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It Is Unfair to Valley for State Not to Count Hydroelectric Power as Renewable Energy

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Looking for fairness? Better consult a map if you’re in California.

For many living along the coast, it’s considered “fair” to make electricity more expensive in the name of fighting climate change. For people who rarely need an air conditioner, the added expense is a small sacrifice. For those living inland, where temperatures top 100 degrees eight, nine or even 30 days a year, that sacrifice is far greater.

In several Bay Area communities, where median incomes are double to nearly triple those found in adjacent Valley counties, fat incentives to purchase a $75,000 electric car seem justifiable. But in the northern San Joaquin Valley, where 85,000 people commute to the Bay Area every day, such incentives would have to quadruple to make electric cars affordable.

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California Sheriff’s Office Helps Bear Family Rescue Cub Trapped in Dumpster

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A baby bear, who moved from picnic baskets to something bigger, found themselves stuck on Tuesday morning.

According to a post on the Placer County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, a baby bear got stuck in a dumpster outside a Kings Beach, California motel.

The sheriff’s office received a call about the incident and sent out several deputies to help the confined cub. When the deputies arrived, they found the cub’s mother and sibling trying to open the dumpster themselves.

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Moderate Mag. 5.0 Earthquake – 18km E of Little Lake, CA (USA) on Thursday, 22 August 2019 – 17 Hours Ago

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“I Felt It” Reports:
(132.4 km WSW from epicenter) [Map] / not felt: Did not feel it or hear it or see it. Was in my basement workshop and didn’t have any idea that there was an earthquake until I got off later and checked my notifications. Lol Coworkers on the ground floor also did not feel it. (via app)
North Wales / not felt: People in CA need to stay alert and be ready..definitly a slow slip happening but worse to come.. you can thank the greedy elites for the millions of holes from the drilling stations .. they drilled on both sides of the San Andreas fault line too..
Lake Isabella, CA / MMI III (Weak shaking)
Wofford Heights / MMI IV (Light shaking): I was blasting my music while sitting when this quake hit. It was a shock and scared the shite out of me at first. It hit with a strong jolt followed by some strong back and forth shifting. Everything in the house had a slight rattle.
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Report: ‘Swamp Rats’ (Aka Nutria) Invade California Town and Threaten to ‘Overrun’ the Area

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Swamp rats, troublesome rodents typically known as nutria in Louisiana, are causing problems in central California, threatening to damage levees, disrupt the state’s water supply and knock an area river delta ecosystem out of balance, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The report says that California’s “reliance on expansive waterways connected to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta make the state especially vulnerable.”

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Map: California’s Biggest Wildfire Only 10 Percent Contained

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The biggest wildfire burning in California grew by 3,000 acres on Tuesday, and crews are bracing for hotter, windier conditions later this week.

The Tucker Fire, in Modoc County, was at 14,217 acres (22 square miles) and 10 percent contained at 6 a.m. Wednesday. At that time, management was handed over to the California interagency fire team.

After an explosive Monday, the spread slowed down and was largely holding within Tuesday’s fire lines. The Wednesday morning report said that, given a forecast of stronger winds and hotter, drier conditions toward the end of the week, crews will prioritize strengthening lines on the northwest and southeast parts of the perimeter.

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Pair of Weekend Fires

There were a couple of fires of note in the region as temperatures are rising this season. There was a

California, Wary of More Wildfires, Is Paying for Them Already

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CLEARLAKE, Calif. — Two thousand homes lost and two-thirds of the land burned: The residents of Lake County, a sparsely populated area north of Napa Valley, understand better than most the devastating cost of wildfires in recent years.

Yet few people in Lake County, or in many other fire-prone parts of California, could have anticipated the millions they are now spending this summer on wildfires, even before the first big one ignites.

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Pair of Weekend Fires

There were a couple of fires of note in the region as temperatures are rising this season. There was a

California Shouldn’t Ignore Hydropower in Climate Change Fight

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Is the cleanest, greenest electricity in the world green enough for California?

For years, the people of the northern San Joaquin Valley have been trying to get hydropower recognized for what it is: the original source of clean electricity. Our efforts have been stymied by people who feel entitled to decide what is, or isn’t, green enough.

That’s why I have begun the process of modifying our state Constitution to recognize safe, abundant, carbon-free hydropower as a reliable source of renewable energy in our fight against climate change

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California Today: How Polluted Is Your Beach? Here Are the 10 Worst

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It’s supposed to be hot this weekend across Southern California, which means you may be considering a trip to your favorite beach.

But before you plunge into the water, you might consult the environmental advocacy group Heal the Bay’s Beach Report Card, which evaluates water quality and pollution levels at 500 of the state’s beaches.

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