California Green News (1 - 10 of 1808)
Valero Spends $500,000 To Kill California Emissions Law
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Valero Energy Corporation has spent $500,000 already in an effort to create a ballot initiative in California that would suspend the Golden State's aggressive climate law, known as AB 32. Valero, which calls San Antonio, Texas, home, has spent the money in part to get the 433,000 signatures required to get the initiative on November's ballot, which would suspend the law unti...Read the full sto...
California Tribe Hopes to Woo Salmon Home
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A trek by the Winnemem Wintu tribe centers on an apology to the Chinook salmon for allowing the Shasta Dam to be built in Northern California in the 1940s.
Science panel says Delta pumping restrictions are justified in California
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A high-level science panel Friday concluded that federal rules that limit water diversions from the Delta to protect endangered fish are "scientifically justified," dealing a blow to south state water interests that had hoped the review would punch holes in the rules.The panel of 15 experts was appointed by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, in response t...
Scientists' report only intensifies delta debate
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The panel's finding that federal protections of smelt and salmon are scientifically justified, but that factors other than pumping could also contribute to their decline, fuels both sides.Any hope that a panel of scientists would end the brawl over environmental restrictions in the hub of California's water system evaporated as warring factions each found ammunition in a report released Friday.
National Academy of Sciences Confirms that Protections for Endangered Salmon and Other Species are “Scientifically Justified”
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Today, the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council (NRC) publicly released its interim report on the science used in the biological opinions protecting salmon, delta smelt, and other endangered fish in California’s Bay-Delta estuary. The NRC’s report confirms that...
Science justifies California water limits
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal limits on water that can be pumped out of a major river delta for California farmers are scientifically justified, a much-anticipated report said on Friday, a finding hailed by environmentalists in the state's epic water wars.
House “Fix” to Jobs Bill Takes $192 Million from California
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Housetransport panel chairman Jim Oberstar's (D-MN) state would lose anestimated $9.5 million under the fix. (Photo: Jonathan Maus)
Nathan Havey: Economic Recovery? Get Off the Fossil Sauce
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This was the week of the Green California Summit in Sacramento, where all of the newest green technologies are on display. Companies like Philips were...
I don't like the smell of this...
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By Alex Formuzis, EWG Director of Communications Driving the ladies wild just became more expensive. Conopco Inc. d/b/a Unilever, the company that makes the popular male body spray AXE, has been fined more than $1 million by California for releasing...
Valero oil firm contributes half-million to suspend AB 32
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A Texas-based oil company has contributed more than half of the nearly $1 million collected in a drive to suspend California's landmark greenhouse-gas emissions law, documents filed Thursday show.
