Environment – Page 4 – California Globe

Ringside: How Dredging the Delta Enables Groundwater Recharge

August 28, 2025 3:45 amAugust 28, 2025 3:46 am

ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization and winner of multiple Pulitzer prizes, recently published a report “The Drying Planet.” They report that “Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the...

Ringside: Tips to Understand Our Convoluted Yet Obligatory Units of Water

August 21, 2025 2:55 amAugust 21, 2025 6:39 am

Those of us following water politics and the water industry have become familiar with the most common units of water volume and water flow. Professionals in the industry make constant use of terms, often reduced to acronyms, forgetting that the...

Bed Bath & Beyond is Abandoning Failing California: High Taxes, High Fees, High Wages, ‘Endless Regulations’

August 20, 2025 6:35 pmAugust 21, 2025 6:41 am

Last month we were talking non-stop about In-N-Out President Lynsi Snyder relocating her family and company headquarters to Tennessee. This month we are talking about Bed Bath & Beyond announcing Wednesday that the company won’t open or operate retail stores...

DOJ Sues California, Alleges Electric Truck Mandate Defies Federal Law

August 18, 2025 4:03 pmAugust 18, 2025 4:08 pm

Multiple heavy-duty truck manufactures are plaintiffs in a DOJ lawsuit against the State of California and the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The complaint alleges that stringent emission standards to “effectively ban internal-combustion engines in heavy-duty trucks” are unconstitutional and...

How is Gavin Newsom’s $50M Legal Slush Fund to ‘Trump-Proof’ the State Faring?

August 14, 2025 11:50 amAugust 14, 2025 11:50 am

Back in early February, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation authorizing a $50 million legal slush fund to “Trump-proof” the state against the President. However, Gov. Newsom claimed the funding was not to be used for “immigration related legal services,”...

Ringside: The Case for Carbon Sequestration via Natural Gas Power Plants

August 14, 2025 2:45 amAugust 14, 2025 2:46 am

In the case Massachusetts v. EPA in 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate greenhouse gases because they qualify as air pollutants. And ever since, electric power plants using “thermal” fuels have faced escalating regulatory pressure. How...

Californians Choosing Between Gas or Groceries, Utility Bills or Rent

August 11, 2025 7:53 amAugust 12, 2025 6:26 am

How is it possible that in California, hard-working families must choose between gas or groceries, utility bills or rent? The average cost for a gallon of regular gas in the U.S. today is $3.138. California’s cost for that same gallon...