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drought
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Drought Fact Check: Teed Off About Golf Courses?
Post date:Few significant water uses are so ostentatious and arguably unnecessary as golf.
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Bay Delta
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Modified Bay Delta Plan Still Draws Critics
Post date:A $25 billion plan to reengineer the Bay Delta would still harm fish and the Delta's beleaguered environment.
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Photovoltaic
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Bill Would Streamline Rooftop Solar Permits
Post date:A group of solar installers wearing hardhats descended on the State Capitol Tuesday to urge lawmakers to support a bill that would make it much easier to pull permits for rooftop solar projects.
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invertebrates
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Dead Birds Prompt Renewed Pesticide Spraying in Bay Area
Post date:A Bay Area county not usually known as a hotspot for West Nile virus has undertaken a second round of pesticide spraying this year after finding mosquitoes infected with the virus, according to public health officials.
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mammals
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Bobcat Poacher Gets Probation
Post date:A man who pled guilty to illegally trapping and killing dozens of bobcats and gray foxes in Lassen County was fined $5,000 and sentenced to a year's probation.
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birds
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Crash In Tricolored Blackbird Population Has Biologists Worried
Post date:A bird sometimes called "California's passenger pigeon" is in worse trouble than some wildlife advocates suspected. According to a new survey, the population of tricolored blackbirds has dropped by 44 percent since 2011.
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endangered species
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Deformed Frog Hotspots Found in Central Valley Wildlife Refuges
Post date:California's Central Valley is a bad place to be a frog, according to a study published Monday.
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first solar
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Sacramento Valley Town to Buy Solar Power From Kern County
Post date:The upscale Sacramento suburb of Roseville will buy electrical power from a solar facility more than 260 miles south of the city, in a Kern County town more readily known for oil wells than solar fields.
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Federal Housing Agency Gets in the Way of Rooftop Solar
Post date:A Tuesday announcement in Sacramento, however, shows that the program can still work for energy efficiency upgrades at commercial properties.
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More Electric Car Charging Stations Coming to California
Post date:It might be a bit easier to charge your plug-in electric car in California before long, thanks to $341,045 in grants from the California Energy Commission to increase the number of charging stations statewide.