Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity in California.
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California enacts laws restricting chatbots and banning teens from ‘addictive’ social media
California teens will be barred from “addictive” social media products and limited in their interactions with chatbots under two of the 13 bills signed into law Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to protect kids online.
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Industry interests spent big money to stop California from banning PFAS pesticides
After an aggressive lobbying campaign against a bill to ban “forever pesticides” in California, what passed instead “is a shell of what we set out to do,” its author said.
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California officials allow plans for the country’s biggest kelp farm to move forward
The California Coastal Commission voted Wednesday to allow a plan to build the United States’ largest kelp farm 6 miles off the Ventura County coast to move forward as the Trump administration seeks to ramp up aquaculture in the Pacific Ocean.
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Steve Hilton: Abolish the DMV
Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton says he wants to abolish the California Department of Motor Vehicles by transferring its functions to a combination of online services and local county offices. If elected, he says he would also cap the annual vehicle registration at a flat fee of $73.
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California’s healthcare affordability office claims power to punish overspending hospitals
New penalties can fine California hospitals and insurers up to 125% of their overspending, with enforcement starting as early as 2028. Hospital executives argue that much of their spending, like drug costs and labor, is outside their control.
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Psychedelic Furthur bus rolls back into San Francisco for new Grateful Dead exhibit
Ken Kesey’s psychedelic bus, Furthur, is the centerpiece of an exhibition celebrating the legacy of the Grateful Dead that opens Saturday in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
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Court stalls EPA plan to override California’s vehicle pollution standards
A temporary injunction bars the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring congressional approval of a decades-old exemption allowing California to set its own clean-vehicle standards.
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Trump administration ratchets up its fight to get more oil flowing from California
The Trump administration’s latest salvo in its efforts to get more crude flowing through the Golden State is a federal review of California’s coastal management program, which is run largely by a state commission that has had a powerful role for decades in shaping development along the coast.
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Gloria Steinem, a potent voice of U.S. feminism and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at 92
Gloria Steinem, the celebrated author and activist who became one of the most visible symbols and potent voices of the U.S. women’s movement and a fierce advocate for feminist causes throughout her life, has died. She was 92.
