By Matt Weiser -
Updated: Saturday, November 7 2009 - 9:30 am
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday began signing bills in the just-passed five-bill water package. Early next week, he's expected to sign the centerpiece, an $11.14 billion general obligation bond assailed by critics as a "Christmas tree" of spending. Here are the details.
By Matt Weiser -
Published: Tuesday, November 3 2009 - 12:00 am
The U.S. Forest Service has been cited for water quality violations at five Lake Tahoe projects, including a controversial logging operation in the 2007 Angora fire burn area.
By Jim Sloan -
Updated: Sunday, November 1 2009 - 9:28 am
Few businesses feel as threatened by global warming as the ski industry.
Published: Saturday, October 31 2009 - 12:00 am
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District has received a $4.3 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to help link residential solar panels in Rancho Cordova to its emerging interactive "smart grid" system.
By Jim Wasserman -
Updated: Wednesday, October 28 2009 - 8:30 am
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District on Tuesday scored $127.5 million in federal stimulus funds to install "smart meters" in every home and business in its territory – the first step in giving local consumers real-time, online information about their energy use.
By Dan Walters -
Published: Wednesday, October 28 2009 - 12:00 am
They're fighting over water in the Capitol, but lurking just below the surface is the real issue – how and where California develops land in the years and decades ahead.
