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California Climate Change Winners and Losers

Labor Day weekend forecast: Winners and losers of summer's last hurrah
Yahoo News Canada
Labor Day weekend forecast: Winners and losers of summer's last hurrah ... But climate change is making it dicier. PAW PAW, Mich. (AP) — Robb Rynd ...

Winners and losers in a hotter ocean - Tolerance.ca
Tolerance.ca
This isn't a simple story of loss, but of winners and losers in a lottery weighted by climate change. This roundup of The Conversation's climate ... 

California Global Reporting Initiative    

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California Socially Responsible Investing    

CalSTRS Names Senior Investment Director for Private Markets, Sustainable Investments ... - Ai-CIO
Ai-CIO
... California pension fund in 2019 as director of SISS ... The manager, a subsidiary of Dutch insurer Achmea, states that socially responsible investing is ...

ESG Today: Week in Review
ESG Today
ESG Investing, sustainable finance & business sustainability news. ESG ... California emissions rules; EBA tells regulators to hold off on ...

Democrats Say Retirement Dollars at Risk From GOP's Anti-ESG Approach - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
Democratic state officials from New York to California sent letters to asset managers overseeing trillions of dollars in retirement funds, ...

California Geoengineering

Arctic geoengineering project shut down over danger to wildlife - MSN
MSN
Bright Ice Initiative, also based in California, is experimenting with using silica microbeads to stop glacier loss on land. “This will add more ...

Businesses urge California to extend climate program immediately - POLITICO Pro
POLITICO Pro
CLIMATEWIRE | A coalition of more than 40 retail, oil and gas, clean energy, and other businesses is imploring California legislators to act as ...

California's Problem Solvers Caucus lays out cap-and-trade asks - POLITICO Pro
POLITICO Pro
CLIMATEWIRE | SACRAMENTO, California — A bipartisan group of two dozen California state lawmakers staked out a moderate position Monday on the ...

California climate change and satellites     

New NASA-ESA Sea Level Satellite Arrives at California Launch Site
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA
The Sentinel-6B satellite — packed into its white climate-controlled shipping container — rests on the deck of the Industrial Dolphin in a port in ...

NASA is moving away from tracking climate change - The Week
The Week
Heatmap of Earth. NASA satellites provide crucial data on climate change ... Blooming almond trees in an orchard in Modesto, California. A rat ...

Ninth Circuit Denies Stay in Lawsuit Over UC Funding - Metropolitan News-Enterprise
Metropolitan News-Enterprise
... California that had been terminated after being identified as ... satellites to detect climate change. Executive Order No. 14151, signed ...

California Wildfires Climate Change    

The Summer That Changed California Forever | KQED
KQED
The 2020 California wildfires, fueled by climate change and dry lightning, scorched over 4 million acres and reshaped how the state prepares for a ...

Fire Season Is Starting Earlier Thanks to Climate Change, New Study Finds - The Santa ...
The Santa Barbara Independent
The study, titled “Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California,” was published earlier this month in the journal Science ...

California's wildfire safety net is getting thin. Now what? - POLITICO
Politico
... climate change are shaping the future of California ... 

California Sustainability Investing    

California Invests $3B to Enhance Safety, Improve Travel Times and Multimodal Travel
Caltrans - CA.gov
IIJA is a once-in-a-generation investment in our nation's infrastructure to improve the sustainability and resiliency ...

Ongoing Legal Battle Over California's Climate-Related Disclosure Laws: District Court ...
Vinson & Elkins LLP
... California investors. As a result, the district court found the constitutional applications of SB 253 against companies with California investors ...

California Funds Over $3.6 Million in Sustainable Pest Management (SPM) Projects
Wine Industry Advisor
By maximizing our investments in research and demonstration projects through grant funding and contracts, we can accelerate the state's transition to ...

California Leadership Climate Change     

California has a fallback plan for Trump's clean car attacks. Does it go far enough?
CalMatters
Alejandro Lazo writes about the impacts of climate change and air pollution and California's policies to tackle them. ... leadership/">June ...

Growing body of research reveals high stakes for California leaders to get the details right in ...
News and stories - Environmental Defense Fund
... climate change. California is at an inflection point, and passing SB 540 is a viable plan to reduce customer's energy bills and to make it easier ...

California moves forward on public health and clean vehicles as federal agencies move backwards
California Air Resources Board - CA.gov
... leaders, environmental advocates, and industry stakeholders. More ... CARB is the lead agency for climate change programs and oversees all ...

California Energy Storage    

Up to $206m can be saved from California's distributed power plant programme
Smart Energy International
Launched by the California Energy Commission in 2022, DSGS pays ... “Aggregating home generation and storage produces a reliable, flexible energy ...

Fullmark Energy Brings Another Energy Storage Project Online in California
POWER Magazine
A Midwest-based energy storage developer and independent power producer said it has brought the third project in a strategic collection of ...

Fullmark Energy's 20MW/40MWh California BESS reaches commercial operation
Energy-Storage.News
IPP Fullmark Energy has announced the commercial operation of its 20MW/40MWh Ortega energy storage project in Lake Elsinore, California, US. 

California Green Bond Funds    

Plan for California's largest reservoir in decades gets big funding boost
San Francisco Chronicle
The remainder of the money for Sites came from last year's state climate bond. The California Water Commission, a state advisory board, decided on the ...

University of California Pulls Bond Deal Amid Trump Spat - Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com
The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from UCLA to restore its frozen research funding, which was suspended over allegations of ...

California Data Driven Decision Making    

Three bills would protect California workers from AI management, but will costs stand in the way?
CalMatters
Inferences based on brain data, which can reveal a person's ... decision-making systems use was not widespread at the state level. So I ...

Following California's Lead: How the CCPA's New Rule Guides Compliance Efforts Nationwide
JD Supra
Triggers may include processing of sensitive personal information, conducting large-scale data operations, using data in automated decision-making, ...

Cloudwick's Amorphic Helps California EMSA Win 2025 AWS Champions Award with $35 ...
WANE 15
... data-driven decision making. EMSA's modernization journey focused on transforming its statewide data systems to improve resiliency, transparency ...

California Sector Based Decarbonization  

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California Microgrids    

New All-Electric California Apartment Community Plans to Harness Microgrid for Off-Grid Living
Microgrid Knowledge
A new, all-electric apartment complex will break ground in Petaluma, California, in the coming weeks. With a solar and energy storage microgrid, ...

Utility Sector Risks and Resilience in a Climate-Driven Era: Navigating Southern California's ...
AInvest
- Investors are prioritizing grid modernization (microgrids, DERs), nuclear SMRs, and carbon management to address resilience gaps and decarbonization ...

How EV-Charging Microgrids Can Pencil Out for Car Dealers, Without the Solar, EV Tax Credit
Microgrid Knowledge
Forty more projects have been proposed in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and California, Fields said. How Sunrise Toyota met Toyota's call for DC fast ...

California Carbon Capture Utilization Storage    

BlackRock Acquires Stake in Eni's Carbon Capture Platform - ESG Today
ESG Today
... Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) business, Eni CCUS Holding. The agreement follows an announcement by Eni in May that it had entered ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Market to Triple by 2034, Driven by Regulations ...
EIN Presswire
The Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage market is growing rapidly, driven by strict emission regulations, technological advancements.

BlackRock's GIP Buys 49.99% Stake in Eni's Carbon Capture Business - ESG News
ESG News
Eni has signed an agreement to sell a 49.99% stake in its carbon capture, utilization and storage subsidiary, Eni CCUS Holding, to Global ...

California CDP Sustainability    

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California Community Health Risk Assessment     

Huntington Health Offers Free Community Health Screenings - Pasadena Now
Pasadena Now
... community centers and farmers markets across Pasadena and surrounding areas. Services include blood pressure checks and diabetes risk assessments.

Fitch Rates Adventist, CA's 2025 Revs 'BBB+'; Outlook Stable
Fitch Ratings
The system's operating risk assessment remains 'Midrange ... Community Health Centers of the Central Coast, Inc. and Subsidiaries ...

California Ramps Up Heatwave Response, Introduces CalHeatScore for Real-Time Risk Assessment
Hoodline
CalHeatScore, developed by the California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), provides ...

California Community Health Risks from Climate Change    

Methane leaks at California oil facilities are also spewing toxic chemicals
Los Angeles Times
... California's health risk benchmarks. Advertisement. “Natural gas is not ... Boiling Point: Taking a Hack at Climate Change. Sammy Roth and ...

California's climate alarmism has put America at risk - The Hill
The Hill
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) speaks at a press conference where he signs legislation related to oversight of oil and gas wells, and community ...

Risky oil wells widespread in California wildfire hazard zones | Global Witness
Global Witness
... risks to health and environment as climate crisis expands California's fire hazard zones. ... California's fire hazards ignited by climate change.

California Low Carbon Funds    

California moves forward on public health and clean vehicles as federal agencies move backwards
California Air Resources Board - CA.gov
... Low Carbon Fuel Standard program to maintain private investment in the ZEV market. Incentives: Proposes considering funding, contingent upon the ...

California Can't Afford to Blink in the Showdown over Zero-Emissions - Earthjustice
Earthjustice
California's leaders should harness California's billions in climate funds in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and the Low Carbon Fuel Standard to ...

Clean Transportation Incentives – Fiscal Year 2025-26 Funding Plan Development
California Air Resources Board - CA.gov
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) hosts a series of monthly ... low carbon transportation and air quality. This plan is created each ...

California Renewable Energy Investments    

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California Methane Emissions     

Methane leaks at California oil facilities are also spewing toxic chemicals - Phys.org
Phys.org
Large methane leaks at oil and gas facilities across the United States not only unleash massive plumes of the potent greenhouse gas, but also ...

Taking on False Climate Solutions: Factory Farm Biogas in California's Low Carbon Fuel ...
Food & Water Watch
The LCFS is a transportation fuel program that was designed to encourage the production of alternative fuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in ...

CARB Executive Officer rips U.S. EPA on proposal to reverse decades of proven climate science
California Air Resources Board - CA.gov
California launches first-in-the-nation satellite project to reduce methane leaks. Contact Us. (800) 242-4450 | helpline@arb.ca.gov 1001 I Street ...

California Impact Investing    

CalSTRS Names Senior Investment Director for Private Markets, Sustainable Investments ... - Ai-CIO
Ai-CIO
Kirsty Jenkinson, who was promoted to the roles, joined the California pension fund in 2019 as director of SISS.

Impact 50: S2G mines 'seams' of sectors in impact investing - New Private Markets
New Private Markets
Impact 50: S2G mines 'seams' of sectors in impact investing. The ... California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida ...

Ongoing Legal Battle Over California's Climate-Related Disclosure Laws: District Court ...
Vinson & Elkins LLP
... impact of climate-related risk in their investing decisions. Notably ... California investors. As a result, the district court found the ...