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Its official: California farmers volunteer to give up water
2015-05-22 23:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: California`s drought has touched everyone in the state. First the government eliminated irrigation water deliveries through much of the public canal system. Then the governor told cities and industry to cut back water use by 25 percent. Now the state is taking a step it hasn`t resorted to since 1977: It`s claiming water from people with old riparian water rights. These are people who have been drawing water from rivers since the Gold Rush era, and who are generally immune to cuts. But in the most...
Grand jury probes utility's ties with California regulators
2015-05-22 19:17:48| Energy - Topix.net
A federal grand jury is probing potentially illegal ties between executives with California's largest utility and state regulatory officials. The San Francisco Chronicle says Friday that the investigation focuses on Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
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California drought making spring allergy season worse
2015-05-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: Millions of Americans are suffering through a miserable allergy season, and on the West Coast, the ongoing drought is making things even worse. Los Angeles native Lesley Holmes says she's been having more trouble than usual with her chronic allergies to pollen, pets and pollution. Her symptoms improve when she travels, but then return with a vengeance when she gets back home. "This year, it's been a lot worse, to where it's really affecting my daily life," she told CBS News. "It's stressful, you...
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California drought may benefit Oregon
2015-05-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Public Radio: The agriculture industry in California is in the midst of its worst drought in decades and that may inadvertently be having a positive impact on Oregon. It's caused some growers to look north. One Oregon crop that is being affected is hazelnuts, which are drawing record sales and prices. It takes a gallon of water--usually diverted from a river or aquifer--to grow a single California almond. But Oregon hazelnuts (sound of rain) get their water from the sky. 99-percent of the U.S. hazelnut crop...
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Oil Again Fouling California Coast Near Site of Historic Spill
2015-05-22 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Refugio State Beach is one of the treasures of the California coast, a little-known curve of beach in the hills that on weekends like this one Memorial Day would be sprinkled with people who made their way up from Santa Barbara, about 20 miles down the Pacific Coast. But not on Thursday. Refugio was filled not with vacationers, but with teams of workers in white coveralls and masks, scooping up sand fouled with oil that had washed in after a pipeline broke earlier this week. The smell of oil,...
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