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Happening Now – August 2018

YubaNet - August 1, 2018, 06:58:38 AM

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Video: Nevada County Strike Team still on the Mendocino Complex

Daniel Ramey, PIO Peardale-Chicago Park Fire Dept. - August 17, 2018, 07:08:32 PM

Placer removes dead and dying trees in Foresthill

Placer County - August 17, 2018, 04:09:48 PM

Member of Nevada City-based conspiracy sentenced to 10 years in prison for multi-million dollar bank and title fraud scheme

United States Attorney Eastern District of California - August 17, 2018, 04:06:01 PM

CAL FIRE Awards $415,000 to San Juan Ridge ‘Inimim Forest Project

Yuba Watershed Institute - August 17, 2018, 11:55:34 AM

Search Warrant Service at Illegal Marijuana Grow in Camptonville

Leslie Carbah, Yuba County Sheriff's Office - August 17, 2018, 11:25:05 AM

Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition distributes 200 free bike racks throughout Tahoe Basin

Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition - August 17, 2018, 10:41:38 AM

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California

California Supreme Court Upholds Placement of Glyphosate on State’s Carcinogens List

Center for Food Safety - August 17, 2018, 04:20:38 PM

AG Becerra Helps Secure Victory to Protect Immigrant Children Abused or Neglected in Home Country

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra - August 17, 2018, 12:23:03 PM

California Senate, Assembly Appropriations Committees Advance Pro-Equality Legislation

Equality California - August 17, 2018, 12:22:18 PM

Analysis: In a First, Calif. Bill Would Address Salon Worker Exposures To Toxic Chemicals in Beauty Products

Environmental Working Group - August 17, 2018, 11:18:29 AM

Trump Administration Sued for Failing to Protect Orcas’ West Coast Habitat

Center for Biological Diversity - August 17, 2018, 11:17:34 AM

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USA

Forest Service Announces New Strategy for Improving Forest Conditions

USDA Press Office - August 17, 2018, 11:23:01 AM

Veterans Group Sues Trump Administration for Unlawfully Outsourcing Veterans Policy to Mar-a-Lago Club Members

VoteVets - August 16, 2018, 01:19:03 PM

Immigration Advocates Speak Out on Kavanaugh

Alliance for Justice - August 16, 2018, 01:07:51 PM

Rep. Ted Lieu Calls for DOD IG Investigation into U.S. Role in Civilian Casualties in Yemen

Office of Congressman Ted Lieu - August 15, 2018, 08:36:04 AM

Group calls for halt to BLM Wyoming roundup after foals run to death by helicopters

American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign - August 14, 2018, 01:04:49 PM

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Op-Ed

Thomas J. Rachko, Jr. : White Supremacists See a Friend in Trump

Human Rights Watch - August 14, 2018, 10:59:26 AM

Zachary Mueller: Kris Kobach Sees Threats to Election Integrity Everywhere, but in the Kansas Primary the Biggest Threat Might be Himself

America's Voice - August 14, 2018, 10:58:29 AM

Robert Reich: How Trump’s War on Regulation is Trickle-Down Economics

Robert Reich - August 13, 2018, 12:01:36 PM

Brian Hauss: Donald Trump cannot muzzle federal employees with nondisclosure agreements

ACLU - August 13, 2018, 11:55:32 AM

Frank Sharry to the U.S. Senate: Reject the Nomination of Ronald Vitiello to Head ICE

Frank Sharry, America's Voice - August 10, 2018, 01:44:07 PM

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World

The Elders mourn the loss of Kofi Annan

The Elders - August 18, 2018, 09:32:07 AM

“Bigger, bolder and more inclusive”: Kumi Naidoo sets out his vision for human rights

Amnesty International - August 16, 2018, 10:19:21 AM

First reliable estimates of highly radioactive cesium-rich microparticles released by Fukushima disaster

Goldschmidt Conference - August 15, 2018, 08:35:18 AM

UNICEF appeals for end to ‘war on children’ in Syria and Yemen

UN News - August 14, 2018, 01:10:58 PM

The Taj Mahal is wasting away, and it may soon hit the point of no return

Carolyn Roberts - August 13, 2018, 10:19:29 AM

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Enviro

Federal Judge Strikes Down Administration’s Clean Water Act Attack

Southern Environmental Law Center - August 16, 2018, 01:16:09 PM

Industry’s Delay in Plant Shutdowns Worsened Air Pollution During Hurricane Harvey

Environmental Integrity - August 16, 2018, 01:14:37 PM

Clean Cars Rollback: Trump Plan Purports to Save Lives by Making It Too Expensive to Drive

Public Citizen - August 16, 2018, 01:08:54 PM

Major Gold Mine Decision Ignores Local Voices of Yukon – Kuskokwim Tribes and Residents

Orutsararmiut Native Council - August 14, 2018, 01:16:23 PM

Pruitt’s Wacky WOTUS Repeal Do-Over Digs Deeper Legal Hole

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility - August 14, 2018, 11:00:06 AM

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Sci-Tech

Demonstrated Natural Refrigerant Replacements Could Reduce Energy Costs and Conserve the Environment

American Institute of Biological Sciences - August 14, 2018, 01:42:54 PM

Bioethicist:The Ethics of the Death Penalty Are Clear, It’s Wrong

DePaul University - August 14, 2018, 01:41:32 PM

Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) - August 9, 2018, 10:58:05 AM

Lichen is losing to wildfire, years after flames are gone

YubaNet - August 9, 2018, 09:25:07 AM

Household phenomenon observed by Leonardo da Vinci finally explained by Cambridge research

University of Cambridge - August 8, 2018, 05:31:43 PM

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Life

10th Anniversary of Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act

Consumer Federation of America - August 14, 2018, 11:02:25 AM

Greenpeace partners with Emma Thompson to release animated film about dwindling orangutan population (VIDEO)

Greenpeace - August 14, 2018, 10:57:50 AM

Lab results show many school supplies safe, but some contain asbestos, lead and other hazardous chemicals

U.S. PIRG - August 9, 2018, 09:36:13 AM

Spider-Man in a thong? Indian artist redraws comic covers to call out sexism

Annie Banerji, Thomson Reuters Foundation - August 8, 2018, 04:26:05 PM

Why Americans Go (and Don’t Go) to Religious Services

Pew Research Center - August 1, 2018, 10:05:35 AM

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Cartoons

Their Sunday Best

Taylor Jones - June 18, 2018, 12:36:16 PM

New American ICE Age

Adam Zyglis - June 18, 2018, 12:35:09 PM

Senate Cancels August Recess

R.J. Matson - June 18, 2018, 11:39:34 AM

Evolution of the GOP

R.J. Matson - June 18, 2018, 11:38:28 AM

Comey and Syria

Nate Beeler - April 19, 2018, 08:04:25 PM

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