Fabian Nunez, the leader of California's Assembly, says California's climate plan is the most important legislation he's ever sponsored.
California's allowed to have stricter rules curbing pollution from autos than the federal government does, and other states can choose between the federal standard and California's.
Located near San Clemente, the San Onofre nuclear plant's twin reactors are "Southern California's largest and most reliable sources of electricity, " according to Southern California Edison's website.
Environmentalists say California's action is significant because the state is so large and because other states and the federal government often follow California's lead on environmental policy.
California's Department of Water Resources says it would like ocean water desalination to add 500, 000 acre-feet a year of water to the Golden State's supplies, a modest amount compared with California's overall water consumption.
PPIC, lies in racial and ethnic differences: California's Latinos, who make up 35% of the population, and blacks (around 7%) are much more likely to be overweight than California's non-Hispanic whites (45%) or Asians (12%).
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What California's highway department described as "hundreds of vehicles" got stuck on State Route 58 between Bakersfield and the community of Tehachapi on Tuesday night, California's highway department reported, and at least a few big rigs and some cars remained Wednesday morning, a highway patrol dispatcher said.
RUTHERFORD, California (CNN) -- It's the middle of harvest in California's wine country, a busy time for wine makers.
The death penalty measure is the fifth to qualify for November's ballot, California's secretary of state said on Monday.
The only recent major-college punishment more severe than Ohio State's was Southern California's, which is concluding a two-year postseason ban this season.
His portraits of these mothers and their makeshift homes have the clear-eyed empathy found in many of Lange's images from California's Central Valley.
Tuesday's hearing involved California's Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage.
The DOMA argument followed Tuesday's case over California's ban on same-sex marriage, a case in which the justices indicated they might avoid a major national ruling on whether America's gays and lesbians have a right to marry.
The couple's five children include California's first lady, Maria Shriver.
Those factors have an impact on the ranking, helping drive New Jersey's Hunterdon County and California's Santa Clara County, near San Jose, to Nos. 4 and 17, respectively.
Yesterday's deal may solve California's immediate budgetary problems but it does little to address the structure of the underlying revenue-raising and budget-setting process, which are the cause of perennial strife for the state.
Now fully supportive, he's said would strike down California's law if he sat on the Supreme Court.
Idaho's situation seems oddly like California's in the 1970s.
You may have seen ViaSat's van driving down Southern California's freeways, but the rig has just arrived in Orlando, for some additional testing a few degrees away from the company's Carlsbad home.
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Nanayang's EMBA participants can complete some study modules in the U.S. at the University of California's Berkeley business school campus as part of the Advanced Management Program.
The backstory of the lost fourth-gen iPhone prototype acquired by Gizmodo last week is certainly already the stuff of some legend, but hold on tight, because it just got even wilder: Giz editor Jason Chen's house was apparently raided by California's REACT computer crimes task force under the authority of a search warrant on Friday night and his computers and several other items were seized.
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But no state in the U.S. faces problems as big as California's.
New York's total debt is second only to California's among the states.
That it is in Mexico, not the U.S., comes by dint of California's rejection of all LNG proposals on environmental and security grounds.
The wildest stretch of U.S. shoreline south of Alaska is California's lost coast, a 25-mile-long burl of rock thrust into, and pounded by, the Pacific.
About 70% of a prison's costs go on personnel, and California's guards not only have the highest wages but the most generous pension and health-care benefits.
Haage said the commission is hopeful Parker's assistance will help it spread more information about California's coastal resources.
"We are seeing that a better fourth quarter isn't that much talk, it's actual action, " said Daniel Penrod of California's Credit Union League.
And their business plan explicitly assumes that a lot of the trade between Asia and America's east and Gulf coasts will be diverted from California's ports to the canal.
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