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California High-Speed Rail Authority Sues Trump Administration Over Terminating Grant…

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California’s high-speed rail agency announced Tuesday it is suing the U.S. Department of Transportation and its senior officials over the Trump administration’s decision to terminate a $929-million grant for the state’s beleaguered bullet train. In a 20-page complaint filed in U.S. District Court, the state effectively accuses the administration of playing politics with a decision […]

California Stripped of $930M in High-Speed Rail Funding…

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The Trump administration will terminate its agreement with California to fund the state’s struggling high-speed rail project, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) said Thursday. In a letter to state officials, Administrator Ronald Batory said FRA would deobligate the $928.6 million set aside for the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) under a 2010 agreement. The agency […]

PG&E Power Lines Caused California’s Deadliest Fire…

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Investigators with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection have concluded that Pacific Gas & Electric equipment caused the devastating Camp fire that destroyed nearly 14,000 homes and killed 85 people, most of them elderly, last year. The conclusion of the Cal Fire probe marks a milestone in the recovery from the worst wildfire […]

Trump Opens Another 730K Acres of California to Oil and Gas Drilling…

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The Trump administration finalized plans Thursday to open nearly 730,000 acres of public lands and mineral estate across California’s Central Coast and the San Francisco Bay Area to new oil and gas drilling. The move ends over five years of no oil and gas leases, after a 2013 legal challenge against proposed expansion of oil […]

Mystery Surcharge Among Taxes, Fees Added to Gasoline in California…

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A University of California, Berkeley professor is drawing attention to a gasoline “mystery surcharge” in the state – unexplained price increases in gasoline which have cost drivers $20 billion since 2015. Severin Borenstein, professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and former chairman of the state’s Petroleum Market Advisory Committee, has spent several years […]

California ‘House of Horrors’ Parents Sentenced to Life in Prison…

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The California “house of horrors” parents who abused and tortured 12 of their 13 children were sentenced to life in prison Friday with the possibility of parole after 25 years. Some of the children of the couple spoke in a packed courtroom ahead of their parents’ sentencing. Judge Bernard Schwartz said the children were not […]

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