Environment – Page 104 – California Globe

California Fuel Security is Needlessly Vulnerable

March 20, 2020 2:12 amMarch 19, 2020 6:03 pm

Empty shelves have recently greeted many shoppers due to panic surrounding the COVID-19 virus. Staples such as toilet paper, bread, and potatoes are temporarily gone from many stores. Wouldn’t now be an appropriate time to examine the supply chains we...

AccuWeather Reports California’s ‘March Miracle’ Continues as More Storms Coming

March 19, 2020 1:17 pmMarch 19, 2020 1:18 pm

AccuWeather reported that after an absence of major storms for much of the winter, the Sierra Nevada mountain range region in California finally received some heavy snow, and looks to receive more next week. Calling it the ‘March Miracle,’ AccuWeather Senior...

Emergency Public School Funding and Sanitization Bill Signed by Gov Newsom

March 18, 2020 1:48 pmMarch 19, 2020 11:18 am

On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 117 into law, granting more money and health measures to schools while the coronavirus pandemic continues. Senate Bill 117, a rare bill that was authored by the entire Senate Committee on Budget and...

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...

GOP Uses Obama Law to Fund Dams Barred By State Water Bond

March 9, 2020 2:12 amMarch 9, 2020 7:32 am

The 2014 California Water Bond mainly benefits constituents of the Democrat Party, such as environmentalists, scientists, commercial fishermen, Indian tribes and Bay-Delta farmers to the exclusion of Central Valley farmers and towns for which the federal Central Valley Project was...

New Assembly Bill Could Save Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

March 7, 2020 2:17 amMarch 9, 2020 7:51 am

Nuclear power may not end this decade if a new Assembly Bill is passed this session. The last nuclear plant in California Assembly Bill 2898, authored by Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham (R-Paso Robles), would add nuclear power to the California Renewables...

Kern County Water Districts and White Lands – Kern County Water Agency

February 27, 2020 11:22 amFebruary 28, 2020 7:43 am

A controversial aspect of new California groundwater regulation is the unofficial collaboration of the Environmental Defense Fund to structure water markets that previously failed; and circular buy-outs of farmlands funded with high water rates paid by the same farmers whose...