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Happening Now – June 2019

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Latest Regional

Overnight Paving and Grinding Work Begins on I-80 in Placer County

NCSO warns of phone scam targeting sex offender registrants

Nevada County Supervisors learn about local CAL FIRE resources and facilities

Unprecedented funding for research into atmospheric rivers and stormwater capture in California approved by legislature

PG&E resuming annual tree patrols, tree pruning in Paradise

Stanford researchers explain what to expect from wildfire season this year and in the future

California

Feinstein Applauds Governor, Legislature for Protecting California Racehorses

State Agencies Seek Input on Creating Climate-Resilient Water System

AG Becerra Files Lawsuit to Block Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint

Flex Alert – a call for energy conservation – in effect today

Models Suggest Faults are Linked Through California’s Imperial Valley

USA

Cummings Statement After OSC Recommends Trump Remove Kellyanne Conway for Hatch Act Violations

Court Rules in Favor Young Immigrant Women in ACLU Abortion Case

FEC Chair Weintraub: Statement Regarding Illegal Contributions From Foreign Governments

Harris, Colleagues Call Out State Department’s Refusal to Let Pride Flags Fly at Embassies

The Defense Department is worried about climate change – and also a huge carbon emitter

Op-Ed

Jon Allsop: After two inglorious years, Sarah Huckabee Sanders will leave the White House

Neema Singh Guliani: ACLU Statement on Border Patrol Data Breach

Wenonah Hauter: Single-Use Plastic Bans: Good for Our Food, Water and Planet

Gretchen Goldman: Wheeler’s Breathtaking Ignorance of Science, in One Comment

Lee McIntyre: Is Robert Mueller an antique? The role of the facts in a post-truth era

World

Refugees and migrants from Venezuela top 4 million: UNHCR and IOM

The first UN World Food Safety Day to be marked on Friday 7 June

UN Human Rights Chief deplores killings and detentions amid peaceful protests in Sudan

How protected areas are losing ground in the U.S. and Amazonia

UN: Focus on Civilians With Disabilities in Wartime

Enviro

Greenpeace report: U.S. retailers failing to address plastic pollution crisis

New Report Details Vast Scope and Scale of Emerging Fracking Infrastructure Boom

Working Landscapes Can Support Diverse Bird Species

Group appeals against proposed national high-level radioactive waste dump in New Mexico

Combination of water scarcity and inflexible demand puts world’s river basins at risk

Sci-Tech

Almost 400 medical practices found ineffective in analysis of 3,000 studies

Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal

Extreme Arctic coast erosion revealed by drone images

2019 ‘Dead Zone’ May be the Second Largest on Record

New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced life in the universe

Life

Bats Pose Highest Rabies Risk in U.S.

Toxic Algae Blooms: What You Should Know

Could you fail a drug test by taking CBD? (VIDEO)

Tennis World Unites in Fight against Climate Change

Largest Nationwide Trails Event to Take Place on June 1, 2019

Cartoons

White nationalism

Trump Kicks McCain Headstone

John McCain

Jacksonville Prayers

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