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Report: Drought to Cost California $2.74 Billion This Year
2015-08-19 15:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Agricultural economists at the University of California, Davis, said the drought, entering its fourth year, would impact the state more in 2015 than in 2014, when the total cost to the economy was estimated to be $2.2 billion. "If a drought of this intensity persists beyond 2015, California's agricultural production and employment will continue to erode," said co-author Josue Medellin-Azuara, a water economist with the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. The report, released on Tuesday,...
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100 California Oil Companies Illegally Refuse To Report Water Use, Waste Fluid Disposal
2015-08-19 06:26:05| pollutiononline Home Page
More than 100 oil companies have violated a new California law by failing to report their water use and disposal of toxic waste fluid, according to a newreportfrom state oil regulators.
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100 California Oil Companies Illegally Refuse To Report Water Use, Waste Fluid Disposal
2015-08-19 06:26:05| oilandgasonline News Articles
More than 100 oil companies have violated a new California law by failing to report their water use and disposal of toxic waste fluid, according to a newreportfrom state oil regulators.
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Climate change threatens electric power supply in California, report warns
2015-05-18 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Californians may have to start rationing more than water, including how much they turn on their lights and how often they use their hairdryers. By 2050, extended years of drought in the state could lead to an electricity shortage as well as a water shortage, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. In the study, Arizona State University authors Matthew Bartos and Mikhail Chester found that almost half (46%) of 978 electric power stations in the western...
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NOAA report says California drought mostly due to natural causes, not global warming
2014-12-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The build-up of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere may worsen western droughts in the future, but it is not the principal driver of historic drought afflicting the entire state of California right now, says a major NOAA report released today. Natural oceanic and atmospheric patterns are to blame for the drought, the 42-page report says. Specifically, it highlights a persistent area of high pressure off the West Coast that has blocked rain-bearing storms from coming ashore which some have...
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