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California drought helps state save oak trees from deadly pathogen
2014-06-25 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: California's drought is worsening and turning farms to dust, but it is also helping to save oak trees from a deadly fungus and keep beaches clean from bacteria-saturated water. The lack of rain has impeded a disease which kills the state's signature tree and reduced the amount of bacteria-laden water which contaminates the coast, according to reports this week. The good news did not dispel alarm over the wider crisis. Almost 33% of California is now suffering exceptional drought, the highest...
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Capital Metro could get $50M state grant for MetroRail cars, downtown Austin station renovation
2014-06-25 19:59:52| Railroads - Topix.net
The funds would be the second large investment for the line recently, following a September, $11.3 million federal grant that authority plans to use to lay double tracks at points and increase capacity of the 32-mile line.
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India's West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Co. Orders Digital Meters
2014-06-25 18:21:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Landis+Gyr has secured a contract in India for more than one million digital meters from utility WBSEDCL, which is the public utility responsible for power distribution in the state of West Bengal and is headquartered at Kolkata. read more
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Bay Area clean energy advocates celebrate partial defeat of controversial state bill
2014-06-25 03:50:40| Energy - Topix.net
Heeding the complaints of environmentalists and Bay Area officials, state senators have stripped away provisions of a bill that could have derailed Alameda County's attempts at forming a startup public energy utility.
Massachusetts Becomes First State in the Nation to Require Utilities to Modernize the Electric Grid
2014-06-24 04:32:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) has issued two groundbreaking orders requiring Massachusetts electric distribution companies to modernize the electric grid, building on the Commonwealths national leadership on energy efficiency and renewable energy. read more
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