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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Climate change threatens 30 U.S. landmarks: science advocacy group
Climate change is threatening U.S. landmarks from the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor to the César Chávez National Monument in Keene, California with floods, rising sea levels and fires, scientists
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Santa Cruz becomes first California county to ban fracking
Santa Cruz on Tuesday became the first California county to ban fracking, the latest in a string of moves by local governments in the state to take a stand against the controversial oil and gas producing
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California Drought Losses Half of Estimate on Groundwater
California’s agriculture industry will incur less than half the losses forecast in March from the worst drought on record, after groundwater supplies eased the burden on farmers, a group said. Losses
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Wildfires Worse Due To Man-Made Climate Change, Studies Show
The devastating wildfires scorching Southern California offer a glimpse of a warmer and more fiery future, according to scientists and federal and international reports. In the past three months, at
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In California, Climate Issues Moved to Fore by Governor
Portraying California as the front line of climate change, Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that the effects of man-made global warming were devastating the state, drawing a direct link between climate change
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Several Earthquakes are Bigger Threat to San Francisco Bay Area
For decades, Northern California has been bracing for the "Big One"—an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 or larger expected on one of the many fault zones that snake through the region. But new research suggests
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California governor links wildfire increase to climate change
Drought-stricken California is preparing for its worst wildfire season ever, the state's governor said on Sunday. Governor Jerry Brown told ABC's This Week that the nearly dozen wildfires that this
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California Drought Conditions to Persist Through Summer
California doesn’t have much chance for rain in the next five months, and its best opportunity to break the drought there may hinge on the emergence of an El Nino in the Pacific Ocean this year, U.S. forecasters
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California banking on El Nino to break severe drought
California doesn't have much chance for rain in the next five months, and its best opportunity to break the drought there may hinge on the emergence of an El Nino in the Pacific Ocean this year, US forecasters
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Los Angeles Oil Spill Sends 10,000 Gallons Of Crude Into City Streets
Crews have vacuumed up most of about 10,000 gallons of crude oil that sprayed into Los Angeles streets after a high-pressure pipe burst. Fire Capt. Jaime Moore says oil spilled early Thursday over approximately