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VP Harris Visits So Cal, Announces $600 Million in Wildfire Disaster Relief Funding

January 22, 2022 2:19 amJanuary 21, 2022 10:10 pm

Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in San Bernardino on Friday, beginning a weekend Southern California visit by touring wildfire damaged forests and announcing $600 million in disaster relief funding for the U.S. Forest Service in the state. Harris was joined...

Bill To Convert Municipal Golf Courses to Affordable Housing Killed In Assembly Committee

January 21, 2022 11:55 amJanuary 21, 2022 11:55 am

A bill that would have created a grant program to convert municipal golf courses into housing and public lands, died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday, ending a nearly month-long threat to effectively remove municipal golf courses across the...

California Increasing State Water Release from 0% to 15% of Requested, Following Winter Storms

January 20, 2022 4:02 pmJanuary 21, 2022 11:57 am

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced on Thursday that they would be releasing more stored water through the State Water Project, due to several weeks of wet weather, increasing the allocation from 0% to 15%. In early December, the...

CalRecycle Loses $200 Million a Year Due to Bottle Deposit Fraud

January 10, 2022 3:26 pm

According to a just-released Consumer Watchdog report, the bottle deposit program of the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) loses at least $200 million a year to criminals. The report notes that criminals use many fraudulent methods to...

GM Announces Recognition of California’s Vehicle Emissions Standards

January 10, 2022 12:24 pmJanuary 11, 2022 7:36 am

General Motors announced on Sunday that it would recognize California’s authority to set new Clean Air Act vehicle emissions standards, ending a years long battle between federal and state-level laws on acceptable emissions from vehicles. For years, especially during the...

Proposed Guenoc Valley Luxury Resort Halted By Lake County Judge Over Wildfire Concerns, CEQA Issues

January 7, 2022 1:40 pm

Lake County Superior Court Judge J. David Markham ruled earlier this week that development of a large 25-square-mile proposed resort in the Guenoc Valley is to be stopped due to violations of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by not...

CA State Water Board Announces Mandatory Water Restrictions For 2022

January 5, 2022 2:11 amApril 3, 2022 3:01 pm

The California State Water Resources Control Board announced mandatory water restrictions in 2022 on Tuesday, replacing the voluntary restrictions the state has had in place in the last few years. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story,...