Sacramento County Local News: Environment

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Environment Land Use & Development Agriculture, Food & Gardening Sustainability Sacramento Tree Foundation

Meet Jessica Sanders, Executive Director of the Sacramento Tree Foundation

03/11/2024
A Q&A with Jessica Sanders, who helps the leafy citizens of the "City of Trees" thrive.

From The Sacramento Bee...

Business, Economy & Jobs Environment Transportation Sustainability

Sacramento Among the Best Places to Drive an Electric Vehicle

03/10/2024
New report ranked metro areas based on electric vehicle charging infrastructure and found improvement over the last year using data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels Data Center.

From CapPublicRadio...

Environment Resilience

Four Tribes in California Receive Federal Funds to Boost Access to Electricity

03/07/2024
For many living on the Yurok Tribe’s reservation, which lies in and around Humboldt County, access to electricity has been spotty for years — if that access has existed at all.

From YubaNet...

Environment Sustainability

EPA Announces New Superfund Cleanup Projects in California

02/27/2024
Part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the projects include California’s Lava Cap Mine in Nevada City, Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine in Clearlake Oaks, and Southern Avenue Industrial Area in South Gate.

From CapPublicRadio...

Environment Sustainability

Wildfires Are Killing California’s Ancient Giants. Can Seedlings Save the Species?

02/26/2024
Ecologists estimate that up to 14,000 sequoias have been killed in recent wildfires. The National Park Service for the first time has begun replanting some severely burned areas.

From CalMatters...

Environment Sustainability Government

California’s Polluted Communities Could Miss Out on Billions Under Flawed System

02/22/2024
The state’s environmental tool skews which communities are designated as disadvantaged, researchers say. Some immigrant neighborhoods could be left out, while other groups are overrepresented.

From Los Angeles Times...

Environment Water

After Heavy Storms, Death Valley Is Now Open to Kayakers

02/20/2024
A temporary lake in Death Valley National Park doubled after recent rains and is now deep enough to launch a kayak. Prior to August, ghostly Lake Manly hadn’t appeared in 19 years.

From CapPublicRadio...

Public Safety Environment Water

How Are Atmospheric Rivers Affected by Climate Change?

02/06/2024
Atmospheric rivers are well-known weather phenomena along the West Coast. But the intensity of recent atmospheric rivers is almost certainly affected by human-caused climate change.

From Los Angeles Times...

Public Safety Environment Water Resilience

The Terrifying Forces That Created a California Monster Storm

02/05/2024
The storm fed off of unusually warm waters as it grew. It also reached “bomb cyclone” status as it neared California.

From Daily Democrat...

Public Safety Environment

Some Experts Are Proposing a Category 6 Storm Rating

02/05/2024
A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6.

From Los Angeles Times...

Environment Sustainability

Los Angeles Smog Woes Worsen as U.S. EPA Threatens to Reject Local Pollution Plan

02/03/2024
The U.S. EPA is planning to reject Southern California’s plan to reduce smog, which called for the federal government to take more action.

From SF Gate...

Environment Animals

Imperiled Monarch Butterflies Cling to Survival in California

01/30/2024
Monarch butterflies have a long way to go before reaching stable population numbers.

From SF Gate...

Environment Water

Scientists Debunk California Biblical-Storm Hysteria Swirling on Internet

01/29/2024
What is an ARkStorm and why is everyone talking about it on social media right now?

From Los Angeles Times...

Environment Sustainability

A Fire Burning Inside an L.A. County Landfill is Raising Alarms Over Toxic Air

01/29/2024
As an underground fire burns deep within Chiquita Canyon Landfill, air regulators are raising alarms over the possible spread of toxic vapors.

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Business, Economy & Jobs Environment Land Use & Development Agriculture, Food & Gardening Housing

Silicon Valley Billionaires vs. Bay Area’s Housing Crisis?

01/28/2024
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In NYT’s “The Farmers Had What the Billionaires Wanted,” we meet a man who wants to build a city in the middle of nowhere, and folks who are slowing him down. For now.

From CapPublicRadio...

Environment Water Sustainability

‘Hot Droughts’ Are Becoming More Common in the Arid West, New Study Finds

01/28/2024
Take a period of limited rainfall. Add heat. And you have what scientists call a “hot drought”—dry conditions made more intense by the evaporative power of hotter temperatures.

From CapRadio...

Environment Water Animals Sustainability

Largest Dam Removal in U.S. History Begins

01/16/2024
The removal entered a critical phase with the lowering of dammed reservoirs on the Klamath River. “This is historic and life-changing,” tribal attorney Amy Cordalis said. “And it means that the Yurok people have a future.”

From Folsom Times...

Environment Resilience

Twenty-Year Study Confirms Forests Are Healthier When Burned or Thinned

01/12/2024
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A 20-year experiment in the Sierra Nevada confirms that different forest management techniques are effective at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire in California.

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Business, Economy & Jobs Environment Water Agriculture, Food & Gardening Government

California’s New Water-Saving Regs Lack 'Compelling Justifications'

01/05/2024
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Benefits of the state's new, strict water conservation rules may not outweigh the costs, analysts say.

From SFGate...

Public Safety Environment Transportation

Snow Shortage Followed by Potential Whiteout in Sierras

01/05/2024
Heavy snow is projected in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Previously, warmer storms had been bringing precipitation mainly to higher elevations in the Sierras.

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