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California is on the verge of closing its last nuclear plant. Is that really a good idea?
2016-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: Californias half-century dalliance with atomic energy could soon be over. On Tuesday, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announced its proposal to close Diablo Canyon, the states last remaining nuclear power plant, by 2025. This is just the latest in the utter decimation of America's nuclear fleet. Back in 2013, the United States had 104 reactors supplying one-fifth of its electricity. Since then, five reactors have been retired early and at least seven more are scheduled to close -- all victims of...
Nuclear powers struggles continue as last California plant slated to close
2016-06-22 08:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CleanTech Canada: 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 June 21 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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California power grid braces for heat wave, blackout potential
2016-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: California's power grid operators warned homes and businesses on Monday to conserve electricity as rising demand for air conditioning stoked by a record-setting heat wave across the U.S. Southwest tested the region's generating capacity. The so-called Flex Alert was posted until 9 p.m. Pacific time during a second day of triple-digit temperatures that strained Southern California's energy production, creating a potential for rolling blackouts on the first official day of summer. But the peak...
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New fires erupt in California as heatwave sears Southwest
2016-06-20 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: New wildfires erupted Monday near Los Angeles and chased people from their suburban homes as an intense heatwave stretching from the West Coast to New Mexico blistered the region. Towering columns of smoke rose from the San Gabriel Mountains as two fires burning less than 2 miles apart devoured brush on steep slopes above foothill suburbs. Police in the city of Azusa and parts of Duarte ordered several hundred homes evacuated. Others were under voluntary evacuations. "It's crazy. It's super...
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Deader Than Ever: California Forests Head Into Fire Season
2016-06-18 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KQED: Roger Coigny has lived in the mountain community of Pinehurst for most of his 75 years. Hes seen a lot of changes, but nothing like the millions of Ponderosa pine trees here in the Southern Sierra Nevada that have died over the past two years. And the ones that die the quickest are the biggest, most beautiful, tallest and strongest, he says. The trees are stressed and dying after more than four years of unprecedented levels of drought, plus an infestation of bark beetles. Last summer,...
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