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California's Wildfires Just Tripled in Size
2016-06-28 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: When it comes to forest fires, California can't seem to catch a break. Last year was a hellacious one for uncontrolled burns, and 2016 is looking just as bad. In the past week, the number of acres scorched by wildfire has tripled from around 32,000 to more than 98,000, according to the state's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The number of fires the department, known simply as Cal Fire, has responded to is slightly above the seasonal five year average. But it's early in the fire season....
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Wave goodbye to Californias last nuclear plant
2016-06-23 01:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: California`s biggest electric utility announced a plan on Tuesday to shut down the state`s last remaining nuclear power plant within the next decade. The plant, Diablo Canyon, has been controversial for decades and resurfaced in the news over the last few months as Pacific Gas & Electric approached a deadline to renew, or not, the plant`s operating license. "California`s new energy policies will significantly reduce the need for Diablo Canyon`s electricity output," PG&E said in a statement, pointing...
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California's Last Nuclear Power Plant To Be Shut Down
2016-06-22 02:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant will be shut down by 2025. The plan was announced today by the power utility operating the plant, along with labor and environmental groups. With its two nuclear reactors operating near several fault lines, safety is a big concern for those who have been calling for the plant's closure. "Right out there, we've got tons of highly radioactive waste, sitting," Linda Seeley tells Lauren Sommer of member station KQED, standing at the front security gate that...
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California's Last Nuclear Plant to Close Up Shop
2016-06-21 13:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will announce Tuesday it will close California's last nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, in 2025, ending atomic energy's more than a half-century history in the state. The move will shutter a plant whose construction on a seaside cliff surrounded by earthquake faults helped create the antinuclear movement. And yet, some conservationists have fought to keep Diablo open, arguing California needed its vast output of greenhouse gas-free electricity to fight global warming....
Deal will close California's last nuclear plant by 2025
2016-06-21 10:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Rooftop solar panels and churning wind turbines are hastening the demise of U.S. nuclear power plants and the safety fears and high operating costs they bring. The latest example is California's Diablo Canyon twin-reactor facility. California's largest utility and environmental groups announced a deal Tuesday to shutter the last nuclear power plant in the state. The move comes as the operators of the country's aging nuclear facilities confront rising repair bills at a time when sources of...
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