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WWII Munitions, DDT Remain on Southern California Seafloor

SAN DIEGO, California, January 7, 2024 (ENS) – Tons of munitions, petrochemicals, chemicals from manufacturing the pesticide DDT, and other hazardous materials were dumped for decades in deep ocean basins off the coast of Los Angeles, scientists from three California universities are discovering. […]

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IDAHO: Execs Indicted for Firefighting Fuel Truck Wire Fraud

BOISE, Idaho, December 19, 2023 (ENS) – After a court-authorized wiretap investigation, a federal grand jury in Boise, Idaho, this week charged two executives of competing companies with conspiring to rig bids for forest firefighting contracts and allocate territories in violation of the Sherman Act. […]

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California Sues Big Oil for Decades of Climate Deception

OAKLAND, California, September 18, 2023 (ENS) – Alleging decades-long campaigns of deception and statewide climate change-related damage in California, the State Friday filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest oil and gas companies: Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP, and the trade association the American Petroleum Institute. […]

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A ‘Critical Moment’ for the Colorado River

WASHINGTON, DC, May 23, 2023 (ENS) – The Colorado River flows for 1,450 miles across the western United States, carving the Grand Canyon on the way, and into Mexico, where it once flowed to the Gulf of California. Now, after years of drought and human pressure, the Colorado River just disappears into desert sands. […]

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Atmospheric River Nears California, Escalates Storm Emergency

SACRAMENTO, California, March 9, 2023 (ENS) – Knowing that a series of storms are forecast to continue blowing across California through mid-March, and an atmospheric river event is predicted for later this week, Governor Gavin Newsom Wednesday proclaimed a state of emergency to support storm response and relief efforts in 21 additional counties including San Francisco. […]

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Cyclone Bomb, Atmospheric River Soak California, Kill Two

SACRAMENTO, California, January 7, 2023 (ENS) – What the National Weather Service calls an “incessant parade of storms” continues to batter California with heavy rain, damaging winds, and heavy snow. Flooding, rapid river rises, mudslides, and burn scar flash floods or debris flows all are possible in the week ahead, the NWS predicts. […]

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Solar Power Extended to 116,000 More California Homes

PALM SPRINGS, California, August 15, 2022 (ENS) – The Palen Solar Project, a 457-megawatt photovoltaic facility in Riverside County, California, has reached full power operation, the Department of the Interior has announced. The project – which will supply enough energy to power approximately 116,000 homes and includes 50 megawatts of battery storage – helps lower energy costs for families and bring about a clean energy, carbon-free future. […]

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Offshore Winds Blow Everywhere

BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 23, 2022 (ENS) – “Offshore wind has the biggest growth potential of any renewable energy technology, but the policy environment needs to improve rapidly for offshore wind to reach international net zero targets,” the Brussels-based Global Wind Energy Council said in its latest Offshore Wind Report 2021. […]

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Undersea Volcano Erupts in Tonga, Triggering Pacific Tsunami

HONOLULU, Hawaii, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – A tsunami advisory was issued across the Pacific for the coasts of Australia, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington after an undersea volcano erupted Friday night in the Tonga Islands, sending huge tsunami waves breaking onshore and people scrambling to higher ground. […]