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  • California passes major climate bills to reduce emissions by 2030

    By Rebecca Campbell |
    SACRAMENTO – The state of California recently passed two climate change bills to help tackle North America’s emissions targets with California aiming to reduce its carbon pollution to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.

  • Court sides with marine mammal advocates in naval sonar lawsuit

    By Taryn Phaneuf |
    SAN FRANCISCO — The federal agency tasked with granting the U.S. Navy permission to use low-frequency active sonar for training, testing and routine operations in oceans around the world didn’t do enough to protect marine mammals, a panel of judges in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided recently.

  • Courts halt Minnesota ban on coal-fired power

    By Edward Bassett |
    SAN FRANCISCO – A Minnesota law banning the importation of electricity from coal-fired power plants in other states does not threaten California’s more narrowly written environmental laws largely because it has been struck down recently by both a U.S. district court and a federal appeals court.