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Southern California Edison Reaches Settlement in Malibu Wildfire Investigation
2013-05-22 03:40:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Southern California Edison and the Safety and Enforcement Division of the California Public Utilities Commission have reached an agreement to settle an administrative proceeding relating to three utility poles that were involved in a 2007 Malibu wildfire. read more
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Southern California wildfire nearly 60-percent contained
2013-05-05 05:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A fierce wildfire that had threatened 4,000 homes northwest of Los Angeles was nearly 60-percent contained on Saturday as favorable weather conditions helped beat it back, officials said. "We actually have a pretty good marine layer, which is like thick fog on the coast moving inland, cooler temperatures and higher humidity," Captain Dan Horgon of the Ventura County Fire Department told Reuters. "That coupled with our efforts out there with our firefighters have made the situation quite a bit...
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Southern California coast wildfire threatens 4,000 homes
2013-05-04 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A fierce, wind-whipped wildfire spread on Friday along the California coast northwest of Los Angeles, threatening 4,000 homes and a military base as residents were evacuated ahead of the flames and a university campus was closed. More than 950 firefighters had built containment lines by late afternoon around about 20 percent of the inferno, which has blackened 18,000 acres of dry, dense brush and chaparral since erupting on Thursday morning. More firefighters were said to be on the way. Fire...
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Study: Southern California slammed by weather disasters
2013-04-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KCET: Twenty California counties have endured weather-related disasters since January 2007 that were damaging enough to merit 41 Federal disaster area declarations, and two-thirds of Californians live on counties struck by those disasters. That's according to a report released today by Environment California. The report, entitled "In the Path of the Storm," crunches numbers acquired from FEMA disaster declarations to assess the frequency of extreme weather events and related disasters across the country....
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Southern California sagebrush better suited to climate change, study finds
2013-04-01 20:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: California sagebrush in the southern part of the state will adjust better to climate change than sagebrush populations in the north, according to UC Irvine researchers in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology affiliated with the Center for Environmental Biology. The results of their study, which appears online in Global Change Biology, will assist land management and policy decisions concerning coastal sage scrub restoration. California sagebrush (Artemisia californica), also known...
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