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In Migrant Camp, Calif Drought Brings Familiar Desperation
2014-12-31 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: "They were hungry, and they were fierce. And they had hoped to find a home, and they found only hatred.-The Grapes of Wrath Like the fictional Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath, I'd dreamt of eating fresh peaches picked from a tree. Inspired by pastoral pictures on food labels, I'd imagined wading deep into the avocado orchards, tomato fields, and lettuce farms of California's Central Valley. Instead, as my family drove the roads bisecting Highway 99 during a hot week in July, we passed unplanted...
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Plastic Bag Manufacturers Spend $3 Million Hoping Repeal Calif Ban
2014-12-31 17:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: This past September, California became the first state in the U.S. to ban single-use plastic bags when Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill sponsored by San Fernando Valley State Senator Alex Padilla, overcoming heavy lobbying and big spending from a handful of out-of-state bag manufacturers. This bill is a step in the right directionit reduces the torrent of plastic polluting our beaches, parks and even the vast ocean itself, said Brown in September. Were the first to ban these bags, and we...
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Customer leaves a Pep Boys auto parts store in Hayward, Calif.
2014-12-24 22:14:33| Auto Parts - Topix.net
With the auto industry finishing the year with the highest sales since 2007, investors might consider another way of taking advantage of Americans' newfound love of motoring: auto parts and service. Pep Boys , one of the best known retail auto-parts chains, is already seeing consumers pouring some of the added cash in their pockets from a rising economy into their cars.
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Drought dries rural Calif wells residents carry water in buckets
2014-12-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sentinel: The water vanished from Olivia Vargas modest East Porterville home on an ordinary morning as she was rinsing her breakfast dishes. It left Yolanda Serratos house just as suddenly, sputtering, then stopping, as she held a garden hose. Soon, the faucets at Iglesia Emmanuel went dry as parishioners tried to clean up after Sunday services. Ten miles away, Ron and Cheryl Perine poured two glasses of water to drink and watched in disbelief as sand settled to the bottom. It was devastating,...
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Must Calif. Dump Its Oil Spill Prevention Regime?
2014-12-04 18:40:40| Railroads - Topix.net
On Oct. 7, 2014, the Association of American Railroads and two of its member rail carriers filed suit against California's Office of Spill Prevention and Response in an effort to strike down the state's recent effort to regulate rail. Tucked among the lengthy provisions of SB 861, a budget trailer bill enacted on June 20, 2014, amendments to the state's oil spill prevention regime bring transportation of crude oil by rail under OSPR's regulatory umbrella.
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