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Amazon and Volvo team up on big rig electric trucks, rolling out of Southern California ports
California has laid down mandates to dump diesel trucks and replace them with lower-carbon technologies in increasing numbers until 2035,
when sale of new diesel trucks will be banned.
The aim: to get rid of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.
Already, the state has banned brand new diesel trucks from seaports in California,
although diesel trucks purchased throu…

Amazon, Volvo team up on electric trucks at Southern California ports
The rollout of Amazon's big rigs at the L.A. and Long Beach port complex is part of a shift to zero out pollution from trucking in California.

Take California by Propellerheads
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Take California by Propellerheads
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arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 16726 nodes and 47594 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboratio…

"UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants
The biomass energy industry centered in the U.S. Southeast is now seeking expansion to California, with U.K. wood pellet maker Drax joining a state-funded nonprofit to increase pellet exports to Asia — a plan forest advocates oppose.

Huntington Beach in California votes for Pride flag ban
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/07/california-huntington-beach-pride-flag-lgbtq/

California beach town votes for Pride flag ban
Voters in Huntington Beach, California have passed a ballot measure which will see non-governmental flags banned from government buildings. 

🍳 California junk fee ban could upend restaurant industry
#food

California’s Junk Fee Ban Could ‘Upend’ the Restaurant Industry
California’s ban on so-called junk fees, SB 478, goes into effect on July 1. But the attorney general’s office has yet to outline how the law will be enforced, leaving restaurant and bar owners anxious and worried.

Why Highway 1 is the climate challenge that #California can’t fix #geology
https://wapo.st/4bsrUg7

Why Highway 1 is the climate challenge that California can’t fix
California’s Highway 1 is beloved by Big Sur road trippers. But continued landslides, storms, fires and other climate impacts imperil its future.

Amazon and Volvo team up on big rig electric trucks, rolling out of Southern California ports
California has laid down mandates to dump diesel trucks and replace them with lower-carbon technologies in increasing numbers until 2035,
when sale of new diesel trucks will be banned.
The aim: to get rid of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.
Already, the state has banned brand new diesel trucks from seaports in California,
although diesel trucks purchased throu…

Amazon, Volvo team up on electric trucks at Southern California ports
The rollout of Amazon's big rigs at the L.A. and Long Beach port complex is part of a shift to zero out pollution from trucking in California.

Since 2020, California has installed more ⭐️giant batteries ⭐️than anywhere in the world apart from China.
They can soak up excess solar power during the day and store it for use when it gets dark.
Those batteries play a pivotal role in California’s electric grid,
partially replacing fossil fuels in the evening.
Between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. on April 30, for example, batteries supplied more than one-fifth of California’s electricity
and, for a few minutes, pumped…

Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity
They’re delivering solar power after dark in California and helping to stabilize grids in other states. And the technology is expanding rapidly.

Why Highway 1 is the climate challenge that California can’t fix
It was always a risky proposition to maintain a highway at the very edge of a continent.
But now Big Sur is facing wetter storms that infiltrate and weaken cracked and porous rock.
Wildfires leave behind extra debris for those floodwaters to carry downhill.
Pounding waves from stronger storms and rising seas eat away at cliffs from beneath.

Why Highway 1 is the climate challenge that California can’t fix
California’s Highway 1 is beloved by Big Sur road trippers. But continued landslides, storms, fires and other climate impacts imperil its future.