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Proposition Circulated in Monterey County, Calif., Would Ban Fracking
Posted by San Jose Mercury News: Paul Rogers on February 24th, 2016
San Jose Mercury News: Hoping to expand on similar bans already in place in Santa Cruz, San Benito and Mendocino counties, environmentalists on Tuesday launched a ballot campaign to prohibit fracking in Monterey County, setting the stage for another expensive battle with the oil industry over the controversial drilling technique.
The measure, if approved by voters in November, also would ban all new oil drilling in Monterey County -- California's fourth largest oil-producing county. It would continue to allow the roughly...
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Silicon Valley water district moves to join global warming divestment movement
Posted by San Jose Mercury News: Paul Rogers on August 26th, 2013
San Jose Mercury News: In the 1980s, hundreds of American cities, states and universities sold their investments in South African companies as part of a protest against that country's former apartheid government.
Now, environmental groups are trying to duplicate that effort, but with global warming polluters in the role of villain. And, just as with South African divestment a generation ago, the Bay Area is at the head of the parade again, prompting cheers from environmentalists and jeers from skeptics who say the whole...
California faces more serious risk of sea level rise than other areas
Posted by San Jose Mercury News: Paul Rogers on June 22nd, 2012
San Jose Mercury News: As the world continues to warm from climate change, oceans will rise up to 8 inches in the next 20 years, 19 inches by 2050, and up to 4 feet by 2100, causing increasing threats from flooding, according to a new study released Friday from the National Academy of Sciences.
But California will see even more sea level rise because much of the state's coastal area is subsiding due to geological forces.
South of Cape Mendocino -- areas including San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles -- will see ocean...