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California governor in Paris to push pact to curb emissions
2015-11-29 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: California Gov. Jerry Brown is heading to the U.N. Climate Change conference, which opens Monday, where he will promote the state's efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions and urge other states and provinces to sign on to his climate pact. So far, 57 jurisdictions from 19 countries have added their signatures to a memorandum promising to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. Brown, a Democrat, has toured the world talking about climate change this year, seeking...
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What happened to California regulators' vows to make steam injections safer?
2015-11-28 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: On the morning of the day he died, David Taylor and his crew were looking for a "chimney" - a fissure in the earth where steam and oil periodically spurted into the air in an oil field west of Bakersfield. Taylor, a construction supervisor for Chevron, had been battling a long-standing problem near a dormant well in the Midway-Sunset oil field. His job was to control leaks at Well 20 in a primordial tableau of sinkholes, small bubbling pools of scalding water and geysers that on occasion spewed...
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Nuclear crossroad: California reactors face uncertain future
2015-11-28 18:00:16| Energy - Topix.net
LOS ANGELES >> Six years ago, the company that owns California's last operating nuclear power plant announced it would seek an extended lifespan for its aging reactors. Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
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Nuclear crossroad: California reactors face uncertain future
2015-11-28 18:00:15| Energy - Topix.net
This Nov. 3, 2008, file photo, shows one of Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach on California's central coast. Without new operating licenses, the plant can't run past 2025.
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California may be a leader on climate change, but it still has plenty of work to do
2015-11-28 12:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When Gov. Jerry Brown arrives in Paris next week for a major international conference on climate change, he will showcase one of the worlds most sweeping programs to cut greenhouse gas emissions. California has perhaps the most comprehensive cap-and-trade program in the world, setting a limit and a price for pollution from factories, utilities, and transportation fuels. The states 2030 goals of getting half of its electricity from renewable sources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40...
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