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The City Council of Santa Clarita West Diversion Subcommittee meeting will be held today, Monday May 12, at 2:00PM in the City Hall Main (more…)

PeregrineFalcon.jpgCalifornia’s peregrine falcons, once driven to the edge of extinction by the pesticide DDT, now are contaminated with record-high levels of other toxic chemicals that may threaten them again. State scientists have found that peregrines in Long Beach, Los Angeles (more…)

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is competitive about many things, garbage included. When the city found out a few weeks ago that it was keeping 70 percent (more…)

After decades of research that sought, and found, evidence of a human influence on the earth’s climate, climatologists are beginning to shift to a new and similarly (more…)

JacksWorld.jpgAn MIT class has estimated the carbon emissions of Americans in a wide variety of lifestyles — from the homeless to multimillionaires, from Buddhist monks to soccer moms — and compared them to those of other nations. The somewhat disquieting bottom line is that in the United States, even the people with the lowest usage of energy are (more…)

SolarPanels.jpg   Lennar, SunPower and Southern California Edison team up with a solar event in Valencia today, Saturday April 19, at 1:00 p.m. in the Lennar SOLARplus Info Center 28868 Coal Mountain Ct. in Valencia (please enter through West Hills Sales Office) (more…)

A proposal to charge grocery shoppers a quarter apiece for those omnipresent white plastic bags stalled in the Legislature on Monday, but an Assembly committee approved the idea of stepping up state regulation to reduce the use of what critics say are a huge environmental headache. (more…)

Californians support the idea of charging “green” vehicle fees that would make drivers of gas guzzlers pay higher taxes and offer discounts for those driving less-polluting (more…)

Removing a major hurdle to growth at the Port of Los Angeles, harbor officials have agreed to pay $12 million over the next year on pollution reduction initiatives in (more…)

California moved a step closer to permanently protecting its shores from offshore oil drilling Monday when the House approved legislation to ban development in federal (more…)

The plug-in hybrid cars that could help meet California’s global warming goals aren’t yet available in dealers’ showrooms. But the big automakers aren’t ignoring them, either. Ford Motor Co. announced Thursday that it will test a prototype plug-in SUV with the help of a Palo Alto research group. (more…)

California regulators cut by 70 percent the number of emission-free vehicles that automobile manufacturers must sell in California in the three years beginning in 2012. (more…)

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