Yolo County Local News: Environment


All Local Environment News articles contributed by our local media allies and other local newsrooms.

California Local Pin Marker From The Galt Herald...

07/12/2023
A rodent posing a serious threat to levees and native marshlands has found its way to Sacramento County. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife first sounded the alarm on nutria in 2017, when the large South American rodents were detected in the San Joaquin Valley.

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07/06/2023
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New bill could strip some environmental protection powers in favor of new housing development.

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07/06/2023
Research by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s snake fungal disease project indicates that the pathogen is occurring in more locations and impacting more snakes in California than previously known.

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07/06/2023
Truck manufacturers won’t file legal challenges over California's controversial mandate, and in return, the state air board will relax some smog-fighting requirements.

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06/28/2023
California lawmakers passed the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act, permanently protecting the iconic and imperiled species.

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06/27/2023
Image for display with article titled $15.5 Billion ‘Climate Resiliency Bond’ Getting Ready for Voters on 2024 Ballot

After cuts to climate change spending in budget, state to propose massive bond issue.

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06/26/2023
Image for display with article titled The Heat is On! What California is Doing to Protect Workers From Rising Temperatures

Hot temperatures kill employees every year and climate change is making work more deadly.

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06/21/2023
Image for display with article titled Should Zoning Be Abolished? How the Land Use Laws We Take For Granted Are Hurting Us

Zoning laws create segregation, inequality and unsustainability. So why do we keep them?

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06/19/2023
The State of California will provide new protections for prescribed fire and cultural burning practitioners. The $20 million allocated for the Prescribed Fire Liability Claims Fund Pilot will cover losses in the rare instance that a prescribed or cultural burn escapes control.

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06/06/2023
The U.S. District Court for the District of Montana ruled the U.S. Forest Service can continue to use aerial fire retardant to fight wildfires while waiting on a Clean Water Act permit.

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05/31/2023
Image for display with article titled California Inches Toward Renewable Energy Goal, But Still 13th Nationwide

In 2021, California drew 37 percent of its electricity from clean, renewable sources.

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05/19/2023
California legislative committees in the Assembly and Senate blocked two big climate bills. One would have made the state’s greenhouse gas emission reduction targets more ambitious. Another would have allowed people to sue oil companies over health problems if they meet certain criteria.

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04/26/2023
Image for display with article titled Future Of California at Risk While Landmark CEQA Law Remains Unchanged

By almost any measure, the balance between advancing projects critical to California's future and environmental protection under the California Environmental Quality Act has been lost. The failure to reform CEQA is not for a lack of knowing what the solutions are.

California Local Pin Marker From The Mercury News...

04/23/2023
And neither was 1952. The top honor should really go to 1983, which clinched first at 231% of normal, an analysis by the Bay Area News Group found.

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03/03/2023
Image for display with article titled Climate Change-Driven Storms Could Make Newsom’s Climate Spending Problems Worse

Extended tax deadlines for storm-hit counties could create a cash-flow issue.

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02/26/2023
A $4.4 billion project on the Sacramento River to add dams and store more water that will be sent south, the Sites Reservoir is still years away from completion. The final environmental report is expected this year.

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02/22/2023
A new Stanford-led study shows that about a fifth of all Sierra Nevada conifer forests are a “mismatch” for their regions’ warming weather. These “zombie forests” are likely to be replaced other tree species after one of California’s increasingly frequent catastrophic wildfires.

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01/16/2023
Climate change models indicate that California’s Central Valley will experience conditions that could threaten the reproductive success of songbirds, according to a study from UC Davis.

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01/12/2023
Image for display with article titled Is California’s Drought Over? Here’s What You Need To Know About Rain, Snow, Reservoirs and Drought.

A dozen days of wet and wild weather haven’t ended the drought, and won't cure the driest period in the West in the past 1,200 years.

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01/11/2023
Image for display with article titled As Historic Storm Batters California, Newsom Calls for Cuts in Climate Spending

Coming budget shortfall may claim some climate change programs as victims.