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LISBON — Five years ago, the leaders of this sun-scorched, wind-swept nation made a bet: To reduce Portugal’s dependence on imported fossil fuels, they embarked on an array of ambitious renewable energy projects — primarily harnessing the country’s wind and hydropower, but also its sunlight and ocean waves.
The Air Resources Board took another step today toward its implementation of a state law meant to encourage local governments to adopt planning and transportation policies that cut automobile use and lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
(08-10) 04:00 PDT Sacramento --
The California Legislature voted Monday night to pull the $11 billion water bond from November's ballot and delay it for two years, a move that came as backers of the proposal became increasingly concerned about its prospects at the polls.
Backers of electric cars are showing where drivers will be able to charge up around San Diego County in an effort to battle “range anxiety” — the fear that an electric car’s battery will run out of power and strand the driver.
SAN DIEGO -- When it comes to the prospect of turning wastewater into drinking water, a new report from the non-partisan research group Equinox Center shows it could be safer than most would think.
As San Diego's City Council prepares Tuesday to consider spending $6.6 million on a purified sewage demonstration plant, new analysis from a nonpartisan local nonprofit concludes the new drinking water source would be "a strong, viable addition" to the region's water portfolio.
For the past decade, surfers and others have complained about an unusual odor wafting over the sand and waves of Imperial Beach.
It’s often described as having a detergentlike quality, and it comes with shimmery bubbles in the surf zone. One scientific paper calls it “smelly water.”
An experimental “Green Hornet” fighter jet that uses biofuel. The “Prius” warship running on a hybrid engine.
The Navy is increasingly going green thanks largely to a desire to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels that come from hostile places in the world. The Navy, the Pentagon’s second-largest user of oil, also sees it as an expensive bill to pay as budgets get leaner.
The San Diego City Council on Tuesday will dive into the touchy topic of reclaiming wastewater for use in a drinking water reservoir.
City staff is asking the council to approve a $6.6 million contract with the global engineering firm Camp Dresser and McKee to design, test and operate a small-scale advanced water treatment plant.
San Diego's City Council voted 6-2 to award a $6.6 million contract to build a recycled sewage demonstration plant today, marking a legislative shift in favor of a new water supply that's long been politicized and, at times, demonized.