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Jerry Brown eases up on push to revamp California's environmental law
SACRAMENTO — As Gov. Jerry Brown toured China over the last week, he repeatedly contrasted that nation's speedy construction of modern transportation systems and other key public works with what he characterized as a lack of vision back home. A...
Tags: Construction, Darrell Steinberg, Energy Saving, Lawyers, Justice System
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It's lights out as UCLA enacts tobacco ban on Earth Day
Heija Yan took a drag from his cigarette as he approached Powell Library on the UCLA campus Monday, not noticing the ashtrays were empty and askew. The graduate student in electrical engineering had no idea the university had enacted its tobacco ban...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Environmental Pollution, University of California, Los Angeles, Arts and Culture, Earth Day
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Surge in bomb squad calls, 'suspicious packages' since Boston
Someone calls a television station and makes a bomb threat, causing a phalanx of police to race to the scene. It’s a hoax. Someone sees a package they think is a bomb, temporarily shuttering a city hall over terrorism fears. It’s a fake....
Tags: AEG, Michael Jackson, Conservation, Television Industry, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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McManus: A tax everyone can love
The chairmen of Congress' primary tax committees, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), have launched a bipartisan effort to reform our messy, inefficient federal tax law. They've agreed to look for ways to lower tax rates on both...
Tags: Bob Inglis, Primaries, John McCain, George W. Bush, Energy Saving
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It's Earth Day! Here are 7 ways to honor the planet
Happy Earth Day! It’s been 43 years since Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson celebrated the very first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. It’s not yet a federal holiday, but Earth Day is celebrated by schoolkids from coast to coast (along with many...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Earth Day, Ecosystems, Muhammad Ali, Entertainment Events
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McManus: Obama's war on red tape
Here are three things the Obama administration has done that you probably didn't know about: Ever struggle with those accordion-style rubber sleeves on nozzles at the gas station? The sleeve — technically a "vapor recovery nozzle" — was...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Ronald Reagan, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Nursing
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Sens. Feinstein and Boxer keep racking up seniority
WASHINGTON — Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer have served longer together than any other pair of California senators — 20 years — and will soon replace Iowa's team as the current longest-serving tandem. In a chamber where the...
Tags: Weaponry, Daniel Inouye, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Immigration, Dianne Feinstein
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Cap-and-trade programs in California and Quebec to merge
SACRAMENTO — California's air quality officials soon may be adding a new phrase to their bureaucratic vocabulary: "le rechauffement climatique." That's French for global warming. The California Air Resources Board on Friday linked its program...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Conservation, Global Change, Jerry Brown, Ecosystems
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Bullet train authority settles Central Valley environmental suit
A lawsuit alleging that approval of the high-speed rail system’s first sections in the Central Valley violated state environmental laws was settled Thursday, eliminating a legal obstacle that could have delayed construction. A Sacramento County...
Tags: Justice System, Transportation, Trials, Judges, Railway Transportation
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California hasn't spent safe-drinking-water funds, EPA says
California has failed to spend $455 million in federal safe-drinking-water funds and isn't adequately managing the program that administers the money, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials said. "Nearly half a billion dollars that could be...Tags: Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Politics, Water
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LAPD's 'magic number' of 10,000 officers losing some luster
In 1989, then-Los Angeles Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky unveiled an audacious plan to boost the city police force by more than 25% to 10,000 officers. He couldn't have imagined that city leaders would chase that goal for nearly a quarter of a century...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Zev Yaroslavsky, Murder, Wendy Greuel, Los Angeles International Airport
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Coastal commissioner resigns after Vietnam 'carpet bombing' remark
A state coastal commissioner who vocally supported banning beach bonfires along a stretch of Orange County coastline has resigned under growing pressure from two state legislators. William Burke was serving as both a member of the state Coastal...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Air Pollution, Sports, Kamala D. Harris, John A. Perez
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