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Mandatory Water Usage Cuts Loom in California Even for Those with Senior Water Rights
2015-05-22 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: In the 1976-77 drought, the state ordered growers with some of the oldest water rights in California to stop pumping from many rivers and streams. Now, in a sign of the spreading pain of another punishing drought, regulators are preparing to do the same thing. The State Water Resources Control Board halted diversions last summer by many so-called junior rights holders - those whose claims date back only as far as 1914. In the last month, the board ordered some 9,000 junior rights holders in the...
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Finding California oil spill's cause could take months
2015-05-22 11:29:25| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The operator of a broken oil pipeline that fouled a California shoreline says it could be weeks or even months before investigators are able to determine what caused the break and subsequent spill. Crews have yet to excavate the broken piece of pipeline, which under the law must be done in the presence of federal regulators and a third party, officials with Plains All American Pipeline LP said at a Thursday night news conference at the Santa Barbara County beach where the spill occurred two days earlier.
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Finding California Oil Spill's Cause Could Take Months
2015-05-22 11:04:43| Energy - Topix.net
The operator of a broken oil pipeline that fouled a California shoreline says it could be weeks or even months before investigators are able to determine what caused the break and subsequent spill. Crews have yet to excavate the broken piece of pipeline, which under the law must be done in the presence of federal regulators and a third party, officials with Plains All American Pipeline LP said at a Thursday night news conference at the Santa Barbara County beach where the spill occurred two days earlier.
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Regulators deny request to idle California nuclear plant
2015-05-22 06:10:08| Energy - Topix.net
Federal regulators have turned away a request from environmental activists to idle the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant because of potential earthquake risks. However, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision Thursday left unresolved questions about whether the agency allowed owner Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
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Anthem Blue Cross names new California president
2015-05-22 04:24:53| Biotech - Topix.net
Anthem Blue Cross , one of the state's and the Bay Area's largest health plans, has named a new president to succeed Mark Morgan , who left last month for Amgen Inc. Replacing Morgan is J. Brian Ternan , who will oversee Anthem's commercial health plan business in California. He starts Tuesday, May 26, and is so new he doesn't have an official Anthem photograph yet.
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