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The Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for Squaw Valley’s proposed village expansion was just released. The EIR is several hundred pages long but can be summarized in these words from the report itself: “Significant or potentially significant effects associated with population, employment, and housing; biological resources; cultural resources; visual resources; traffic and circulation; air quality; noise; soils, geology, and seismicity; hydrology and water quality; public services and utilities; hazardous materials and hazards; air quality; and greenhouse gases and climate change.” […]