{"id":63938,"date":"2024-04-12T17:12:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=63938"},"modified":"2024-04-12T17:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:12:55","slug":"californias-very-good-climate-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=63938","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Very Good Climate Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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SACRAMENTO\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 This was a very good week for the climate in California, keeping up the fight to protect our communities from the climate crisis and accelerating\u00a0the transition to clean energy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Court reaffirms California\u2019s right to fight vehicle pollution.<\/strong>\u00a0California won a\u00a0major legal victory to protect communities from dirty air and the climate crisis<\/a>, defeating the fossil fuel industry. The federal appeals court reaffirmed our decades-old authority to innovate new clean-car standards to cut the world\u2019s biggest source of pollution.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Making cleaner, greener cement.\u00a0<\/strong>Roughly 8% of global emissions are caused by manufacturing, one of the larger contributors to the climate crisis. A\u00a0California startup<\/a>\u00a0that just opened in Redding developed innovative technology to cut these emissions, capturing the carbon dioxide from when the cement is made and using it to make more cement.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Clean energy in tribal communities.\u00a0<\/strong>A cutting-edge\u00a0microgrid project<\/a>\u00a0funded by a $32 million state grant will support energy sovereignty and sustainable economic growth for the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians, one of the largest to benefit a California Native American tribe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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$75 million for clean water innovation.\u00a0<\/strong>California\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is pioneering cutting-edge technologies to produce more clean water, everything from wastewater recycling to desalination to water efficiency. The U.S. Department of Energy\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0$75 million to continue these innovations<\/a>, on top of $2.5 million the state invested in this program.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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$58 million for climate-resilient infrastructure.\u00a0<\/strong>The Biden-Harris Administration\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0that California received six grants to protect infrastructure from the climate crisis, funding\u00a0projects<\/a>\u00a0in California to upgrade roads, protect against flooding, improve safety, and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Leading the country in solar power.\u00a0<\/strong>A new report showed that California is a\u00a0solar superpower<\/a>, leading the nation with 68,816 gigawatt-hours of electricity produced by the sun \u2013 a 9% increase from the previous year. And, the state\u2019s grid\u00a0broke a record<\/a>\u00a0for solar generation, with 17,170 megawatts on Wednesday afternoon; the next day\u00a0another record<\/a>\u00a0was set by the grid, with 86% of demand being served by solar generation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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First EV freight truck crosses the U.S.-Mexico border.\u00a0<\/strong>New EV charging infrastructure, which was funded by a California climate grant, and a partnership between SDG&E and Bali Express has resulted in a significant milestone in binational relations and clean energy \u2013 the\u00a0first of many EV freight trucks to transport goods between the United States and Mexico<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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