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California Senate Approves Statewide Smartphone Kill Switch
2014-05-10 04:36:27| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
Apple and Microsoft got onboard with an amended bill, inspiring a final 26-8 vote in favor of the proposal.
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LA: California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update
2014-05-10 04:16:04| Waste Management - Topix.net
Clean vehicles: S.B. 1204 , Ricardo Lara and Fran Pavley , which passed the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality on a 6-1 vote, was read for the first time in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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California Senate Approves Statewide Smartphone Kill Switch
2014-05-09 18:37:05| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
Apple and Microsoft got onboard with an amended bill, inspiring a final 26-8 vote in favor of the proposal.
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In California, Spigots Start Draining Pockets
2014-05-09 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The municipal water utility in this city, home to wide beaches, sun-kissed weekend getaways and evocative alternative scholarship, just got tough. Last week it started rationing water - for nonfarmers, the most draconian response to date to California's debilitating drought. The message to customers: Use more than your allotment, and it will cost you. A lot. Water bills below the allocation run $40 or so. Go above it, and fines pegged to the amount of excess water used will quickly double, triple...
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5 Dramatic Ways California Is Tackling Drought
2014-05-08 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: California's current drought is not the state's driest spell on record in terms of total precipitation. If the state feels this drought as a particularly severe one, says Peter Gleick, the blame may fall partly on humans. "The severity of the drought has been compounded by poor planning, poor management, and population growth putting pressure on already overcommitted resources," says Gleick, president of the Oakland, California-based Pacific Institute, a nonprofit that conducts interdisciplinary...
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