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A lot of companies want the EPA in charge of setting national climate regulations because it helps shield them from lawsuits and creates a predictable environment in which to make investments.
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San Diego artists will "activate" the city's park system starting this weekend through November, with a series of installations, workshops and site-specific art — part of a pandemic-era civic arts funding initiative. -
Event organizers expect thousands of San Diegans to bike to work Thursday. -
Air filtration in modern buildings is not designed to keep people safe from increasingly contagious airborne illnesses, and that probably has to change. -
The coastal cloud cover traditionally keeps spring and early summer temperatures comfortable in San Diego. -
Many people move without realizing the danger that wildfires pose to their new home. A new risk rating system could help buyers learn more on real estate sites. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom had supported the plant, arguing that it was needed as the state grapples with a drought that is expected to worsen in coming years. But opponents said it would kill billions of tiny marine organisms that form the basis of the food chain and called the plant costly and unnecessary. -
The move has to be adopted unanimously, and Hungary — with a state oil company dependent on Russian imports and a populist leader friendlier toward Putin than most — has refused to go along. -
Environmentalists oppose the plant and say it will damage marine life and is vulnerable to flooding from sea level rise.
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SoCal Edison says in a report to the California Public Utilities Commission an investigation is underway but that there was circuit activity close to the reported time of the fire. -
If supervisors vote yes in June, the county will spend $640,000 to buy the land from the Revocable Trust of Donald J. Metzler and Diane W. Metzler.
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