Seal Beach Daily

Sustainable Surfing Rides the Waves “The $7.2 billion surf business has become the latest industry to ride the green wave. Call it sustainable surfing.” Read more in the New York Times.

1 clean truck program, 2 ports, and now 2 strategies “A year after the Clean Trucks program began at the harbor complex, the two ports in San Pedro Harbor are headed in divergent directions. The port of Los Angeles continues to fight challenges to pollution controls in court. In Long Beach, harbor commissioners are trying to end the same lawsuit.” Read more from KPCC radio.

Sales of big energy-guzzling TVs banned in California The California Energy Commission [Wedensday] unanimously voted to force TV manufacturers to build more energy-efficient big TVs by 2011…” Read more at ocregister.com.

Mayors ask Secretary of the Army to discontinue Los Al Base compost project “The mayors of Seal Beach, Garden Grove, Cypress and Los Alamitos and the board president of the Rossmoor Community Services District sent a letter today to Secretary of the Army John McHugh requesting that he immediately terminate the composting project at the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base.” Read more at SBD.

Many oppose Seal Beach homeless shelter “Some residents voiced strong opposition to a proposal by a Long Beach pastor who wants to found a $1.1 million homeless shelter in Seal Beach, saying the plan was unorganized and poorly researched.” Read more at ocregister.com.

Keep up with all the area headlines throughout the week. Browse our hand-picked list of stories from the Orange County Register (left) and bookmark Seal Beach Daily’s “In the News” page to link to stories of interest to the Seal Beach, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, Sunset Beach and Surfside area.