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Californias unusual plan to cut greenhouse gases
2013-08-21 12:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When Californias S.B. 375 was passed in 2008, there were many skeptics. The law aimed to get metropolitan regions around the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions through changes to development form and transportation. (If it were a country, California would rank somewhere between the world`s 10th and 12th largest economy, so its effect could be significant.) In 2011, the California Air Resources Board set GHG emissions reduction targets by metro region for passenger vehicles (passenger vehicles...
Half Of California's Wireless 9-1-1 Calls Are Delivered Without Caller Location Information
2013-08-14 03:37:12| Location-Based Services (LBS) Zone
New Data Show More Than Half Of California's Wireless 9-1-1 Calls Are Delivered Without Caller Location Information - Data Filed with FCC Shows Significant Decline in Wireless 9-1-1 Location Delivery in Major California Cities
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Pesticides contaminating frogs in California's national parks
2013-07-26 18:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Pesticides from California's valley farms are collecting in the tissues of a singing treefrog that lives in pristine national parks, including Yosemite and Giant Sequoia, a new study finds. The chemicals include two fungicides never before found in wild frogs, said Kelly Smalling, lead study author and a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research hydrologist. The study was published today (July 26) in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. "Fungicides have been registered for use for...
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California's next innovation: performance-based rainforest conservation
2013-07-22 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Often misunderstood, REDD+ forest carbon offsets are a must have for any realistic climate-change mitigation strategy. Californians are known as innovation leaders, and once again, we are on the verge of demonstrating critical leadership. Only this time it isnt about the Internet, social networking, reality television, venture capital or electric cars. It is about stopping tropical deforestation and supporting local communities. What!? you say? How is the great state of California, home of...
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Celebration of Southern California's Largest Deployment of Zero-Emission Delivery Trucks
2013-07-17 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Today the South Coast Air Quality Management District, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California Energy Commission, California Air Resources Board, UPS, Electric Vehicles International (EVI), and others celebrate the deployment of 40 zero-emission delivery vehicles manufactured by EVI in California and operated by UPS in San Bernardino. This event recognizes one of the largest concentrations in Southern California of fully electric commercial trucks that ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of: Electric Trucks
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