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On that clean water thing, call me back in four years, OK?
In a strange but typical story, the EPA has announced an initiative to remove from drinking water such dangerous chemicals as perchlorate (a component of rocket fuel, explosives, and fireworks that...
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Saddling up the Iron Horse in California
In what may be another windfall for California’s high speed rail project, Florida officials, led by that state’s governor yesterday rejected almost $2.5 billion in federal matching funds for a high...
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Monday wakeup call: Fracking dangers demand immediate action and new attitude
Two different reportorial and editorial approaches to the fraught question of fracking — one from Abrahm Lustgarten in ProPublica and one from Ian Urbina in the New York Times — together make it clear...
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Progress on “perc” won’t take cleaners . . . to the cleaners
A stringent California regulation phasing out the use of a toxic chemical by dry cleaners, has received crucial approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, reports Susan Carpenter of the...
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From Fukushima to Diablo Canyon, it’s a small world . . . with a lot of...
With an emergency back up cooling system inadvertently disabled, Pacific Gas & Electric’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant was in a highly vulnerable condition for a year and a half, reports David...
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Will California reach down deeper for renewable energy sources?
Tidal Farm Less than five months after California voters strongly rejected a Republican effort to neuter the state’s commitment to renewable energy, the California legislature doubled down yesterday,...
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High speed rail funding leaves one coast for the other
A major windfall in federal funding offered to Florida for a new high speed rail effort, just might end up in America’s other sand-and-sun tourist destination — California. Arguing that local matching...
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Raptor deaths dirty California’s cleanest energy source
Federal wildlife conservation officials have launched an inquest into the deaths of protected birds at a California wind farm, Louis Sahagun of the Los Angeles Times reports, highlighting a potentially...
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