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LIVERMORE — The Livermore City Council this week considered a framework for an electrification ordinance that would eliminate gas from all new construction and increase the number of charging stations for electric vehicles. Tricia Pontau, an associate planner with the city, presented the framework, which came out of the Climate Action Plan (CAP) update underway since early 2020. The CAP measures propose to adopt reach codes — which are voluntarily more stringent than state building co...

Seyfarth Synopsis: Businesses at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) may need to make significant changes to employee health benefits under San Francisco’s Healthy Airport Ordinance by April 1, 2021. These FAQs cover employers’ most-pressing questions regarding the Ordinance and its implications for employers. The seatbelt sign has been on for San Francisco employers for quite some time. Loyal readers know the City of San Francisco’s storied history of passing peculiar ordina...

GISuser.com OGC seeks sponsors for a cooperative OGC – IHO Federated Marine SDI Demonstration Pilot March 10, 2021 By Editor New Pilot will demonstrate a multi-country, federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure for land/sea interface use-cases. 10 March 2021: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking sponsors for a cooperative OGC – IHO Federated Marine SDI Demonstration Pilot.  Responses are due by April 30, 2021. As recommended by the successful OGC-IHO MSDI Concept Development...

ESTA Announces the Technical Standards Programs Above & Beyond Award Recipients USA - The Entertainment Services and Technology Associations (ESTAs) Technical Standards Program (TSP) has announced the 2020 recipients of the annual Above & Beyond Awards. The TSP exists because hundreds of individuals from across the industry volunteer their expertise and significant amounts of time to write and improve standards that increase safety, provide interoperability between different manufacturers, sol...

San Jose, Feb 10 (Prensa Latina) Costa Rica and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) on Tuesday signed a document to improve meat, fruit and honey exports from this country to the European Union (EU).