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California Socially Responsible Investing     

Comments invited on proposed responsible investing policy updates | Queen's Gazette
Queen's University
The policy guides how the university considers environmental, social, and governance factors in managing its investments ... gazette@queensu.ca ...

ESG Today: Week in Review
ESG Today
This week in ESG news: BNP Paribas AM launches new global sustainability strategy following AXA IM acquisition; California finalizes corporate ...

Commissioner Lara names five members to the COIN Advisory Board and the Curriculum Board
California Department of Insurance - CA.gov
California Organized Investment Network (COIN) Is a Collaborative Effort Between the California ... impact investments across the state. 

California Geoengineering     

Startup's “Idiotic” Plan to Illuminate Earth Would “End the Night Sky as We Know It”
Mother Jones
The demonstration in California, undertaken earlier this month ... Proposals for solar geoengineering, in which particles are sprayed into ...

Scientists Are Pushing Back Against 'Blinding' Space Tech Recently Tested In California
BGR
... California tech startup. The company is Reflect ... This isn't the only type of solar geoengineering that's been in discussion recently, either.

California Climate Change and Satellites     

Governor Newsom doubles down on methane tracking as Trump moves to weaken pollution ...
Governor of California - CA.gov
California-based partnership expands satellite monitoring to find major methane leaks, protect communities, and combat climate change. What you ...

Sunlight at night: US startup's demonstration of lighting Earth from space draws critcism
The Guardian
“Global warming is happening because the Earth has a radiative imbalance due to the massive amounts of greenhouse gases we've dumped into the ...

Trump kills methane rule days after a plume was found near his rally - POLITICO
Politico
New satellites see thousands of methane leaks. · President Donald Trump on Tuesday pulled back regulations on a major global warming pollutant — just ... 

California Wildfires Climate Change     

Latest Climate Report Warns of Major Upheaval to California Way of Life
The New York Times
Exposure to wildfire smoke will kill thousands more people every year. Those are the dire projections of California's Fifth Climate Change ...

California's latest Climate Change Assessment looks at what rising temperatures could ...
CBS News
"There are going to be more wildfires and droughts and variations in precipitation. All of this is coming to us." Southern California has already seen ...

Climate change already drives displacement across California, says report by UC Berkeley ...
Othering & Belonging Institute - UC Berkeley
The report, one of four statewide topical reports in the Assessment, finds that wildfires, flooding, extreme heat, drought, and sea level rise are ...

California Sustainability Investing     

Critics blast California's $180-million water buy as 'extraordinarily expensive' - LA Times
LA Times
The Newsom administration paid an investment firm for water from a California farm. Environmental advocates are criticizing the deal as far too ...

Sustainable investing momentum slows but commitment holds, Morgan Stanley survey finds
Wealth Professional
... ca this finding will resonate: unreliable or incomplete data continues to undermine confidence in sustainable investment decision-making globally.

California Leadership Climate Change     

California's carbon market changed this year, and the next governor will inherit the fallout
CalMatters
A question of climate leadership. In May, a process to reauthorize the ... California environmental group that opposed this year's changes to the carbon ...

PRESS RELEASE: California releases new climate science, projections to prepare for ...
Maven's Notebook
PRESS RELEASE: California releases new climate science, projections to prepare for climate change impacts ... leaders understand climate risks ...

What Climate Change Is Costing California - Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography | - University of California San Diego
From heat-related illness and deaths to lost work hours and higher insurance and utility bills, climate change is already affecting California's ...

California Energy Storage     

California utility grid reliabilty faces questions as state phases out natural gas plants
NY Post
“Battery storage at current durations does not provide the multi-day, extreme-event resilience that the [natural gas] plants theoretically offered,” ...

Solar and storage saved California $2.5 billion and Texas $3.5 billion this summer
pv magazine USA
New analysis shows record electricity demand met at sharply lower wholesale prices across America's two largest markets - but utility transmission ...

Goleta Commission Divided Over Proposed Battery Energy Storage System - Noozhawk
Noozhawk
The project could “tap into” the Ellwood Generating Station's Southern California Edison interconnection point and thus not need new development or ...    

California Green Bond Funds     

Why are so many bonds on the California ballot? Here's what $44 billion would buy
CalMatters
In recent years voters approved billions in bond debt for school construction, combatting the effects of climate change and housing for veterans.

California's Prop 38 is an historic approach to funding medical research, immunology The ...
The Cancer Letter
... California's ballot this November. The $8.4 billion bond represents the opportunity to make a long-term investment at precisely the moment when a ...

California Prop. 38 would use bond money to pay for immunology research - CBS News
CBS News
Proposition 38 would sell $8.4 billion in state bonds to raise funding for immunology and immunotherapy research. John Ramos explains the measure ...

California Data Driven Decision Making     

Preparing for California's 2027 Automated Decisionmaking Rules in the Workplace
American Bar Association
That broad scope leaves no doubt that gig workers or even app-based drivers are covered, even though they are classified as independent contractors in ...

California Expands Workplace AI Regulation: What Employers Need to Know About Four New Laws
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
... decisions, technology-driven workforce reductions, and employee ... decision systems (ADS) when making disciplinary and termination decisions.

California To Require Human Corroboration of AI-Driven Discipline and Termination - Aalrr
Aalrr
... decision systems when making disciplinary or termination decisions. ... data analytics, or artificial intelligence that issues simplified output ...

California Microgrids     

Critical Loop Plans 25 MW Industrial Microgrid to Bridge California Grid Delays
Microgrid Media
The Critical Loop microgrid will combine 60 MWh of battery storage with grid imports and backup generation for a Southern California industrial ...

Critical Loop Debuts CLB-5100 Power System with 25 MW SRG COMMERCIAL Deployment
Morningstar
Alongside the deployment, SRG has named Critical Loop its preferred microgrid partner across Southern California for the next 2 years. The ...

Microgrids: Transforming data center energy resilience | TechTarget
TechTarget
Recent events, such as the March 2026 cyberattack in Foster City, California, disrupted internet access for several days, affecting over 30,000 ...

California Carbon Capture Utilization Storage     

California Moves Closer To First-in-the-nation Rules for Carbon Capture and Removal
Carbon Herald
... and a staff report outlining how it intends to oversee carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies.

California expected to align with EU on carbon removal projects -consultancy
Carbon Pulse
California is expected to incorporate offset methodologies for biochar and others under proposed carbon capture, removal, utilisation, and storage ...

Colorado Becomes Seventh State with Class VI Primacy - Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Colorado marks the seventh state to obtain Class VI primacy. Tags: Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage.

California Community Health Risks From Climate Change     

CAL EPA/OEHHA: Report Shows Climate Change Impacts are Accelerating, Demonstrates ...
Maven's Notebook
CalEPA's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment today released the fifth edition of its Indicators of Climate Change in California Report, ...

Climate change already drives displacement across California, says report by UC Berkeley ...
Othering & Belonging Institute - UC Berkeley
Trusted community-based organizations often determine whether emergency response actually reaches the people most at risk. Health, education, and ...

California Releases Fifth Climate Change Assessment, Including New Research on the ... - YubaNet
YubaNet
Its regional and statewide findings are intended to help communities better understand climate-related risks and identify opportunities to prepare for ...

California Low Carbon Funds     

California proposes buffer account for allowances, offsets tied to carbon storage
Carbon Pulse
EU plans to merge renewable and low-carbon fuel emissions rules · UK-based nature finance firm partners with carbon market intermediary · Steelmaker ...

In California, Preparing for the Clean Industry of the Future
Alliance for American Manufacturing
At California Forward's annual economic summit, AAM ... funding focus elsewhere, state level policy discussions continue to view low-carbon ...

Mahoney Environmental expands sustainability compliance support for low carbon fuel programs
Biomass Magazine
... California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard and California Air Resources Board requirements. ... USDA funds biomass supply chain research project.

California Renewable Energy Investments     

California's New Governor Needs to Prioritize Seven Things When it Comes to Energy
The Equation - Union of Concerned Scientists
... investments in grid infrastructure and slow-walking the interconnection of clean energy. Simply put, the status quo is not sustainable. The state ...

California's carbon market changed this year, and the next governor will inherit the fallout
CalMatters
... clean energy and affordable housing. Managing those investments, alongside costs to Californians and emissions cuts, has been a balancing act ...

An affordable energy roadmap for California's next governor - Capitol Weekly
Capitol Weekly
Recent polling shows that a supermajority of likely California voters view clean energy, like renewables and storage, as an affordable way to meet the ...

California Methane Emissions     

Governor Newsom doubles down on methane tracking as Trump moves to weaken pollution ...
Governor of California - CA.gov
California turns methane data into action at home and around the world. California's Satellite Methane Project makes emissions data publicly ...

Anticipated EPA methane rollback proposal would encourage the worst forms of pollution ...
Environmental Defense Fund
... California and Pennsylvania for a year or ... Many major oil and gas companies have already committed to dramatically reducing methane emissions.

Safer, Cleaner Energy for California - PIRG
PIRG
PG&E wants to spend millions replacing old gas pipelines, even though studies show this will do little to address gas pipeline safety and will ...    

California Impact Investing     

Everything you need to know about Props 41 and 42, designed to cancel out billionaire tax
ABC7 News
... investments that we need," said Clarissa Woo Hermosillo with the ACLU of Southern California. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who opposes Prop. 40, has now ...

A changing of the guard as the impact investing market matures - ImpactAlpha
Impact Alpha
... investments at The California Endowment for 11 years. “It has been a privilege to build TCE's impact investing program and to have played an ...

Who Benefits From Universal Prekindergarten? Examining the Complementary Effects of ...
Learning Policy Institute
Between 2009 and 2019, California made major changes to key educational investments for preschool and elementary school students that led to ...