HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT, STRONG ECONOMY, VIBRANT COMMUNITIES
The federal Department of
Energy on Monday awarded $92 million for 43 clean-energy research
projects across the country, including 11 projects in California that
will receive a total of $22 million. Read More
Plastic bags may have become victims of their own success. Their very ubiquity — an estimated 90 billion plastic bags are used in the United States each year — has led to a small but growing number of jurisdictions discouraging their use through fees or outright bans. Read More
BP plans to begin tests Tuesday of a new undersea cap it hopes will curtail the oil gushing from the Gulf of Mexico and will know within two days if its latest attempt can succeed where numerous others have not. Read More
A mechanical breakdown and construction work at some U.S. sewage facilities allowed more than 2.1 million gallons of wastewater from Mexico to flood the Tijuana River Valley in San Diego County in early June. Read More
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A report of a group of orcas, or killer whales, just four miles offshore from Dana Point prompted Dave and Gisele Anderson of Capt. Dave's Dolphin Safari to jump in their tour boat Wednesday afternoon and snap this picture of one of the five orcas they spotted breaching. The husband-and-wife tour operators say that it is rare for the creatures to come close to shore in this region and that it was the first time they've spotted one in more than three years. Read More
A British panel issued a sweeping exoneration on Wednesday of scientists caught up in the controversy known as Climategate, saying it found no evidence that they had manipulated their research to support preconceived ideas about global warming. Read More
With oil hitting Barataria Bay, a vast estuary in southeast Louisiana that boasts one of the most productive fisheries in the country, local parish officials hatched a plan in May to save the fragile ecosystem: they would build rock dikes across several major tidal inlets between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico to block and then capture the oil. Read More
(Reuters) - BP boss Tony Hayward met officials from an Abu Dhabi state investment fund on Wednesday, the latest stop on an international quest for money to ward off takeovers and help pay the huge costs of the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Read More
The California Department of Labor today (June 29, 2010) awarded the San Diego region a $4 million grant to implement new workforce training programs for careers in the emerging biofuels industry. The San Diego Biofuels Initiative, a collaborative effort including CleanTECH San Diego, BIOCOM, San Diego Regional EDC, San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology (SD-CAB) and the San Diego Workforce Partnership, captured the grant through the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency’s “Green Innovation Challenge.”