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Staples Center and the L.A. Kings have joined with an El Segundo startup to sell a new techology that pulls water out of the air — water so pure that it freezes into high-quality ice. The technology also helps cut the arena's energy costs and makes hockey-watching a less chilling experience. 
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In one of its most aggressive moves yet against Obama-era climate action, the Trump administration announced it is tearing up landmark fuel economy rules pushing automakers to manufacture cleaner burning cars and SUVs. The move invites a major battle with California and a dozen other states.
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California may be a leader in climate policies, but much of its abundant oil reserves are nearly as carbon-intensive to extract and refine as Alberta tar sands crude. Many experts now say that reform of the state’s methods of producing oil is long overdue.
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An explosion Saturday at a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power plant in the San Fernando Valley caused a major fire and knocked out electricity to 140,000 customers.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Yet another argument of a distributed, battery/storage-based electrical grid.
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During this deadly year for the so-called Killer Kern, the county has relied on two teams of about 50 trained volunteers to save swimmers
PIRatE Lab's insight:
These dynamic flows with high year-to-year variability in this era of a changing climate bode a world with many more such deaths.
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Cadiz seeks to create a loophole in an 1875 railroad law to drain an ancient desert aquifer without any federal oversight.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Draining aquifers is something we are supposedly trying to put into the past her win California. Not greenlighting with federal nepotism.
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By Bob Wing Oil has been a source of tremendous wealth for Los Angeles, but the city’s 1,071 active oil wells also pose serious health risks for the nearly 628,000 Angelenos who live near them. That’s why residents and environmental justice organizations ar
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HANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Knee-high tufts of grass dot the streets of Hardwick, a rural neighborhood with a few dozen homes hemmed in by vineyards and walnut and almond orchards …
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Overdrafting of our aquifers went beyond anything that we can reasonably recover from for many in California's Central Valley this past few years.
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Hear from the kids of Wilmington, California, who grow up in the shadow of oil wells. This video, second in the series of Stop Fooling California, tells the story of urban oil extraction in Los Angeles. Via pdeppisch
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An explosion and fire at an oil refinery in Torrance, California, on Saturday forced the partial shutdown of the plant, leading oil traders to expect a spike
PIRatE Lab's insight:
These complex chemical engineering plants are always a potential accident waiting to happen. This same plant in Torrance Los Angeles had a huge problem about two years ago that drove a several month reduction in capacity and associated gasoline supply disruption for much of southern California.
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A confidential Federal Railroad Administration report, obtained by The Times, reveals that California's troubled high-speed rail system faces more significant delays and a 50% cost overrun.
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Californians are likely to pay more for gasoline, electricity, food and new homes — and to feel their lives jolted in myriad other ways — because their state broadly expanded its war on climate change this summer. The ambitious new goals will require complex regulations on an unprecedente
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Glenn Bland owns the state's (and possibly the nation's) only solar power store with a full showroom. He in fact, he has three and growing.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The fact this store is in one of the highest oil-producing areas of California is telling.
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State commission approves plan, saying consumer energy savings would outweigh higher building costs
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California regulators want Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to replace three natural-gas fueled plants with energy storage to help meet reliability needs, saying clean energy alternatives can solve demand concerns.
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Imagine a California future where fossil fuels are never used to generate electricity. That's a proposal lawmakers are considering now. What would it take to hit that goal?
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In a swipe at Trump, Gov. Jerry Brown told climate activists Thursday he'll convene an international summit on global warming in San Francisco in 2018.
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From
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The fruit-bearing plants were installed by the art collective Fallen Fruit.
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There's a lot of ideas out there for changing the cap-and-trade program. Here are the highlights.
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ST. HELENA, Calif. — The Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) nonprofit trade association announced today it has reached an important sustainability milestone: 50 percent of its eligible members (those who own a …
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California has the largest economy in the US. It's also the state with the most immigrants. These two facts are not unrelated, but the way immigrants build that economy is complex.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This story starts with an example from right here in Ventura County and the complex relationship between immigrants and our national economy. This is an important part of the picture, but we should also note that there are other aspects to the story: justice, freedom, and the character of a nation welcoming to the rest of the world.
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It almost looks like a post-earthquake photo. The park, which logged more than 5 million visitors last year, continues to deal with fallout from the rain.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The face of climate change...
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Take a flight in the Luscombe over the Oroville Spillway just prior to overtopping.
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
February 12, 2017 1:10 PM
Climate change is giving us both increased droughts and increased rainfall events in climate crazy California. Both of these situations have been long predicted, driven by the unprecedented anthropogenic greenhouse gas build-up in our atmosphere. Oroville is the tallest dam in the United States and (thanks to the intense precipitation this year) the focus of national attention and concern over infrastructure in the wake of a climate changed world. The most recent estimate pegs the repair of the eroding concrete channel at perhaps $100-200 million (and we are only in early February). See also these refs: nice overview/explanation of the current conditions at the dam: https://youtu.be/jIzldNLv8ww erosion video: https://youtu.be/d56oKCmjMHM Agency update: https://youtu.be/P87mjrohSpk Construction of the Oroville Dam: https://youtu.be/p_5udzKfLQM
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California's birth rate drops to a historic low as more people attend college and delay having kids.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is a key, but longterm, change in our population dynamics. This should not be read as a declining population per se as we have lots of migration bringing folks into the state. Immigration more than offsets our declining birth rates and any emigration.
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The Los Angeles Zoo will celebrate its 50th anniversary Monday.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
For all their controversy in some quarters, zoos and aquaria clearly played an important role in shaping the public attitude towards wildlife and our greater environment, particularly in the 18th century and in the immediate wake of WWII.
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