Two towns in California have passed laws requiring newly built homes to install solar panels. Is mandating green energy the wave of the future?
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(Paxton Holley)
If you live in California and were envisioning a storefront marijuana shop on every corner, stop dreaming.
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The police chief explained that people can turn in their firearms with no questions asked, but that this does not apply to bombs.
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More than two dozen environmental organisations are urging California Governor Jerry Brown to disregard recommendations from a United Nations task force to include so-called forest “offsets” in the state’s new emissions-trading scheme.
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Japan’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that “about 1,000 officers of the nation’s Self-Defense Forces will participate in a U.S. drill to be held in California in June involving recapturing control of an isolated island.”
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Silicon Valley tech firms, banks and other powerful industries are mounting a quiet but forceful campaign to kill an Internet privacy bill that would give California consumers the right to know how their personal information is being used.
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We know that the allegations were bogus, but still Toyota has agreed to a million deal with a southern Californian county over charges the Japanese auto giant hid safety issues linked to unintended acceleration of cars.
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Berkeley city councilman Gordon Wozniak raised some eyebrows this week when he proposed a “tiny tax” on email to fund the United States Postal Service.
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Amtrak and the California High-Speed Rail Authority are joining forces in the search for proven high-speed rail (HSR) train sets currently being manufactured and in commercial service that are capable of operating safely at speeds up to 220 mph on both Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor (NEC) and on California’s developing HSR corridor
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David Milarch, co-founder of the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, says the trees planted outside Port Orford, Ore., will be the start of a campaign to establish some of the world’s fastest-growing trees around the globe to combat global warming.
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