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California lawmakers will consider new rules for fracking
SACRAMENTO -- California lawmakers will hold an oversight hearing next week to probe draft regulations for hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," the controversial drilling process driving the nation's oil and gas boom. Last year, oil regulators...
Tags: Fran Pavley, Petroleum Industry, Environmental Issues, Energy, Energy Resources
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'Bambigate': Indiana pair rescue deer, get snarled in legal woes
In Indiana, intrigue and outrage over "Bambigate" is coming to an end. That's right: Bambigate -- the unofficial moniker for the case of an eastern Indiana couple who face misdemeanor “illegal possession of a whitetail deer” charges for...
Tags: Ed Koch, Conservation, Justice System, Environmental Issues, Government
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Half of food produced worldwide is wasted, study finds
Up to half of the food produced worldwide never makes it into a consumer's mouth, according to a new report. That’s as much as 2 billion tons of grub that’s wasted, according to a study released Thursday by Britain's Institution of...
Tags: Conservation, United Kingdom, Arable Farming, Environmental Issues, Energy Resources
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Name change: California Department of Fish and Wildlife
To Jared Huffman, the name "fish and game" was an outdated artifact of a bygone era when state officials mostly set hunting seasons and bag limits. It no longer reflected the department's mission "to mange California's diverse fish, wildlife and plant...
Tags: Conservation, Ecosystems, Environmental Issues, Endangered Species, Wildlife
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Letters: Marijuana growers trash California's forests
Re “Pot farms take dirty toll,” Dec. 23 Some years back I purchased a copy of biologist George Wuerthner's guide “California's Wilderness Areas: Mountains and coastal ranges.” As a Southern California native, I was not familiar...
Tags: Conservation, Environmental Issues, Wildlife
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Market Watch: Plum-cherry hybrids find a sweet spot
Special to the Los Angeles TimesHANFORD, Calif. — Combining the high sugar and flavor of cherries with the larger fruit size and extended season of plums has been a longstanding dream for fruit breeders, but such crosses are difficult to make successfully so that the hybrids yield...Tags: Forests, Environmental Issues, Cherries, Farms, Whole Foods Market
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California's piers: Enjoy their primal allure
How was that little vacation you took? You remember. It cost you almost nothing, it burned some calories (or, after that ice cream cone, added a few) and briefly immersed you in quintessential California. It was that walk on a pier, those structures that...
Tags: Conservation, Environmental Issues, Endangered Species, Personal Service, Wildlife
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Even as climate change turns up the heat, we go on fracking
In the midst of a broiling summer that is burning up crops and killing people, a lot of Americans, including most of the leaders of one of our two major political parties, do not think climate change is a problem. Like ostriches with their heads stuck...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Environmental Issues, Republican Party, Global Change, Global Warming
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Plan calls for more than 10,000 homes at Great Park
L.A. NOWThousands of new homes could be built along the perimeter of a former Marine base in Orange County that officials envision being turned into one of the nation’s great urban parks, according to a proposal being considered by city officials in Irvine.... -
First Solar gets L.A. County go-ahead for massive solar site
First Solar Inc. is restarting work on one of the biggest construction projects in Los Angeles County after resolving a code conflict with the public works department. The nearly $1.4-billion Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One project was put on hold as the...
Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Conservation, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Environmental Issues, Endangered Species
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Global death toll of environmental activists rising, report says
World NowGrowing numbers of activists and others defending the environment have been killed over the past decade, according to a new report from the environmental watchdog group Global Witness. The London-based group says more than 100 people were killed last year... -
As lawmakers pursue fracking bills, report looks at water effects
PolitiCalA new report on hydraulic fracturing has taken stock of the controversial procedure's effect on water supplies in Colorado, echoing concerns of California lawmakers as they seek to regulate "fracking" here. Western Resource Advocates, an environmental...
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