Yolo County Local News: Environment


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

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06/09/2022
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The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing will help pumas and other critters in the Santa Monica Mountains cross 10 lanes of Highway 101.

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06/02/2022
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California is doing something to stop the mass slaughter of animals on the roads.

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05/20/2022
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California could soon shut down its last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon.

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05/16/2022
The Bureau of Land Management is seeking nominations for positions on its California Desert District Advisory Council, Central California Resource Advisory Council, and Northern California District RAC.

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04/28/2022
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As California’s drought only gets worse, here’s what you can do to help.

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04/20/2022
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Urban consumers have already cut water use over the past decade, but more can be done.

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03/22/2022
Aerosols carried in wildfire smoke plumes that are hundreds of hours old can still affect climate, according to a study out of the University of California, Davis.

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03/08/2022
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Gas prices are rising, but the truth is, they were too low to begin with.

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03/07/2022
Low numbers of adult fall-run Chinook salmon returned to spawn in the Sacramento River in 2021, but the ocean abundance forecast for fall Chinooks is better than last year, according to federal and state scientists.

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03/02/2022
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New expert report pushes aggressive action to update state’s water rights regulations

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12/17/2021
Image for display with article titled California’s New Leaf Blower Ban, Explained: Relief From Noise and Air Pollution On the Way, Sometime

New law cracks down on those annoying and polluting leaf blowers, but can more be done?

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10/15/2021
Image for display with article titled Why Oil Spills Still Strike California’s Coast, Half-Century After a Landmark Disaster Changed Environmental Laws

More than 50 years after the Santa Barbara oil spill, the state is still hit with oil disasters. Here’s why.

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10/11/2021
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California’s ports are backed up with overflow cargo ship traffic. Here’s why that’s dangerous.

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09/30/2021
Image for display with article titled PG&E’s Lengthy Record of Starting Wildfires, and What the Company Is Doing to Change It

The power utility’s record includes two of the most destructive wildfires in California history.

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09/23/2021
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Even as California’s wildfires grow more intense seemingly every year, insurers are cancelling policies for homeowners in the path of the fires.

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08/31/2021
Image for display with article titled The Art of Noise: Efforts to Manage Noise and Create a Quieter Environment, Explained

Noise is a form of pollution that threatens public health like any other type of environmental pollution. Here's what federal, state and local governments are doing to quiet things down.

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08/26/2021
Image for display with article titled LAFCOs Are No Joke: The Independent Boards That Set Government Boundaries, Explained

What’s a LAFCO? That’s the odd-sounding acronym for the independent boards that get a grip on suburban sprawl and government inefficiency.

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07/22/2021
Image for display with article titled PG&E Now Says it Will Bury 10,000 Miles of Power Lines

After admitting a power line may have started the Dixie Megafire in Butte County, PG&E now says it will place 10,000 miles of power lines underground.

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05/25/2021
Image for display with article titled Compost Belongs in the Garden: A Q&A with Nick Lappis of Californians Against Waste, one of SB 1383’s main architects

Californians Against Waste was one of the main advocates behind SB 1383, which requires California to divert 75 percent of its organic waste from landfills. California Local talked to CAW’s Nick Lapis to learn more about what it does and why.

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05/24/2021
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In 2022, California trash haulers will begin turning millions of tons of methane-emitting organic waste into a new cash crop: compost.