‘Explosive’ Wildfires Ar...

Apr 26, 2015 by

‘Explosive’ Wildfires Are Already Out Of Control Months Before Fire Season

[Translate] by Samantha Page  CLIMATE PROGRESS California’s firefighters are bracing for a long summer. CREDIT: AP Photo/Marcio Jose...

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How to Save Water, the Califor...

Apr 24, 2015 by

How to Save Water, the Californian Way (Part 2)

[Translate]  The Dirt Contributor For the past century, much of California has relied on an inherently fragile and unreliable...

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California drought water-use r...

Apr 18, 2015 by

California drought water-use rules could force 36% reduction on Beverly Hills

[Translate] The Guardian California Officials introduce proposals for different cities and counties, backed up with heavy potential...

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The ExxonMobil Explosion That ...

Apr 18, 2015 by

The ExxonMobil Explosion That Nobody Is Talking About

[Translate] The aftermath of an explosion at the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance, California. NBC News/Screenshot by Sacha Feinman...

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How America’s Theme Parks Kill...

Apr 11, 2015 by

How America’s Theme Parks Kill Our Souls

[Translate] Sonali Kolhatkar  TRUTHDIG By Sonali Kolhatkar   A display at Legoland in Carlsbad, Calif. (Sonali Kolhatkar) Each year...

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How to Save Water, the Califor...

Apr 9, 2015 by

How to Save Water, the Californian Way

[Translate]  The Dirt Contributor California is a big state. To offer water saving techniques for Californians, we first need to...

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How Peer Pressure Can Really M...

Apr 9, 2015 by

How Peer Pressure Can Really Make People Save Water

[Translate] Environment Levying fines also works. By Francie Diep / Pacific Standard V IA ALTERNET Photo Credit: Eric Norris/Flickr...

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L.A. just called. It says go f...

Apr 9, 2015 by

L.A. just called. It says go find another dystopia.

[Translate] Mulling it Over By Heather Smith GRIST In 10 years, Los Angeles plans to reduce per capita water use by 22.5 percent. It...

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Republicans Are Saying Environ...

Apr 9, 2015 by

Republicans Are Saying Environmentalists Caused California’s Drought. Here’s Why They’re Wrong

[Translate] CLIMATE PROGRESS by Ari Phillips Californian artist Ross Dickinson dramatized his home state’s eternal confrontation of...

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Exposing the Meat IndustryR...

Apr 7, 2015 by

Exposing the Meat Industry’s Major Role in Causing California’s Water Crisis

[Translate] Environment A documentary contends livestock is the leading cause of deforestation, hospital water consumption and...

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California’s Drought in Perspe...

Apr 7, 2015 by

California’s Drought in Perspective

[Translate] THE DIRT by Jared Green Scientists are calling the current wave of drought, try which began to spread across California,...

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CALIFORNIA DREAM MEETS REALITY

Apr 4, 2015 by

CALIFORNIA DREAM MEETS REALITY

[Translate]   Homes in Rancho Mirage, Calif., in the Coachella Valley. Gov. Jerry Brown has ordered a 25 percent statewide reduction...

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What the Frack Is Happening? A...

Mar 30, 2015 by

[Translate] Fracking From the aggressive anti-fracking moves in Maryland to a statewide ban in New York, the anti-fracking movement...

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Solar panel owners and utiliti...

Mar 29, 2015 by

[Translate] David Crummey By Tim McDonnell  grist This story is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Solar...

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California Water Wars: Another...

Mar 25, 2015 by

[Translate]   By Ellen Brown, The Web of Debt Blog | News Analysis In California’s epic drought, wars over water rights...

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Snowboarder Living the Off-Gri...

Mar 23, 2015 by

Snowboarder Living the Off-Grid Dream

[Translate] David Friedlander Architecture A couple decades ago, snowboarder Mike Basich did what few are able to: he went pro,...

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To Solve California’s Water Cr...

Mar 21, 2015 by

[Translate] Sonali Kolhatkar  TRUTHDIG   Irrigation water running along a dried-up ditch between rice farms in Richvale, check Calif....

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California has about one year ...

Mar 17, 2015 by

California has about one year of water left. Will you ration now?

[Translate] Op-Ed California has about one year of water left. Will you ration now? Caption NASA scientist’s dire drought...

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SAVE THE HUMANS

Mar 9, 2015 by

SAVE THE HUMANS

[Translate] MobyDJ, singer-songwriter and musician A few years ago, I was talking with Al Gore (yes, I’m name dropping). I...

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California Orders Oil Companie...

Mar 5, 2015 by

California Orders Oil Companies To Stop Drilling Near Drinking Water Supplies

[Translate]   by Ari Phillips  CLIMATE PROGRESS A pumpjack operates on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, in Bakersfield, Calif. CREDIT:...

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California communities seize c...

Feb 28, 2015 by

California communities seize control of their energy futures

[Translate] Shutterstock CCA, OMG By David Roberts  GRIST An energy revolution is breaking out in California and a few other states,...

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Health Concerns Mount After Re...

Feb 27, 2015 by

Health Concerns Mount After Refinery Explosion Coats California City With White Ash

[Translate] by Emily Atkin & Sacha Feinman CLIMATE PROGRESS The aftermath of an explosion at the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance,...

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Guess Which “LiberalR...

Feb 19, 2015 by

Guess Which “Liberal” State Has 500 Laws Aimed at Oppressing the Homeless?

[Translate]   On the heels of a damning new report, the Right to Rest campaign pushes for statewide legislation to stop...

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Fracking Flowback From Califor...

Feb 19, 2015 by

Fracking Flowback From California Oil Wells Contains High Levels Of Carcinogenic Chemicals

[Translate] Fracking Water used in fracking is not disposed of in a cautious manner. By Mike Gaworecki / DeSmogBlog  VIA ALTERNET...

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Like a Bad Neighbor, Chevron I...

Feb 17, 2015 by

Like a Bad Neighbor, Chevron Is There: How the Oil Company Undermines Community Safety

[Translate]   The Aug. 6, 2012, fire at Chevron’s Richmond, Calif., refinery was the latest in a long list of failures. By Leo...

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FRACK-HAPPY OKLAHOMA IS THE RE...

Feb 14, 2015 by

FRACK-HAPPY OKLAHOMA IS THE REIGNING EARTHQUAKE CAPITAL OF THE U.S.

[Translate] Move over, buy California Lindsay Abrams SALON.COM If you want to truly understand the extent to which Oklahoma’s...

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DROUGHT-STRICKEN CALIFORNIA LE...

Feb 8, 2015 by

DROUGHT-STRICKEN CALIFORNIA LET OIL COMPANIES INJECT WASTE INTO DRINKABLE WATER SOURCES

[Translate]   by Emily Atkin  CLIMATE PROGRESS The drought crippling California is by some measures the worst in the state’s...

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Utility To Allow Customers To ...

Feb 6, 2015 by

Utility To Allow Customers To Receive All Their Electricity From Community Solar

[Translate] Katie Valentine  CLIMATE PROGRESS   CREDIT: Shutterstock Customers who get their electricity from Pacific Gas and...

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Dianne Feinstein’s Husba...

Jan 19, 2015 by

Dianne Feinstein’s Husband’s Real Estate Firm Poised to Make $1 Billion Selling Post Offices

[Translate] Washington business model: spouses spot deals with huge upsides. By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet January 19, 2015 Photo...

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Don’t panic! Fukushima radiati...

Jan 7, 2015 by

Don’t panic! Fukushima radiation just hit the West Coast

[Translate] Shutterstock By Amelia Urry GRIST Nuclear energy gives plenty of people the heebie-jeebies: Like horror-movie ghosts and...

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