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For Electric Vehicle Sales Strength, its Not All About California
2014-09-17 18:51:33| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
The California Plug-in Electric Vehicle Collaborative just announced a milestone: the 100,000 mark has been crossed.. Californians are buying about 40% of all the EVs sold in the US. That has a lot to do with automakers launching these cars in California and keeping the supply and marketing very limited in other states. Here are some other ways OEMs and dealers could see EV sales increase outside that state............ GET MORE DETAILS _________________________________________________________ The Article For Electric Vehicle Sales Strength, its Not All About California appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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Amid Drought, New California Law Will Limit Groundwater Pumping for Fi
2014-09-17 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Despite California's reputation as an environmental policy leader, its regulation of groundwater extraction has long been among the weakest in the nation. That changed Tuesday, when California Governor Jerry Brown signed a package of three bills designed to regulate the pumping of water from underground aquifers. While many observers say the rules are too little and too late to protect the state's rapidly depleting aquifers, the new laws are still a major shift in a long-deadlocked political battle....
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Wildfire rips through 150 homes in Northern California
2014-09-16 23:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Fire crews in California battled on Tuesday to halt the advance of a day-old wildfire that has already destroyed about 150 homes, lapped at rural schools and caused power outages that left an evacuation shelter without electricity, authorities said. The blaze, one of about a dozen major fires raging across the drought-parched state, prompted authorities to order the evacuation of about 1,000 households in and around the Northern California town of Weed, which has a population of about 3,000. "Weed...
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California governor OKs bills to regulate groundwater amid drought
2014-09-16 22:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: California Governor Jerry Brown signed a package of bills on Tuesday to regulate California's stressed groundwater supplies amid a drought that is expected to cost the state $2.2 billion in lost crops, jobs and other damages, with no end in sight. The bills will allow the state to take over management of underground aquifers and water accessed via wells, and aim to tighten oversight of water at a time when groundwater levels are shrinking in the third year of a catastrophic drought. "We have to...
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California home sales drop as median price rises
2014-09-16 20:29:06| Real Estate - Topix.net
California home sales slipped in August after two months of increases as the median home price rose, the California Association of Realtors reported today. Closed escrow sales of existing, single-family detached homes in California totaled a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 394,280 units in August, according to information collected by CAR.
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