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
California
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Safeway to pay nearly $10 million in hazardous waste settlement
Safeway, Vons stores dumped medicines and batteries in landfills, prosecutors allege Safeway Inc. has agreed to pay nearly $10 million to settle allegations that its grocery stores improperly disposed
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Why Thousands of Seabirds are Washing Up Dead
Washington and Northern Californian shores have been seeing a very alarming (and rather smelly) sight over the last few months. The carcasses of thousands of small birds have been washing ashore, and scientists
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Calif. governor wants 50 pct of electricity from renewables by 2030
California Governor Jerry Brown on Monday set goals to improve the state's environment for the next 15 years by cutting petroleum use and increasing electricity derived from renewable sources to 50 percent.
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Prototype ready, self-driving car set for road test
Google on Monday announced that the first completed prototype of its self-driving car is ready to be road tested. “We're going to be spending the holidays zipping around our test track, and we hope to
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Research on drought resistant, coloured roses underway
Research is underway to bring out new varieties of roses, including coloured and drought resistant varieties, a top official of World Federation of Rose Societies (WFRS) said here today. There were
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AT&T to pay California $52 million in hazardous waste disposal settlement
AT&T Inc (T.N) will pay $52 million in civil penalties and environmental compliance as part of a settlement with California over illegal dumping of hazardous waste but won't be required to clean up the
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Global warming threatens to strip the identity of Glacier National Park
A century ago, this sweep of mountains on the Canadian border boasted some 150 ice sheets, many of them scores of feet thick, plastered across summits and tucked into rocky fissures high above parabolic
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Earthquake: 4.2 quake strikes near San Juan Bautista, Calif.
A shallow magnitude 4.2 earthquake was reported Wednesday evening 2 miles from San Juan Bautista, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 10:26 p.m. PST at a depth of 3.7
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Backyard pesticides show up increasingly in California watersheds: report
- Levels of a type of pesticide commonly used in backyard gardens and on farms have increased in urban and rural watersheds in California, the state said in a report released Wednesday. Pyrethroid pesticides,
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Two California cities weigh putting climate-change warning on gas pumps
Officials in San Francisco and Berkeley are considering what they say would be a first-in-the-nation move to require warnings about climate change to be placed at gas pumps at filling stations in the two