Contact: Miyoko Sakashita, (415) 632-5308, miyoko@biologicaldiversity.org 26 February 2014 SAN FRANCISCO (CBD) – The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a legal petition urging the Environmental Protection Agency to stop oil and gas companies from dumping toxic chemicals from fracking directly into ocean waters off California. About half the oil platforms in the Santa Barbara […]
Folsom Lake, 20 June 2011 Folsom Lake, 16 January 2014 25 February 2014 (NBC News) – Northern California’s Folsom Lake on 16 January 2014. The reservoir, 25 miles northeast of Sacramento, has shrunk from 97 percent capacity in 2011, to just 17 percent capacity this past January, according to a news release from the […]
By Scott Gold 27 January 2014 CACHUMA LAKE RECREATION AREA, California (Los Angeles Times) – When Jeff Bozarth retired after 20 years as a police officer and signed up as a park ranger here last spring, he knew what to expect and relished every bit of it. Hidden in the folds of the Central Coast […]
20 February 2014By Sean Birkel (climatereanalyzer.org) – Today’s 7-day forecast from the GFS model shows another sizable bubble of cold air that will develop and waft down from the Arctic over the North American middle latitudes (Figure 1). Relatively warm air will invade the Arctic in its place. At first glance, it appears this latest […]
By Terrell Johnson 18 February 2014 (weather.com) – When he was asked last March to name the nation’s biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region, U.S. Navy Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III gave a response many people didn’t expect: climate change. “People are surprised sometimes,” he said in an interview with the Boston Globe, […]
By Sharon Bernstein; Editing by Richard Borsuk18 February 2014 SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – California’s drought has put 10 communities at acute risk of running out of drinking water in 60 days, and worsened numerous other health and safety problems, public health officials in the most populous U.S. state said on Tuesday. Rural communities where residents […]
By Paul Rogers15 February 2014 (San Jose Mercury News) – Fourteen months into a historic drought, with reservoirs running low and the Sierra snowpack 27 percent of normal, a growing number of Californians are wondering: Why isn’t everyone being forced to ration? So far, Gov. Jerry Brown and most major water providers, from the Bay […]
By Diana Marcum and Evan Halper February 14, 2014, 9:14 p.m. FIREBAUGH, California (Los Angeles Times) – Standing Friday afternoon on cracked, parched earth where melons would usually grow, President Obama brought both a message of aid and an ominous warning to drought-stricken California as he outlined more than $160 million in federal assistance. The […]
By John Upton13 Februry 2014 (Grist) – The coal power industry has dumped a lot of toxic crap into yet another river. This latest incident is not to be confused with the spill of toxic coal-cleaning chemicals that poisoned a West Virginia river last month and left 300,000 people without drinking water. Nor is it […]
February 2014 (UCS) – Back in 2012, after the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the National Review each published pieces that likened climate scientist Michael E. Mann to a child molester and called his work a fraud, Mann fought back with a lawsuit, charging them with libel. Now, in a preliminary ruling, a Superior Court Judge […]
