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California Pipeline Owner to Settle With EPA for $60 Million Over Santa Barbara Oil Spill

March 16, 2020 5:02 pm

Plains All American Pipeline agreed to settle with the Environmental Protection Agency over a 2015 oil spill in Santa Barbara County for $60 million on late Friday, almost ending an almost 5-year saga over the incident. The 2015 Refugio oil...

Trump Administration Tries to Throw Out California Car Emissions Lawsuit

December 4, 2019 2:21 amDecember 5, 2019 11:12 am

In court documents made public on Tuesday, the U.S. Justice Department, on behalf of President Donald Trump, requested that a federal judge throw out California’s car emission lawsuit. In September the Environmental Protections Agency revoked California’s higher car emission standards,...

California ‘Resists’ Again: No-Show at Los Angeles Auto Show is just Latest Dispute With Trump Administration

November 26, 2019 2:05 amNovember 26, 2019 11:58 am

The California Air Resources Board refused to attend the Los Angeles Auto Show earlier this week, adding to the ongoing feud between the state of California and the Federal Government over setting car emission and fuel economy standards. The feud...

Government is Failing at Solving California’s Self-Imposed Homeless Crisis

November 25, 2019 2:15 amNovember 25, 2019 8:41 am

Local Mayors value their worth on how much public funding they can spend and spread around to campaign donors. In a new White House strategy on homelessness aimed at California, Trump administration officials say that housing needs to be deregulated...

California To Sue The EPA Over Emission Standards And Will Stop Buying Gas Vehicles

November 18, 2019 8:00 pmNovember 19, 2019 11:59 am

The state of California has made several far reaching decisions about car standards since late last week by simultaneously going completely green on state-owned vehicles while also suing the EPA over taking away their car emission rules. On Monday the...

How Federal Intervention Can Ease California’s Homeless Crisis

October 30, 2019 7:25 pmOctober 31, 2019 12:05 pm

By Edward Ring and Soledad Ursua On October 24, Curbed LA reported that the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to provide an additional $24 million in homeless housing bonds to “repurpose a building (207) on the Veterans Affairs campus in West Los...

Federal Government Endangered Species Act Revisions Means More Water to Central Valley Growers

October 28, 2019 3:22 pmOctober 29, 2019 6:50 am

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently updated the Endangered Species Act, which will result in bringing much needed water to agriculture and growers in California’s Central Valley. Under President Donald Trump’s administration, radical Environmental Protection Act regulations have been...