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California Water Alliance: Recent Claims About California Water Operations

January 24, 2025 12:06 pmJanuary 24, 2025 12:31 pm

Weekly Talking Points Memo from the California Water Alliance on Recent Claims About California Water Operations The loss of life and property suffered by the residents of southern California because of the wildfires is tragic. CalWA is hopeful that the...

CA Lawmaker Claims Wildfires are ‘Being Driven by Climate Change’

January 24, 2025 8:00 amJanuary 25, 2025 3:19 pm

Thursday in the California Assembly, lawmakers debated and voted to approve $2.5B in wildfire relief bills, only after Democrats blocked an additional $1 billion for wildfire prevention, requested by Republicans. As the Globe reported, Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance) told colleagues...

California Legislature Approves $2.5B Wildfire Relief Bills

January 23, 2025 1:09 pmJanuary 23, 2025 5:20 pm

California State Senators and Assembly members unanimously passed two bills Thursday morning to provide a total of $3 billion to help Los Angeles begin recovery and cleanup from the devastating wildfires. The proposed funding in Assembly Bill 4 and Senate...

Senate Republicans Outline Decades of Democrats Killing Wildfire Prevention Bills

January 22, 2025 5:07 pmJanuary 23, 2025 1:10 pm

With several wildfires still blazing in Los Angeles, the Globe has been reflecting on how and why this is happening, especially with the state’s recent history of devastating and deadly wildfires. We harkened back to former Gov. Jerry Brown, who...

Ringside: Quantifying the Upside of More Lawns

January 22, 2025 2:47 pmJanuary 22, 2025 2:47 pm

A respected advocate for farming interests in California once explained to me that every acre of lawn requires 5 acre feet of water per year. The unsubtle implication was that the more lawn we kill, the less water we waste....

More California Chickens Come Home to Roast

January 22, 2025 1:42 pmJanuary 22, 2025 1:42 pm

What burns hotter than a disco inferno? A fire in a battery energy storage system designed to store electricity from intermittent sources such as wind and solar. Both Goleta and Nipomo have these battery energy storage facilities and Lompoc may...

Brightline West Rail Project Unveils Higher Than Anticipated Estimate Ticket Prices

January 22, 2025 2:45 amJanuary 22, 2025 2:46 am

A new $2.5 billion bond offering for the Brightline West high-speed rail project between Las Vegas and Rancho Cucamonga was unveiled on Monday, revealing that initial one-way ticket prices are estimated to be far higher than expected at between $119-$133....