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California's Largest Recycler Lays Off Nearly 300 Employees
2016-02-10 15:27:00| Waste Age
Capital Public Radio rePlanet, Californias largest recycler, closed 191 recycling centers and laid off almost 300 people. read more
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Hot, Dry Weather Could Cut Into Californias Snowpack
2016-02-06 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Hello, it's me. Words made famous by Adele could just as easily apply to what's about to happen in California. An unwelcome call is coming from across the Pacific for a state still struggling with drought. A ridge of high pressure is coming to the state, harkening back to the ridiculously resilient ridge of the past few years and butting into California's burgeoning love affair with El Nio. It could set back California's snowpack and break heat records. A ridge of high pressure will deflect...
Why the federal government stopped fracking off California's coast
2016-02-01 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: The federal government must stop approving all offshore oil fracking in Californias Santa Barbara Channel, according to a legal settlement filed Friday in US District Court in Los Angeles. A lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity against the US Department of the Interior challenges the departments practice of rubber-stamping fracking off Californias coast without engaging the public or analyzing frackings threats to ocean ecosystems, coastal communities and marine life the...
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Metropolitan's Education Program Recognized With California's Highest Environmental Honor
2016-01-25 02:09:42| pollutiononline Home Page
From its groundbreaking grade school curriculum to a program hosting the nation’s largest solar-powered boat competition for high school students, Metropolitan Water District’s wide-ranging and comprehensive education program has received California’s highest environmental honor
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An ugly truth behind black gold: How racial injustices are behind California's fight against Big Oil
2016-01-17 21:58:21| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
WTF? A group of armed right-wing extremists occupy a federal building-and they don't even get charged with trespass? Paul Ryan sat right behind President Obama with an obnoxious smirk on his face for the whole State of the Union-and then had... Despite being known as an energy-progressive state and the vanguard of the green movement, California remains a major epicenter of oil production in the United States. Generally, oil production comes with the predictable environmental issues involved with the endeavor: Polluted air, contaminated water, acid rain, carcinogens, and the occasional landslide, tremor, or refinery explosion.
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