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Playing politics w/ California drought
2014-02-03 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: As California's drought continues, and more than a dozen rural communities ponder what to do when their drinking water runs out sometime in March, it would be nice if the state's Republican politicians brought some straightforward plans for relief to the table. But what many of them are bringing instead is a tired political tactic barely, and laughably, disguised as a remedy for the lack of rainfall. The "man-made California drought" is the term House Republicans use to describe the state's current...
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California May Have Hit Its Driest Point in 500 Years, and the Effects Are Frightening
2014-02-03 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: California is dry as a bone, and the effects are like something out of an apocalyptic film. Cities are running out of water. Communities are fighting over what little water there is. Local governments are imposing rationing coupled with steep fines. Fires are ravaging the state. Entire species and industries are threatened. For California, 2013 was the driest year since the state started measuring rainfall in 1849. Paleoclimatologist B. Lynn Ingram says that, according to the width of old tree...
Why not get tough on water use, California?
2014-02-03 02:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: To hear Gov. Jerry Brown tell it, California is in a "mega drought" -- perhaps the worst dry spell it's ever known. So why does he keep calling for voluntary water conservation? The governor met with Southern California water officials Thursday morning and, again, they bemoaned the seriousness of the drought. Yet the general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California -- the wholesaler that delivers most of the region's water supply -- reiterated the governor's call for voluntary...
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National Beef to close processing plant in California
2014-02-03 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
National Beef Packing Company plans to close its processing facility in Brawley, California, a move which will affect around 1,300 employees.
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Murray's Cheese shop, a Greenwich Village icon, comes to California
2014-02-02 05:00:58| Grocery - Topix.net
New Yorker Rob Kaufelt has been proprietor of Murray's Cheese Shop, the Greenwich Village icon of New York's culinary scene he created, since 1991, and was pivotal in helping shape a craving in New Yorkers for cheese beyond the generic orange stuff.
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