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New Poll Shows Californians Strongly Oppose Fracking
2013-08-01 22:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A majority of Californians oppose expanded fracking in the Golden State, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research foundation. As oil companies gear up to frack massive petroleum deposits in the Monterey Shale, the poll also found that 65 percent of Californians say the state should act immediately to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The poll--the second this summer to find strong California opposition to fracking--puts new pressure on state lawmakers...
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Poll finds Californians back climate change fight, skeptical on fracking
2013-08-01 06:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: An overwhelming majority of Californians believe the state should act to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new poll, while residents narrowly oppose hydraulic fracturing and support construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Climate change represents a concrete threat for a majority of Californians, according to the new Public Policy Institute of California poll. More than three-fourths of respondents -- 77 percent -- called climate change a "very serious" or "somewhat serious" threat...
Californians Consider a Future Without a Nuclear Plant for a Neighbor
2013-07-26 05:34:52| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Residents of this quiet Orange County beach community often all but forgot about the hulking nuclear plant just south of the city limits. But reminders, while infrequent, were jarring. The governors office mailed residents potassium iodide pills, to take in case of a radioactive leak. Emergency sirens occasionally sounded in the middle of the night (false alarms, residents were told). And anyone who drove south out of town was confronted with the plants looming twin domes. But after nearly half...
58,000 Californians to lose current insurance under Obamacare
2013-07-08 08:04:44| Beverages - Topix.net
UnitedHealth Group Inc. said that it will not participate in California's individual health insurance market beginning Jan. 1, 2014, when Obamacare regulations will take effect, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Viewpoints Q&A: How climate change may affect Californians
2013-06-23 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, the ranking member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, asked the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced a series of questions about the effects of climate change on California as background for policy development. The following are some of the responses from Sierra Nevada Research Institute director Roger Bales and senior researcher Norm Miller. What are the most serious threats facing Northern California because of climate change? Northern California,...
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