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Massachusetts selects California center to administer to ZEV incentive program
2014-06-17 17:30:54| Green Car Congress
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California drought dries up honey supply
2014-06-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KQED: These are hard times for honeybees; colonies are collapsing for reasons ranging from pesticides to parasites. And with this year`s pitiful rainfall in California, bees are facing another plight: Theres a lot less natural forage to make honey. Second-generation beekeeper David Bradshaw pulls his truck up alongside wooden boxes of beehives on a farm outside the Central Valley town of Visalia. Soon, a loud mechanical sound some would say a beekeepers buzz kill drowns out the lively drone of...
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California school district needs $3 million for construction
2014-06-17 14:13:00| American School & University
The school district will need to sell more bonds to finish construction at Jefferson and Traina elementary schools because the site prep is costing close to $7 million, far beyond the prep costs incurred by most schools built within the city limit. read more
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California wildfire threatens homes near Sequoia National Park
2014-06-16 21:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A California wildfire that has already destroyed three structures and blackened some three square miles of forest land near Sequoia National Park was threatening 1,000 more homes on Monday, officials said. More than 1,100 firefighters were battling the so-called Shirley Fire, which erupted on Friday evening on the park's outskirts northeast of Bakersfield and prompted the evacuation of several foothill communities. The flames jumped containment lines on Saturday, fueled by high winds and dry brush,...
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California wildfire prompts hundreds of home evacuations
2014-06-15 18:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Hundreds of firefighters on Sunday were battling a wildfire in southern California that prompted the evacuation of about 500 homes, local officials said. The Shirley Fire was only five percent contained and burning over 800 acres, sending smoke plumes across the Kern River Valley, about 130 miles (209 km) north east of Los Angeles. Mandatory evacuations of about 500 homes in proximity to the blaze northeast of the city of Bakersfield started Saturday, according to a statement from the Kern County...
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