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California governor green lights carbon market link with Quebec
2013-04-09 11:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Plans to allow businesses in California and Quebec to trade carbon allowances across the border have taken a step forward, after California governor Jerry Brown approved the proposed tie up. Brown yesterday sent a letter to the California's Air Resources Board (CARB) confirming it had met all the minimum requirements to share its emissions trading platform with the Canadian city. California and Quebec have spent more than five years developing compatible emissions trading schemes that will...
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Obama Admin. Overlooked Fracking Risks in California Leases, Judge Rules
2013-04-09 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A federal judge has ruled the Obama administration broke the law when it issued oil leases in central California without fully weighing the environmental impact of "fracking," a setback for companies seeking to exploit the region's enormous energy resources. The decision, made public on Monday, effectively bars for the time being any drilling on two tracts of land comprising 2,500 acres leased for oil and gas development in 2011 by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management in Monterey...
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Court Victory for Opponents of Fracking in California
2013-04-09 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Today, a federal judge has ruled that the Obama Administration violated the law when it issued oil leases in Monterey County, Calif., without considering the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. The ruling came in response to a suit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club, challenging a September 2011 decision by the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to auction off about 2,500 acres of land in southern Monterey County to oil companies....
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Teamsters at Republic Services/Allied Waste extend picket lines to California
2013-04-09 01:48:03| Waste Management - Topix.net
FREMONT, Calif. - Workers on strike at Republic Services/Allied Waste extended picket lines to five Northern California locations today, on the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., who was killed in Memphis supporting striking waste workers.
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Operators of California charter school guilty of misappropriation of funds
2013-04-07 21:49:00| American School & University
Couple operated Ivy Academia, which has 3 campus in Southern California Schoolhouse Beat read more
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