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A request from San Diego Gas & Electric to lobby on the alternative energy program community choice aggregation has been suspended for up to four months. -
Volunteers for the San Diego Audubon Society counted more bird species this year than last. Experts say this will yield insights on climate change. -
Far more methane — a powerful greenhouse gas — is emitted into the atmosphere during the Arctic region's coldest months than was previously believed. -
A methane leak in Los Angeles is a huge, dangerous, environmental disaster. A judge allows a police shooting video to be released to the news media. The civilian watchdog for the SDPD is pretty toothless. -
The City Council unanimously approved a Climate Action Plan backed by the mayor -
The San Diego City Council will vote Tuesday afternoon on Mayor Kevin Faulconer's Climate Action Plan, which lays out a set of guidelines to cut the city's greenhouse gas emissions. -
The warming of the Pacific Ocean could bring storms triggering flooding, evacuations, power outages and landslides. -
KPBS Midday EditionChula Vista Mayor Mary Casillas Salas is one of 11 U.S. mayors attending COP21, the climate conference in Paris. She's there because her city has been a leader in carbon reduction for over a decade. -
Most California residents think global warming is serious, far outpacing how the rest of the country feels. -
KPBS Midday EditionVeerabhadran Ramanathan discovered the greenhouse effects of CFCs in 1975. Decades later he persuaded Pope Francis to raise awareness of the effects of climate change on society, especially the poor.
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