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Happening Now – August 2019

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Latest Regional

Work Begins on Ponderosa West Grass Valley Defense Zone Shaded Fuel Break

NCSO arrest suspect in vehicle pursuits at home without incident

Tahoe National Forest enters into fire restrictions effective today

Warmer temperatures expected across interior NorCal today as high pressure strengthens

New Data Shows Insurance Is Becoming Harder to Find as a Result of Wildfires

USGS awards $12.5 million for ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system

California

PCFFA Reacts to News of Jeopardy Finding for Salmon, Southern Resident Killer Whales

Dan Bacher: California regulators continue to allow oil field wastewater injection into protected groundwater

AG Becerra Denounces Trump Administration Rule Allowing Prolonged Detention of Children

California Home to 1 out of 7 U.S. Clean Energy Jobs

Governor Gavin Newsom Signs Use-of-force Bill

USA

Lawsuit seeks court action to prevent deaths and neglect in ICE detention

Knight Institute Challenges DOJ’s Claimed Authority to Categorically Withhold Key Legal Opinions

Foreign Student Visa Issuance Is Down Over 40 Percent

Danish PM ‘surprised and disappointed’ over cancelled Trump visit

New Rules Allow Indefinite Detention of Children

Op-Ed

Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro: We cannot allow systematic, government-sanctioned child abuse on our watch

Josue De Luna Navarro: What it’s like to grow up hunted

Angelica Salas: The president has decided torture works and he’s inflicting it on brown children

Michael Brune: Trump Keeps Lying about the Reality of his Dangerous Clean Cars Rollback

David Wright: Why Did the Pentagon Conduct a Treaty-Violating Test?

World

IRC: US Administration’s proposed abrogation of Flores Settlement threatens safety of children

States must do more to stop hate crimes and promote interfaith initiatives, say UN rights experts

Yemen: Coalition Warships Attack Fishing Boats

New statistics highlight trapping threat for international trade of Asia’s most popular songbird

Australia: Inquiry into Rule Putting Older People at Risk

Enviro

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Attack on Endangered Species Act

South Dakota Ground Zero for Trump Water Rollbacks

Farmers, Conservationists Challenge Approval of Monsanto’s Crop-damaging Dicamba Pesticide

Compost Key to Sequestering Carbon in the Soil

The Gas Field Next Door: Living Amid Old Storage Wells at Risk of Leaks

Sci-Tech

Gran Canaria wildfire

More persistent heat, drought and rain in a warming world – study

Study: Human impacts on oceans nearly doubled in recent decade

First evidence of human-caused climate change melting the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Hubble Showcases New Portrait of Jupiter

Life

A Woman’s Right to Vote: New film traces struggle behind 19th Amendment

Financial abuse of older adults by family members more common than scams by strangers

How to stroke a cat, according to science

This Shark Week, help save sharks from cruelties like finning

CFA: Nation’s Top Consumer Complaints

Cartoons

White nationalism

Trump Kicks McCain Headstone

John McCain

Jacksonville Prayers

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