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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Parched California moves to boost water saving toilets, faucets
With California facing its worst drought in a century, state officials have fast-tracked first-in-the-nation water efficiency standards for new toilets, urinals and faucets, an action expected to save
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Hollywood heavyweights put climate change manifesto on TV
As temperatures continue to rise and habitats come under threat, a group of Hollywood heavyweights is seeking to bring the spotlight back on climate change with a new documentary. "Years of Living Dangerously,"
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Endangered butterfly defies climate change with new diet and habitat
Quino checkerspot, native to Mexico and California, shifts to higher altitude and chooses new species of plant for laying eggs A butterfly species whose population collapsed because of climate change
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Anadarko Petroleum settles U.S.-wide clean-up case for $5.15 billion
Energy company Anadarko Petroleum Corp agreed on Thursday to pay more than $5 billion to clean up areas across the United States polluted by nuclear fuel, wood creosote and rocket fuel waste that caused
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Nasa measures snowpack in response to California drought
In a new mission, Nasa fixed a lumbering twin-engine plane with high-tech equipment to make regular snow surveys, starting last weekend in drought-stricken California before the weather front expected
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Powerful earthquake strikes off North California coast
Officials say a powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Sunday night off the coast of Northern California, but there were no early signs of a tsunami. The US Geological Survey says the temblor struck
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Obama Seeks to Boost Resilience to Climate-Driven Drought, Fires
President Barack Obama, who has vowed to make fighting global warming a focus of his remaining years in office, yesterday unveiled initiatives to mitigate what aides say are the effects of an already changing
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Google, Adobe and eBay innovate to save water in drought-hit California
Silicon Valley companies are employing low and high tech measures, from robotics to 'hydrozoning', to help save water As weather reports suggest some light relief for California from the record-breaking
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NASA to use space images to help monitor California drought
NASA scientists plan to use images shot from space and within the Earth's atmosphere to help California monitor one of the worst droughts in its recorded history, officials said on Tuesday. Scientists
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California senators float post-2020 climate change bill
Two California state senators released a bill on Wednesday that would give regulators the authority to design a plan to meet the state's long-term greenhouse gas reduction goals and improve air quality