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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China Shelves U.S. Solar Project In Trade Row
China's largest solar power plant developer has put a planned $500 million U.S. project on hold over an anti-dumping trade dispute, the company's general manager said on Monday. CECEP Solar Energy Technology
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"Blood Oath" On CO2 Laws To Haunt Australia's
Australia's Senate is set to pass laws on Tuesday putting a national price on carbon emissions, one of the country's most sweeping and divisive economic reforms that have been a decade in the making.
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Nuclear Plant Ammonia Leak Seen As No Threat
Workers were evacuated from a unit at the San Onofre nuclear power plant in California on Tuesday after an ammonia leak, but the incident posed no threat to the public, officials said. Liquid ammonia
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California Eyes Solar Path Around Solyndra Wreckage
California political leaders chose a site near the headquarters of Solyndra to kick off hearings on how the state's growing cleantech industry can proceed in the wake of that solar company's dramatic collapse.
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California Approves Carbon Market Rules
California regulators on Thursday approved final regulations for a carbon market that is one of the biggest U.S. responses to climate change. The state believes the market for greenhouse gases, which
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Toxic fallout as activists challenge strawberry industry's pesticide use
Faced with the potential use of a dangerous pesticide methyl iodide to spray crops in their backyards, a group of Californian teenagers decided to stand up to the might of industrial agribusiness. Rosie
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Large ozone hole over Arctic worries scientists
An ozone hole five times the size of California opened over the Arctic this spring, matching ozone loss over Antarctica for the first time on record, scientists said on Sunday. Formed by a deep chill
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Rapid environmental change over the past decade revealed by isotopic analysis of the California mussel in the Northeast Pacific
The anthropogenic input of fossil fuel carbon into the atmosphere results in increased carbon dioxide (CO2) into the oceans, a process that lowers seawater pH, decreases alkalinity and can inhibit the
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Deadline For Auto Fuel Economy Proposal To Slip
The Obama administration will push back the release of the most ambitious proposal ever for automakers to improve fuel efficiency of their passenger cars, sport utility vehicles and pickups. The U.S.
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Projected evolution of California's San Francisco Bay-delta-river system in a century of climate change
Accumulating evidence shows that the planet is warming as a response to human emissions of greenhouse gases. Strategies of adaptation to climate change will require quantitative projections of how altered