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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency John Laird released a landscape-level draft renewable energy and conservation plan covering more than 22 million acres in the California desert. The plan also includes an analysis of the potential environmental impacts of these alternatives.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The return on this investment extends far beyond the San Diego campus. The Commission approved a $1.6-million

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, Inc., The goal is to complete fuel certifications to ready Sapphire Energy’s renewable crude oil for wide-scale oil refining. The company’s biofuels platform is one piece of a technology strategy that also includes research and development of fuel cells and solar cells.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The piece was co-authored by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego climate and atmospheric scientist V. Available technology such as diesel particulate filters for vehicles and cleaner- burning biomass and solar cookstoves can significantly reduce black carbon emissions. Wallack and Ramanathan. Earlier post.)

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

So buckle up and hang on while I take you for a little trip with the Greenius to the places I’ve been and the places I’m going… My First Solar PV Install. As regular Creative Greenius readers have learned, GRID Alternatives is a nonprofit organization that installs solar panels on low-income housing in California.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Support has declined 7 points from July 2008 (73%) and 12 points from 2007 (78%). The decline is sharpest among Republicans (57% 2008, 43% today). In July 2008, when the plan to implement AB 32 was being discussed, a majority (57%) said the government should adopt it right away rather than wait (36%). Air quality.

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