Results tagged “kern county”
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The Hidden Desert:
It's one of my favorite plants in Southern California, but I'm never sure what to call it in polite company.
As firefighters continued battling a 3,500-acre brush fire in Kern County, air quality officials today issued a smoke advisory for L.A. County areas.
Golden Green:
Banning fracking in California will not save the planet. But it's a start.
Wind:
In a reversal that has outraged environmentalists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it will not penalize a Southern California wind operator if its turbines kill or injure one California condor.
Solar:
Valley fever, a respiratory infection spread by fungal spores that live in soil, has been diagnosed in 28 workers at two San Luis Obispo solar project construction sites. The stricken workers were employed at the California Valley Solar Ranch and Topaz Solar Farm, which occupy the arid Carrizo Plain in the eastern part of the county.
Solar:
Construction has launched on a solar project its developers are calling the world's largest, on more than 3,200 acres straddling the Kern-Los Angeles county line in the Antelope Valley.
SoCal Spirits:
Downtown's BUZZ Wine Beer Shop serves great craft beer to their neighborhood and beyond.
Wildlife:
More than half of the Mojave Desert biodiversity "hotspots" identified in a study are under threat from utility-scale renewable energy development and related transmission corridors.
Where We Are:
How long, like a dull echo, does a killing reverberate? For a death in an onion field in Kern County, it's been fifty years.
coal:
A proposed coal-fired power plant that would cost $3.15 billion tops a list of five projects of California investor-owned utilities singled out for criticism by the Sierra Club as expensive and dirty.
Outdoors:
The news for grandiose blooms of wildflowers this spring has not been looking great so far. The poppy fields in Antelope Valley remain brown. It's sluggish at Carrizo Plain. And so on and on. But at Wind Wolves Preserve...
Commentary:
Following State Senator Michael Rubio's surprise resignation a special election will be held to fill his seat. Many will be watching to see if this coveted seat changes party hands and Democrats lose their supermajority in the state senate.
Wind:
The North Sky River Wind project, which attracted fierce opposition from environmental groups concerned about potential threat to eagles and California condors, was the site of a golden eagle death in January.
Wind:
The operator of a proposed wind turbine facility near the city of Mojave got the thumbs-up for its project from Kern County supervisors, but only on the condition that there's a way to monitor California condors and shut down turbines if the birds come too close.
California's Small Farms:
These happy goats make some of the best cheese in California -- and you'll never guess their favorite treat.
Wind:
SCE hooks up to Oregon's largest wind facility.
The Grid:
LADWP approves environmental documents for a new 75-mile transmission line in the Mojave Desert.
Wind:
Another wind turbine installation goes online in the West Mojave
Photovoltaic (PV):
First Solar will be selling more Central Valley solar power to Northern California
Government:
Governor Brown signs bills making it easier to build solar on the Central Coast, and mine geothermal brine for valuable minerals.
