California landscape of climate finance
To support California in meeting its climate goals and using its budget most effectively, CPI created this first-of-its-kind landscape of climate finance in California, building on the flagship Global
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California oil spill pipeline had been left to rust paper-thin
An oil pipeline that ruptured and spilled an estimated 383,000 litres (101,000 gallons) of crude near Santa Barbara in May had been allowed to corrode to a tiny fraction of its original thickness, federal
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California passes ambitious laws on emissions and energy efficiency
California lawmakers have passed a dozen ambitious environmental and energy bills setting high goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and petroleum use, and creating new standards for energy efficiency.
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California drought will cost agriculture sector $1.8bn this year, study finds
The California drought, now in its fourth year, is set to cost the agriculture sector $1.8bn in direct losses this year, researchers at the University of California, Davis found in a study released on
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In a drought, should we drink sewage? Singapore does
SINGAPORE — They call it "NEWwater" but it's just the opposite: recycled sewage water packed in clear plastic bottles, ready for drinking. Surrounded by oceans but lacking adequate clean water resources,
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Downtown Los Angeles experiences rare 'reverse meteorological spring'
Spring weather in downtown Los Angeles and other areas of Southern California flip-flopped this year as temperatures cooled from March to May, creating a so-called reverse meteorological spring for the
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California oil spill takes toll on marine mammals, birds
More than two dozen marine mammals and nearly 40 birds, most of them pelicans, have been collected dead and alive from along California's oil-fouled coastline near Santa Barbara in the week since a petroleum
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California oil spill company slightly downgrades size of pipeline leak
Plains All American Pipeline, the company which owns the pipeline at the centre of an oil spill off the coast of California, on Monday downgraded the amount of oil it says spilled in a worst-case scenario.
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Oil spill spreads across Pacific, fouls beaches
An oil spill that fouled beaches and threatened wildlife along a scenic stretch of the California coast spread across 9 miles (14 kilometers) of ocean Wednesday as cleanup efforts began and federal regulators
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Oil pipeline spills about 21,000 gallons off California coast
GOLETA: An estimated 21,000 gallons (79,500 liters) of crude oil dumped into the ocean from a broken pipeline just off the central California coast before it was shut off, creating a spill stretching about
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Crews work to clean California beach fouled by oil pipeline spill
Cleanup crews fanned out across an oil-fouled California beach on Wednesday to scoop up gobs of petroleum spewed from a burst pipeline in what may be the biggest oil spill to hit the pristine but energy-rich