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Can old oil fields be used to slow global warming? First California plan nears approval

Source of this article, The Los Angeles TImes, January 15, 2024 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has signed off on a California oil company’s plans to permanently store carbon emissions deep underground to combat global warming — the first proposal of its kind to be tentatively approved in the state. Read more…

By Steve, 1 year ago
Budget and Spending

Santa Barbara County on Its Way to 100 Percent Renewable Energy by 2030

Central Coast Community Energy Gives Progress Report to Board of Supervisors Source of this article, the Santa Barbara Independent, May 10, 2023 Whatever else the rest of the world is doing, Santa Barbara County is on the way to 60 percent renewable energy by 2025 and 100 percent by 2030, Read more…

By Steve, 2 yearsMay 10, 2023 ago
Budget and Spending

California’s race against time to build power lines

Building out the state’s electric grid to meet climate change goals won’t be fast or cheap. Source of this article, the Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2023. Want to live in a world where heat waves stop getting hotter, wildfires stop getting bigger, water shortages stop getting more severe and Read more…

By Steve, 2 yearsApril 10, 2023 ago
Energy Use

Santa Barbara County to Get New Green Energy Technology

Compressed Air Could Be the Missing Link to Carbon-Free Electricity Source of this article: The Santa Barbara Independent, February 1, 2023 If all goes according to a new $774 million deal struck with a Canadian green energy company, most Santa Barbara County electrical customers could find themselves relying on compressed Read more…

By Steve, 2 yearsFebruary 1, 2023 ago
Budget and Spending

Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change

Patagonia made him a billionaire. Now he’s giving it away to save the climate Source of this article: the Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2022 Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is giving his company away — to planet Earth, he announced Wednesday. “I never wanted to be a businessman,” Chouinard wrote Read more…

By Steve, 3 yearsSeptember 14, 2022 ago
Energy Use

The Lompoc Strauss Wind Farm: Santa Barbara Is Well on the Way to 100 Percent Renewable Electricity

Source of this article: The Santa Barbara Independent, June 23, 2022. A small group of us had the privilege of recently touring the Strauss Wind Energy Project in Lompoc while it is under construction. It is the first and only wind project permitted anywhere along the California coast. From the Read more…

By Steve, 3 yearsJune 23, 2022 ago
Energy Use

Carbon Dioxide Level Passes Long-Feared Milestone

Atmospheric reading at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa tops what some say is a crisis point. Source of this article: The New York Times, May 10, 2014 The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not Read more…

By Steve, 12 yearsMay 10, 2013 ago
Budget and Spending

State Parks Get New Chief

Former Maj. Gen. Anthony L. Jackson will take over as director of the state Parks and Recreation Department, which was rocked by a financial scandal last summer. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2012 Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday tapped a decorated retired Marine Corps officer Read more…

By Steve, 13 yearsNovember 14, 2012 ago
Budget and Spending

Thousand Oaks’ second solar installation up and running

The area’s recent hot spell may be sending residents running for shade, but the sunny skies are also fueling the city’s newest solar panel installation. Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, September 6, 2012 Completed in June atop the Hillcrest Center—home to the Conejo Recreation and Park District, Read more…

By Steve, 13 yearsSeptember 6, 2012 ago
California

‘Fracking’ oil extraction method widely used in California with little oversight

Regulators and lawmakers know very little about how and where oil companies employ hydraulic fracturing in the state. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2012 Energy companies across California are injecting a mysterious mix of chemicals into the ground to tap oil deposits while frustrating attempts Read more…

By Steve, 13 yearsMarch 14, 2012 ago

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