OAKLAND -- First it was the Inland Empire, then San Diego. Now California Attorney General Jerry Brown is zeroing in on Silicon Valley growth plans over global warming fears.

The city of San Jose with its proposed Coyote Valley housing development is the latest local authority to feel Brown's anti-greenhouse gas (GHG) wrath. The development would add some 25,000 homes - many in the "affordable" price-range - and 50,000 jobs to the area.

The city released Coyote Valley's Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) in April. The report, which must be approved by the state government before ground is broken, attracted many negative comments from a range of interests.

Brown's comments focused on the development's impact on GHG emmissions, projected at an extra 500,000 metric tons annually. They also charged the city with a lack of effort in attempting to lower what "would appear to be a considerable contribution" to state GHG emissions.

The AG's letter also includes several suggestions to mitigate Coyote Valley's GHG emissions. These include encouraging more energy-efficient design and construction, reducing emphasis on automobile transport and adding alternative electricity generation.

Last month the city of San Diego received similar advice from the attorney general's office, urging it to make long-term plans to mitigate GHG emissions, LNL reported. In April the attorney general sued San Bernardino County to force changes to its General Plan aimed at cutting GHGs.

Brown charged San Bernardino with breaching Assembly Bill 32, passed in 2006, which mandates that public entities adopt strategies to reduce GHG emissions. His recent aggressive pursuit of other communities suggests that similar suits elsewhere could be imminent.

The amount and magnitude of opposition to the Coyote Valley development's DEIR might now jeopardize the entire project, the San Jose Mercury News reported. Invited comments to the DEIR ran to 1,300 pages, the paper noted.