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Firefighters in California gain ground against Yosemite blaze
2014-07-29 23:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters gained ground on Tuesday against a blaze burning on the western edge of Yosemite National Park and an adjacent national forest, where flames have forced the evacuation of several dozen homes and the closure of three campgrounds. The El Portal fire has scorched more than 3,000 acres since it erupted on Saturday, destroying a duplex home and threatening dozens of other dwellings around the western park boundary, a spokesman for the federal fire command said. By Tuesday morning, a...
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Could California Go All in On Renewable Energy?
2014-07-29 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Discovery: A Stanford professor has presented a plan to power all of the Golden States energy needs with renewable energy by 2050. If implemented, this plan will eliminate air pollution mortality and global warming emissions from California, stabilize prices and create jobs -- there is little downside, said Mark Z. Jacobson, the studys lead author and a Stanford professor of civil and environmental engineering, in a press release. It would take 25,000 onshore 5-megawatt wind turbines, 1,200 concentrated...
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California Clears Path for Funding To Get High-Speed Rail Back on Track
2014-07-29 17:27:50| ENR.com: Headline News
Industrial polluters will help underwrite a 20-year funding commitment to pay for an ambitious high-speed rail system.
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California drought dries up plans for historic gold rush celebration
2014-07-29 00:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Californias drought has claimed yet another historic casualty in this parched capital city - the annual heritage celebration known as Gold Rush Days. Staged for the past 15 years by tourism groups who turn the city's Old Sacramento district into a dirt-paved scene from the 1850s, the Labor Day weekend tradition was canceled on Monday due to concerns about water use and fire. Steve Hammond, president and chief executive officer of the Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau, said that up to...
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California and Mexico sign pact to fight climate change
2014-07-28 23:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: California Governor Jerry Brown and Mexican environmental officials signed a pact on Monday aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, an agreement that could eventually expand the market for carbon credits. The six-page memorandum of understanding calls for cooperation in developing carbon pricing systems and calls on the partners to explore ways to align those systems in the future. California cant do it alone and with this new partnership with Mexico, we can make real progress on reducing...
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