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Energy plan calls for big renewables projects in California deserts
2014-09-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Industrial-scale solar, wind and geothermal projects could be built within a few miles of national parks in the California desert as part of the Obama and Brown administrations' efforts to combat climate change, under a mammoth plan released by federal and state officials Tuesday. Construction of the plants, many of which could cover several square miles, would drastically alter desert vistas near national parks and wilderness areas, according to a draft of the Renewable Energy Conservation Plan,...
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Global warming will turn California snow to rain, hurting water supply, federal report says
2014-09-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KPCC: A first time study by the Department of the Interior predicts less snow in the California Sierras over the next century due to global warming, potentially hammering drinking water stores for the drier months. The Sacramento and San Joaquin Basins Climate Impact Assessment, released WHEN, predicts temperatures in Californias Central Valley will rise more than three degrees by the end of the century. That means some precipitation that would normally fall as snow and stick to the mountains will instead...
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California, Quebec want to expand carbon trading system
2014-09-25 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: California and the Canadian province of Quebec are recruiting other jurisdictions to join their carbon dioxide emissions trading system. Quebec is talking with Ontario and neighboring New England states and California is working with Oregon and Washington, Quebecs leader told Bloomberg News. The two jurisdictions started their partnership at the beginning of this year, after California spent a decade searching for a place to expand its market. The system is currently the largest carbon cap-and-trade...
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U.S. Creates Largest Protected Area in the World, 3X Larger Than California
2014-09-25 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: NEW YORK-The Obama administration announced late Wednesday that it is creating the largest marine reserve in the world by expanding an existing monument around seven U.S.-controlled islands and atolls in the central Pacific. The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument will now be nearly 490,000 square miles, nearly three times the size of California and six times larger than its previous size. Commercial fishing, dumping, and mining will be prohibited in the reserve, but recreational fishing...
California firefighters face tough wildfire season
2014-09-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KABC: With the amount of wildfires California has already seen this year, it might come as a bit of a surprise that traditional fire season is just getting underway. Black hillsides and firefighters cleaning up some burned vegetation are the only remaining signs of the Silverado Fire that burned 968 acres in Silverado Canyon in the Cleveland National Forest earlier this month. The blaze was another reminder that fire season never really ended in California. "We're in the third year of a drought, so...
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