Results tagged “riverside county”
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Concentrating Solar:
The U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service confirms that a protected peregrine falcon was found severely injured on the site of BrightSource Energy's Ivanpah solar facility in September. It died shortly after. Solar flux is being eyed as a possible cause of death.
Notes of a Native Daughter:
The intensity required to open your own business in 2013, when large corporations are still sitting on millions and billions of dollars, hesitant to give out loans, forces you to think creatively.
Concentrating Solar:
The proposed solar power plant would have a "substantial adverse impact" on visual resources in Riverside County's Chuckwalla Valley, including the views from vantage points in two protected wildernesses and Joshua Tree National Park, according to a state assessment.
Weekend Trips:
The beauty -- and fun -- of Temecula's undiscovered wine country.
Photovoltaic (PV):
Significant changes to a large solar project's design have prompted the BLM to go at least part of the way back to the drawing board with regard to the project's Environmental Impact Statement.
Concentrating Solar:
The Quechan Indian Tribe minces no words about a proposed solar energy project in Riverside County.
Photovoltaic (PV):
A group concerned with the preservation of Native sacred sites in the Colorado River valley has charged that the Federal Government isn't reaching out to local Native people as the law requires.
Photovoltaic (PV):
First Solar has identifed its two staff members killed in Monday's plane crash near its Desert Sunlight solar facility in Riverside County as Mike Cyr, 41, and Jeff Randall, 35.
East CA:
The state's public health agency has proposed a maximum safe level of the drinking water contaminant made famous by the movie Erin Brockovich, and if they're enacted, some drinking water providers in the desert are going to have to work to clean up their water.
LA as Subject:
Until 1889, Orange and Los Angeles counties were one.
News Briefs:
"It's precautionary," said Carol Underhill, a public information officer, "we don't expect the fire to go into the area."
A wildfire raging on in Riverside County has burned through 10,000 acres and damaged at least 15 structures.
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Riverside:
The California Museum of Photography's exhibition, "Geographies of Detention: From Guantánamo to the Golden Gulag," merges art and activism, exposing the realities of U.S. prison systems through visual form.
Wind:
The company responsible for the worst oil spill in U.S. history says it can't get an adequate offer for its U.S. wind division.
Wind:
The paper published an editorial calling for state and federal agencies to give wind energy a far bigger slice of the pie when portioning out the California desert. Here's why they got it badly wrong.
Riverside:
Dime Stories filled a need for an open-mike venue in Temecula, a place where writers could get their words heard by an audience.
Solar:
A ReWire investigation has revealed that since mid-March, two large industrial solar power plants in Riverside County's remote, arid desert may have killed or injured more than 20 birds commonly associated with lakes or wetlands rather than the open desert surrounding the projects.
The Grid:
A giant energy project that would turn an abandoned open pit mine near Joshua Tree National Park into two hydroelectric storage reservoirs got a thumbs-up from the state's main water quality agency this week.
Riverside:
For over 20 years, KUCR Indian Time Radio has been a point of pride in the Indian community, cementing their own place within Southern California's pop culture sphere.
