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		<title>Richmond packaging company confronts Styrofoam head on</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/11/07/richmond-packaging-company-confronts-styrofoam-head-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Lartaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the food packaging business, polystyrene has become a four-letter word, but the food industry simply doesn’t have a cost-effective, eco-friendly answer to the plastic that Dow Chemical introduced to Americans in the early 1940s. In 2007, Richmond business owner Allen King thought he had the answer.]]></description>
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		<title>Funding priorities for mitigation fee revenue to remain largely unchanged</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/09/26/fundingprioritiesformitigationfee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Lartaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Richmond’s share of landfill mitigation funding for 2012-2013 is likely to be doled out in proportions roughly similar to previous years, the mitigation committee suggested in a meeting last Friday. County leaders offered an early glimpse at an expenditure plan that would provide the incorporated and unincorporated areas of the community with an estimated...]]></description>
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		<title>Coastal cleanup in Richmond next weekend</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/09/10/coastal-cleanup-in-richmond-next-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendi Jonassen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, on California’s annual coastal cleanup day, about 600 volunteers picked up 75,000 pounds of trash off of the Contra Costa coastline, said Linda Hunter, executive director of The Watershed Project. On Saturday, Sept. 17, the event arrives again, and this year Hunter said she wants to “change the dialogue” -- to make those volunteers someday unnecessary by preventing trash buildup to begin with.]]></description>
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		<title>Retail plastic bag ban discussed at community meeting</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/02/18/retail-plastic-bag-ban-discussed-at-community-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shilanda Woolridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Richmond is considering an ordinance that will prohibit the distribution of plastic bags and allow retail establishments to charge customers a fee for paper bags. The city’s Environmental Initiatives department, which is the agency facilitating the ordinance, held a community meeting Wednesday night to solicit feedback from residents and business owners.]]></description>
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		<title>City may owe Chevron $26 million</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2010/10/22/city-may-owe-chevron-26-million/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Landau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The oil company filed a lawsuit to reduce the property tax paid over three years.]]></description>
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		<title>Trashing the trash</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2010/09/28/trashing-the-trash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Connelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirteen hundred volunteers pitched in around Contra Costa County Saturday to collect more than 3,700 pounds of garbage at the annual California Coastal Cleanup.]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day highlights federal support of local green movement</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2010/04/26/earth-day-highlights-federal-support-of-local-green-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth Day in Richmond was cause not just to honor the environment, but recap the infusion of funds the city has received to help build a greener economy. ]]></description>
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		<title>City hails progress of local nonprofit urban renewal program</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2010/01/14/city-hails-progress-of-local-nonprofit-urban-renewal-program/</link>
		<comments>http://richmondconfidential.org/2010/01/14/city-hails-progress-of-local-nonprofit-urban-renewal-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Groundwork Richmond becomes one of the newest members of a national network of independent local community ventures aimed at improving urban environments through local action.]]></description>
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		<title>Local casino opposition crumbling</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2009/11/11/local-casino-opposition-crumbling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex L. Weber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opposition to a Las Vegas-style casino resort in Richmond is collapsing as casino backers hand over promises for millions of dollars, thousands of jobs and major environmental concessions.]]></description>
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		<title>Years later, chemical company lot still a toxic stew</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2009/11/09/years-later-chemical-company-lot-still-a-toxic-stew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The site of the former Stauffer Chemical Company has been closed more than 10 years, but it's still a hot topic for people working around the shoreline, who want answers about why toxic waste there was simply buried beneath a concrete cap.]]></description>
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