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And the Winner Is … the Slowest! Cargo ships off California are reducing speeds as part of an unusual race designed to protect some very large local residents.
www.nytimes.com And the Winner Is … the Slowest!Cargo ships off California are reducing speeds as part of an unusual race designed to protect some very large local residents.
- www.404media.co 'Local Residents' Terrorizing City Council Meetings Were Actually Overseas, Feds Allege
A racist 'Zoom Bombing' group was made up of American teenagers collaborating on a Roblox-owned chat with foreign nationals, according to a criminal complaint.
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“What’s More Extraordinary and Compelling?” Women who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of guards at a notorious federal prison in California are now seeking compassionate release.
boltsmag.org “What’s More Extraordinary and Compelling?”Women who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of guards at a notorious federal prison in California are now seeking compassionate release.
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California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil Fuels | For part of almost every day this spring, the state produced more electricity than it needed from renewable sources.
www.newyorker.com California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil FuelsFor part of almost every day this spring, the state produced more electricity than it needed from renewable sources.
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- www.404media.co California Apple Manufacturing Facility Has 19 ‘Potential Violations’ of EPA Regulations
A new report by the Environmental Protection Agency suggests that Apple also miscalculated the effectiveness of its hazardous compound air filters.
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San Francisco has seen the most dramatic drop in solar adoption across California
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- www.latimes.com Shasta Indian Nation to get homeland back in largest land return in California history
Gov. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ago and submerged.
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Redlined neighborhoods see less biodiversity than wealthier areas, report says
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California voters lose a shot at checking state and local tax hikes at the polls, would have made it harder to raise taxes
apnews.com California voters lose a shot at checking state and local tax hikes at the pollsSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Gov. Gavin Newsom and removed a measure from the November ballot that would have made it harder to raise taxes, saying the change would have upended the way government works.
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- fortune.com High home prices are 'feudalizing' California as unaffordable housing markets pose existential threat to middle class, study says
There are unaffordable housing markets, and then there are "impossibly unaffordable" markets, four of which are in California, a recent study said.
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- www.latimes.com The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake
Fast-food lobbyists say the higher California minimum wage law led to a loss of nearly 10,000 jobs. The claim is baseless.
- www.ktvu.com New California laws go into effect on July 1
Starting July 1, a batch of new laws will take effect in California, ranging from legislation banning junk fees, to a law designed to prevent victims from getting unknowingly drugged at bars and clubs.
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- calmatters.org Scorching schoolyards: California groups want more trees, less asphalt at schools
Groups push California to plant more trees at schools to protect students from a warming planet. Here’s how they want to pay for it.
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- www.nytimes.com The Mushroom Hunters Can’t Stop Finding Mysterious Fungi
For years, mycologists and hobbyists alike have been using DNA sequencing on foraged fungi.
- calmatters.org California is sitting on millions that could boost wage theft response
Lawmakers and the governor use a fund to plug budget holes, instead of spending more to address California wage theft.
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Biped Wolf Pack Takes Action Against Unprecedented Logging Project
www.indybay.org Biped WOLF PACK TAKES ACTION against unprecedented LOGGING project : IndybayBiped wolf pack takes direct action against unprecedented logging project in Plumas National Forest on National Day of Forest-Climate Action.
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A Decade of California Wildfires Cost 50,000 Lives and Half a Trillion Dollars
> Previous studies have found that the pollution known as PM2.5 (particulate matter of no more than 2.5 microns in diameter), which penetrates our lungs and can cause all sorts of issues, does cause thousands of deaths and billions in damage, across various parts of North America. But no one had looked specifically at California before, where some of the country’s most devastating fires have occurred in recent years. > >The researchers estimated mortality based on acres burned and a “dose-response” analysis of exposure to PM2.5. At the high end of their estimates, the first over their 11-year study window killed 55,710 people.
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CA electricity w PGE is more expensive than electricity in Guam
My friend lives in Guam. Their electric price is around 0.27 per kWh. I'm getting 0.46 - 0.50 per kWh with PGE. How is it cheaper to send refined oil by tanker to a tiny island in the Pacific than it is to get electricity in a state with massive solar, wind installs and multiple refineries? I'm guessing public ownership of the Guam utility is part of the answer.
- lookout.co ‘Many’ arrests as police descend on pro-Palestine encampment at UCSC
Droves of police officers descended on UC Santa Cruz early Friday morning, initiating a standoff with pro-Palestinian supporters, who have blocked off the campus' main entrance since Tuesday.
- baynature.org On the Russian River, a Slow Road to Good Fire - Bay Nature
The Ukiah Valley is getting a $7M federal grant meant to help high-risk communities—and the landscapes surrounding them—become more fire-resilient. The Forest Service says prescribed fire is key. So why aren’t Ukiah and other grantees proposing to do more of it?
- calmatters.org California climate programs would lose billions in Newsom's budget
As funds for climate change programs are cut, Democrats and environmentalists are pushing for a bond measure on the ballot.
- calmatters.org Why UC grad students are going out on strike
The UC strike starting today isn’t about pay, but instead over how UC deployed police to clear pro-Palestinian encampments.
> > > More than 1,500 graduate students, teaching assistants and researchers are expected to walk off the job at UC Santa Cruz today, launching the first labor strike over the University of California’s response to pro-Palestinian protests in the past month. > >
> > > Workers will picket from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the two main roads leading into campus, disrupting package deliveries and transit into the university that’s become a hotbed for labor activity in the past few years. > >
> > > The union, UAW 4811, won approval from its members last week to call for strikes at select campuses throughout the UC. > >
> > > While many work stoppages are over pay and benefits, this one is in response to the union’s anger over the UC’s use of police to clear overnight encampments in support of Palestinians that propped up at multiple campuses. Some union members took part in those protests. The largely peaceful demonstrations sought to put pressure on the university to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, divest from weapons companies and cut various other economic ties to Israel. After Hamas, which governs Gaza, killed an estimated 1,200 people in Israel on Oct. 7, the country waged a military campaign in Gaza that has killed an estimated 35,000 Palestinians. > >
> > > Days after police swept the encampments at UCLA and arrested scores of protesters, the union filed an unfair labor practice violation with a state labor relations agency. The union filed similar violations after police cleared encampments at UC San Diego and UC Irvine that also led to arrests of protesters. > >
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How your dog’s breed could ban you from getting home insurance in California
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- www.nytimes.com Disneyland Character Workers at California Park Vote to Unionize
The vote determined whether 1,700 workers who play characters such as Mickey and Minnie Mouse and who dance at parades could join the union representing other workers at the park in Anaheim, Calif.
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Anxious about the election? Go big for 2024 by teaming up to lead a new grassroots group in your part of California with support and training from Swing Left!
There will be an in-person training in Orange County on June 1 and a virtual training on June 8. Deadline to apply is Sunday, May 19.
- apnews.com California university president put on leave after announcing agreement with pro-Palestinian group
The chancellor of the California State University system has suspended the president of its Sonoma campus for announcing an agreement with pro-Palestinian activists to pursue an academic boycott of Israeli institutions and divestment strategies.
- calmatters.org Gig companies spent $200 million to write their own labor law. The state Supreme Court could throw it out
If CA's Prop. 22 is thrown out, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart classifying gig workers as independent contractors would be in danger.
- itsgoingdown.org A Letter From Black Rose Militants in California Public Universities to Our Colleagues
Open letter from militants within the Black Rose Anarchist Federation to workers at public universities in California. As members of grad student union UAW 4811 across the University of California begin voting in a unfair labor practice strike authorization in response to the encampment crackdown, m...
- electrek.co Oakland is now first in the US to have a 100% electric school bus fleet – and it's V2G
An Oakland, California, school district is now the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with V2G technology.
