers who install solar + batteries on their homes. There's a $55 million pot to draw from, all redistributed revenue from the energy bills San Diegan's pay. tinyurl.com/3xeaeybh via @uniontribune

Sweetwater Authority, which already buys very little water from @sdcwa, is looking to get completely off the teat with a groundwater desalination project reports @voiceofsandiego.org @jimhinch voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/01/s...

Hearing a lot of concerns from San Diegans about the high cost of rent, electricity, water and childcare at City Council today. - If that speaks to you, join us for @voiceofsandiego.org Solutions Showdown this Saturday at #Politifest2025 voiceofsandiego.org/event/politi...

Councilman Kent Lee throws shade at Mayor @toddgloria during water rate hike debate: “Time for administration to look to its leadership team and rebuild trust from the public…We need substantive change from the 11th floor and the responsibility for that must start from the top.”

Amid handwringing at San Diego City Hall over next week’s vote to hike water rates, city analysts dropped a harrowing report revealing how easily the department that handles water and wastewater could collapse without them. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/26/s... @voiceofsandiego.org

I’ll be live on @kpbs.org with fellow enviro journos Philip Salata and Tammy Murga live at noon talkin’ Tijuana River sewage crisis blues. Listen in:

San Diego City Coucil's fee fatigue will likely overboil during Tuesday's vote to massively hike 💧+ 🚽 rates. Who will they blame? City staff are trying to protect Pure Water from their ire, pointing fingers at @sdcwa for mounting costs. Let's unpack that. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/24/c...

California passed a bill that would make data centers disclose their water use. 💧 With AI driving a boom in an already dry region, the bill aims to help communities protect water supplies. It now awaits Gov. Newsom’s signature. @ianjames.bsky.social in @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/environment/...

The Water Authority has to pay up for $35 million of yet-unmade drinkable ocean water. The longer it weights, the more that water will cost.  voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/22/s... @voiceofsandiego

This is a very cute move by the Pentagon. apnews.com/article/pent...

Environment Report: Information about the Tijuana River sewage crisis is harder to get under Trump's pick to lead the @usibwc. That's frustrating and further obfuscates an already "turbid" issue. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/15/e... @voiceofsandiego.org

Nobody will say whether 43 shipping containers of expired COVID-era PPE the county spent millions to store is sitting in a landfill. One non-profit says it was supposed to transport it for reuse in Mexico. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/15/c... @voiceofsandiego.org

Very intertwined.

San Diego County spent $5.2 million storing 43 shipping containers-worth of PPE from COVID in a private warehouse. Only months before much of it expired did the county act to rehome it. Much of it may now be sitting in a landfill. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/15/c... @voiceofsandiego

Well damn, missed this news - West Nile virus-carrying mosquitos identified in City Heights and Skyline neighborhoods. 20% of ppl infected develop fever. Risks highest for very young and old. www.countynewscenter.com/more-mosquit...

In today’s Morning Report: The sewage- and trash-plagued Tijuana River swelled again yesterday after a water line broke in Tijuana. But none of the new odor sensors the county installed in South Bay were online yesterday. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/10/m...

Drought conditions looks likely in the Southwest as La Niña seasonal swing expected to continue through January.

Dismantling San Diego’s biggest water broker could be what local boundary referees recommend later this year in the face of ever-rising water rates. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/09/b... @voiceofsandiego.org

Tijuana River is flowing again - this time due to a potable water pipeline rupture in Tijuana that's knocked-out water for hundreds of neighborhoods there. But this also means that there's probably sewage headed towards San Diego's South Bay beaches.

Lot lizards may have their lairs removed from Sunset Cliffs bluff tops under the city’s plan to move the park inland as the sea level rises. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/26/h... @voiceofsandiego.org

The days of parking at Sunset Cliffs for its namesake views may be over — because sea level rise is eating away at the bluff’s underbelly. How San Diego plans to rescue this beloved surf and view spot. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/26/h... @voiceofsandiego.org

This Sir Douglas Mawson quote from @helen-amanda.bsky.social study on the abrupt and unknown ice loss of Antarctica. "We had come to probe its mystery, we had hoped to reduce it to terms of science, but there was always the 'indefinable' which held aloof, yet riveted our souls,"

How San Diego plans to save Sunset Cliffs from sea level rise includes -- brace yourself -- sacrificing those sunset-facing parking lots perched on the bluff tops. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/26/h... @voiceofsandiego.org

So MWD is going to talk about their new GM tomorrow … but in closed session. 🤔

WTH is a compost-trash/landfill-food waste bin, @petco? These are opposing waste types.

But the city also isn’t cracking down on bad composting yet. When I visited the landfill, processing compost was at a standstill because the huge compost grinder was down. It hit a piece of metal someone threw in their green bin.

The City Of San Diego is picking trash out of its new green bin compost waste by hand at the landfill:  voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/20/s... @voiceofsandiego.org

After a gas pipeline explosion leveled a San Bruno neighborhood in 2010, the CPUC admitted it didn’t know how the utilities it regulated made spending decisions on safety. Fifteen years later and it’s still figuring that out: voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/18/e... @voiceofsandiego.org

How much is your “life worth” to your electric utility? SDG&E and PG&E had such a high value, state regulators told them to drop the price: voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/14/u... @voiceofsandiego.org

California energy companies were willing to spend $100 million to avoid a death. Here’s how that drives up your utility bill: voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/14/u... @voiceofsandiego.org

How much would California’s energy companies spend to avoid a death? State regulators said, that’s too much. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/14/u... @voiceofsandiego.org

Talkin’ Wild bobcats eating San Diego Zoo animal blues on @voiceofsandiego.org podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/0aOD...

How San Diego is housing people fast and cheap -- the strategy known as "diversion" aka one-time payments to people on the brink of deep instability. Read the story by our @voiceofsandiego.org intern Tessa Balc voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/13/t...

I’m watching a live stream

Omg @jakobmcwhinney.bsky.social … duikers….

So @sandiegozoo.bsky.social talked to NBC7 after they re-reported this piece. (Thx for the cred dudes) They’ve seen a recent uptick in bobcats near their Safari Park in Escondido. I still wanna know what a bobcat deterrent is… www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/s...

Just ran into a couple of Italian tourists having a really bad time trying to bicycle around downtown. They were caught at the corner of Ash Street and Civic Center Plaza trying to find their way back to Gaslamp. This would never be a problem in San Francisco.

Nothing worse than a bus driver with a heavy brake foot.

For my next revived Environment Report: That time wild bobcats broke into the @sandiegozoo.bsky.social and dined on flamingos. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/04/e... @voiceofsandiego.org

Coronado and Imperial Beach are about as opposite as two beach communities can be, but they share one big thing in common. Neither has permitted a single affordable home in years. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/07/16/c...

The Environment Report is back. How you can help prevent monarchs from going extinct: voiceofsandiego.org/2025/07/21/e... @voiceofsandiego.org

City of San Diego, get rid of your false advertisements for the virtual street parking payment system that’s on every meter downtown. We definitely be parking dumber now, not “smarter.”

Spent a year fighting the Feds in court to for these records. The result? Trump/Biden built a border wall through the Tijuana River that violates treaties with Mexico — and it could cause catastrophic flooding in both countries. No biggie. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/02/11/m... @voiceofsandiego.org

France rebuilt the burned-out Notre Dame Cathedral in 5 years. In that same amount of time, the U.S. still hasn’t fixed this sewage plant at the border that’s key to keeping California beaches clean. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/02/07/m... @voiceofsandiego.org

Clean energy leaders ditch branding their tech will save the planet. In a new world of nationalism and tycoonism, green energy is now about wealth building and profit potential. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/clim...

That wildfire smoke-screened kind of sunset. #sandiego

Inside today’s Morning Report: San Diego’s had nine fires this week. (SD firefighters are killing it.) A few reasons why we’re seeing so many blazes, though not all: voiceofsandiego.org/2025/01/24/m... @voiceofsandiego.org

San Diego City Council is sick of the Water Authority’s prices, a point they made abundantly clear in a public bashing of the major water deliverer for the region. One council member suggested the city stop paying its bills. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/01/17/m... @voiceofsandiego.org

Packed house for @voiceofsandiego.org member coffee at Diversionary Theater in the UH