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Month: October 2021

California Natural Resources Agency hosting virtual meeting to introduce review panel on water importation at Salton Sea

The California Natural Resources Agency is hosting an online public meeting on Tuesday evening to introduce the Independent Review Panel on Water Importation. The Salton Sea Management Program (SSMP) is establishing an Independent Review Panel (Panel) to review concepts for water importation to the Salton Sea for its long-term restoration The Independent Review Panel will

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Warming up Thursday

We continue with overall mild conditions across the Coachella Valley, but temperatures are expected to rise over the coming days. KESQ A ridge of high pressure is building across the region from off the coast. Warm, dry air will filter in with the help of weak Santa Ana winds. KESQ Seasonable temperatures return by Saturday,

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These World Heritage Forests have gone from removing carbon from the atmosphere to emitting it

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Human activity and climate change-fueled disasters have turned 10 of the planet’s internationally recognized forests, also known as World Heritage sites, from carbon absorbers into carbon emitters, researchers have found. The report from UNESCO found these sites can absorb approximately 190 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year

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Republican attorneys general criticize Biden vaccine order

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Twenty-one Republican state attorneys general have sent a letter to President Joe Biden criticizing his COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal contractors. The Wednesday letter is signed by attorneys general from Texas, Mississippi, Alaska and other states. They say the mandate “stands on shaky legal ground,”

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