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Landwatch Claims P.G. Wasted Money On Climate Change Study

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Hired the lid flippers from Blue Strike Environmental. Landwatch wants to ban your outdoor BBQ grill, too.

(Landwatch) slammed a proposed climate action plan that cost Pacific Grove taxpayers nearly $100,000, saying it’s riddled with factual errors and unsupported claims, lacks critical analyses and doesn’t fulfill the terms of the author’s agreement with the city.
In January 2025, the Pacific Grove City Council approved paying $99,515 to Monterey-based Blue Strike Environmental to develop a so-called climate action and adaptation plan, which sought to “equip the city of Pacific Grove with actionable strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to climate challenges.”

Landwatch Claims P.G. Wasted Money On Climate Change Study

Meetings Don’t Solve Fire Hazards

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Washington Park is a tinderbox of dead weeds and trees. But Dominick Sinicropi says leave it be. City spends $100,000 to have the effects of global warming on wildfire.

GW Park Fuel 3

The meeting will discuss “near future efforts to lessen the threats from wildfires in our wildland interface areas,” The meeting comes after concerns from residents about the amount of dead brush, trees and other fuel they say could help a wildfire move quickly through the roughly 20-acre George Washington Park and spread to nearby homes. At the Jan. 16 P.G. City Council meeting, resident Kevin Hanley told the council that fuel at the park should be thinned to prevent a “catastrophic fire.”

However, not everyone agrees, including monarch butterfly buff Dominick Sinicropi, who told The Pine Cone last month that “instead of blaming natural areas for devastating fires,” including the recent fires in Southern California that destroyed thousands of structures, P.G. should be prioritizing measures to reduce causes from people, including from “outdoor barbecues” and “overhead power
lines.”

Meetings Don’t Solve Fire Hazards