Cost-effective and stable production of gas, electricity, water, and other critical California public utilities are the backbone of economic stability. Preventing price gouging, ensuring ample corporate competition, maintaining transparency between industrial special interests and Sacramento, and providing high quality service for local and statewide communities are several of the key priorities for independent-minded voters. Moving forward, independents will be paying close attention to California public utility solutions that strike the proper balance between environmental protection and laissez-faire economics.
On Wednesday, TransCanada, the company planning the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, submitted alternate routes for the project after much criticism over its possibly harmful environmental effects.
The Deschutes River Conservancy is working with business, providing incentives to landowners to leave unused, paid for water in the river
It is possible – even likely – that the fracking process to extract natural gas and oil from underground rock formations causes earthquakes, in addition to groundwater contamination and air pollution.
South Dakota uses wind power to produce 22% of its power. Iowa was next with 19%. The top 10 states are equally red and blue. The key factor does not appear to be political ideology or a belief that climate change is happening, but rather, is the wind blowing hard in our state?
Warmer winter temperatures may have seemed a welcome change from recent extremely cold weather, such as the record breaking winter of 2010, but what are the effects of these abnormal temperatures on climate and wildlife?
With Earth Day coming up this weekend, it might be helpful to remember that the worst polluter on planet Earth is not a major corporation, but the U.S. federal government.
A new piece of legislation introduced by Assemblyman Paul Fong (D-Mountain View) seeks to combine California’s love of all things “green” with its penchant for adopting policies geared toward providing social justice.
