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California Appeal Court Upholds San Francisco Bag Ban
2014-01-07 15:00:00| Waste Age
The California Court of Appeal has upheld San Franciscos ban of single-use plastic bags. read more
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USS-Posco to lay off 690 employees in California
2014-01-03 23:03:10| Steel - Topix.net
USS-Posco, a joint venture between United States Steel Corp. and a Korean company, will lay off 690 employees later this month, according to the San Francisco Business Journal.
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Water Bonds Shrivel California Sees Driest Year
2014-01-03 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The driest year on record for Los Angeles and San Francisco is threatening water supplies to the worlds most productive agricultural region and almost doubling borrowing costs on some bonds issued by California water agencies. Los Angeles, which normally gets almost 15 inches (38 centimeters) of rain a year, got less than 4 inches in 2013, according to the National Weather Service. San Francisco, where 22 inches is typical, got 6. Severe or extreme drought grips 85 percent of California, a federal...
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Quebec and California press ahead with carbon trading plan
2014-01-02 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: The province of Quebec formally linked its cap-and-trade system with Californias market on Thursday, as the two jurisdictions plow ahead with ambitious plans to put an escalating price on carbon in order to reduce emissions. Quebec and California are the only members moving forward with cap-and-trade programs in what was once a promising alliance of 11 states and provinces comprising the Western Climate Initiative that envisaged a North American market for carbon trading. The joint California-Quebec...
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California Installed More Rooftop Solar 2013 Than Previous 30 Years Combined
2014-01-02 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: 2013 was a banner year for clean energy, and the U.S. solar industry was no exception. California, the nations solar standout, more than doubled its rooftop solar installations last year from 1,000 megawatts (MW) to 2,000 MW. To put this number in perspective, writes Bernadette Del Chiaro of the California Solar Energy Industries Association, it took California more than 30 years to build the first 1,000 MW of rooftop solar. When utility-scale solar projects are added in, Californias total...
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