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CA history shows droughts don’t last
Gov. Jerry Brown, state Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, and other legislators are pushing for groundwater regulation during the drought. Since October 4, 2013, the California Water Resources Control Board has been floating a discussion draft of a Groundwater Workplan
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CA green power keeps shifting costs to ratepayers
California Energy Markets recently reported that three California cities just won agreement from regulators to reclassify solar power transmission costs as distribution. The cities are Pasadena, Riverside and Azusa. That means the cities reaped a 25 percent reduction in long-term solar power contracts. This seemingly arcane
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Earthquake just hit Orange County
9:11 pm. About 3 minutes ago, an earthquake rolled through Orange County. In Huntington Beach, where I live, it lasted about 45 seconds. My guess is that it was not in O.C. because of the rolling. My dogs were acting
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CA high-speed rail strikes out at hearing
The state Senate’s Transportation and Housing Committee held a hearing Thursday on California’s quixotic high-speed rail project. Even Gov. Jerry Brown, who still hopes the bullet train will be the enduring legacy of his third stint as governor, might
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Sen. Boxer: Conservation would solve drought
Can California’s zero-sum water wars only be resolved by a system of stern water conservation? That’s what California U.S. Senator at large Barbara Boxer left as an unanswered question at a March 20 Palm Springs water symposium on the
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False River dam could halt Delta saltwater surge
California climatologists such as Jeffrey Mount, Peter Gleick and the California Climate Change Center have predicted for some time an apocalyptic disaster in the Sacramento Bay Delta from a rise in sea level and flooding due to global warming.
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L.A. proposal: That’s a pension tax — not a pothole tax
This proposal — allegedly from Los Angeles bureaucrats but almost certainly from new L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti — got the scorn it deserved on libertarian and conservative websites when it came out Wednesday afternoon: “L.A.’s elected officials should put a half-cent
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High-speed rail brief includes Quentin Kopp objections
It might take more than a cow catcher to push Quentin Kopp from standing in the middle of the track trying to stop California’s high-speed rail project. A former head of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, which oversees the
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