Source of this article, the Los Angeles Times, May 19, 2024 California will receive more than $35 million in federal funding to help address the scourge of abandoned oil wells that are leaking dangerous chemicals and planet-warming methane in areas across the state, including many in Los Angeles. The investment Read more…
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…
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…
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…
The long-depleted Colorado River is getting a boost from the largest snowpack since 1997. Rising reservoirs offer some relief amid talks on needed water cuts. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2023 Four months ago, the outlook for the Colorado River was so dire that federal Read more…
Flooded Central Valley fields are being used to replenish groundwater Source of this article, the Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2023 As storms have drenched Northern California, water diverted from the swollen Sacramento River has been flowing from a canal and pouring onto 200 acres of farmland. For more than Read more…
Storm-ravaged Californians are still digging out from historic levels of snowfall and girding for more heavy rain this week. But Biden administration officials are looking ahead to a wildfire season that could bring more devastation once the state dries out. Vice President Kamala Harris detailed $197 million in new federal Read more…
Diverting the liquid assets Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2023 With torrential rains drenching California, state water regulators have endorsed a plan to divert floodwaters from the San Joaquin River to replenish groundwater that has been depleted by heavy agricultural pumping during three years of Read more…
The Colorado river is the lifeblood of the US Southwest, but today it is drastically depleted due to overuse, megadrought and climate change. Here’s how to rescue it. Source of this article, New Scientist, November 22, 2023 “The river was nowhere and everywhere,” wrote naturalist Aldo Leopold of the Colorado Read more…
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…