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Bill seeks to boost state's safeguards against oil spills
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In response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, California lawmakers are looking to strengthen the state's oil spill prevention requirements.
Donnie Fowler: Prop23: Who Needs BP When You've Got the Koch Brothers to Overturn California's Climate & Energy Laws?
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OPPONENTS OF PROP23 IN CALIFORNIA FACE A DAUNTING NEW OPPONENT San Francisco, September 2 Late Thursday night, those who support progress on climate & energy...
Audit finds PG&E smart meters accurate, faults customer service
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Independent review ordered by California utility commission finds meters are accurate but that utility PG&E has not handled technology roll-out well.
Lisa Kaas Boyle: California Drops the Ball on Plastic Bag Ban
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Why is it that the average American hasn't yet come to associate single-use plastic bags with the terrible environmental and economic toll these bags exact?
American Samoa Becomes First U.S. Territory to Ban Plastic Bags
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With California’s proposed statewide ban on plastic bags swept aside as collateral damage of the state’s broken political system, American Samoa emerged as the first U.S. state or territory to ban plastic bags at all retail stores. The landmark bill was signed into law last week and will take effect on February 23rd of 2011.Read [...]
American Somoa Becomes First U.S. Territory to Ban Plastic Bags
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With California’s proposed statewide ban on plastic bags swept aside as collateral damage of the state’s broken political system, American Somoa emerged as the first U.S. state or territory to ban plastic bags at all retail stores. The landmark bill was signed into law last week and will take effect on February 23rd of 2011.Read [...]
California Bombs on Plastic Bag Ban
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Photo by TaberandrewDespite San Francisco leading the way on banning plastic bags back in 2007, California senators rejected a proposed plan to ban plastic bags statewide. The measure to remove carryout plastic bags from supermarkets, drug stores and convenience shops would have taken effect by July 2012 in larger stores, and 2013 in smaller stores, and it would have made California the first s...
Environmentalists stunned by failures of key measures in Legislature
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Environmentalists were counting on big gains in Sacramento this summer, with a governor eager to burnish his green credentials in his final months in office. But by the time the legislative session ended at midnight Tuesday, those hopes had fizzled.
Will Texas oil firms succeed in undoing California greenhouse gas laws?
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LOS ANGELES -- A bit of a propaganda war is heating up in California over Proposition 23, a citizen's initiative which could suspend the state's landmark greenhouse gas reduction law.
Will Texas oil firms succeed in undoing California greenhouse gas laws? (The Christian Science Monitor)
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The Christian Science Monitor - A bit of a propaganda war is heating up in California over Proposition 23, a citizen’s initiative which could suspend the state’s landmark greenhouse gas reduction law.
