A natural gas leak with seemingly no end

02-01-2016

<a href="http://www.marketplace.org/">http://www.marketplace.org/</a> - Ingrid Lobet

A giant stream of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is blowing hundreds of feet into the air in Los Angeles County for the seventh week.

California Is Building The Country's Largest Solar Desalination Plant

12-16-2015

Adele Peters

If you want to take a shower or wash dishes in East Porterville, California, you'll probably have to use a bucket. The water stopped running in most houses over a year ago. But nearby, farmers are paying to get rid of around 300 billion gallons of water a year.

CA known geothermal resource areas

Submitted by eortiz5000 on Wed, 05/29/2013 - 12:25

In 2007, geothermal energy in our state produced 13,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity. Combined with another 440 GWh of imported geothermal electricity, then geothermal energy produced 4.5 percent of the state's total system power. A total of 43 operating geothermal power plants with an installed capacity of nearly 1,800 megawatts are in California, about two-thirds of the total United States' geothermal generation.

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A breakdown of California's pollution sources

Submitted by eortiz5000 on Wed, 05/29/2013 - 11:36
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http://www.endurobox.com/blog/california-carbon-tax-experiment-kyoto-protocol/

California has adopted a cap and trade approach to taxing carbon emissions, which sets an upper limit on allowable levels of carbon and permits the purchase of carbon credits to offset emissions.

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