[Source: Los Angeles Times] To meet the bold new climate change goals put in place last year, California will work to put millions of electric cars on the road, revolutionize its dairy industry and generate half of all power from solar panels and other renewable sources. But those efforts will come up short, warn state Read More…
Month: March 2017
California exports its poor to Texas, other states, while wealthier people move in
[Source: The Sacramento Bee] California exports more than commodities such as movies, new technologies and produce. It also exports truck drivers, cooks and cashiers. Every year from 2000 through 2015, more people left California than moved in from other states. This migration was not spread evenly across all income groups, a Sacramento Bee review of Read More…
Environmental programs face deep cuts under budget proposal
[Source: Associated Press] The Trump administration would slash programs aimed at slowing climate change and improving water safety and air quality, while eliminating thousands of jobs, according to a draft of the Environmental Protection Agency budget proposal obtained by The Associated Press. Under the tentative plan from the Office of Management and Budget, the agency’s Read More…
Economist says job creation ‘miserable’ as Orange County market slows
[Source: The Orange County Register] Orange County’s job growth has slowed dramatically as the county has neared what economists consider full employment and the cost of housing continues to rise. Payrolls grew by 1.1 percent to 1,572,300 from January 2016 to January this year, state employment officials said Friday. Last March the year-over-year job growth Read More…
LA County, Inland Empire post heavy job losses in January
[Source: Los Angeles Daily News] Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire saw heavy job losses in January following the meager gains that were posted in December, but California still managed to add nearly 10,000 jobs, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday. L.A. County employers shed 78,700 jobs in January, fueled primarily by a Read More…
San Jose area, Oakland area job markets wobble, sparking economic uncertainty
[Source: East Bay Times] The job markets in Santa Clara County and the East Bay slumped to start out the year, according to a state labor report released Friday that indicated some cracks have materialized in the region’s employment sector. Santa Clara County lost 3,500 jobs while the Alameda County-Contra Costa County area lost 900 Read More…
How new Southern California air cleanup plan could affect warehouses, ports
[Source: The Press Enterprise] Southern California air quality officials approved a 15-year pollution clean-up plan Friday, March 3, after adding provisions that would eventually eliminate a pollution-credits marketplace that regulates emissions from oil refineries and other major smokestack polluters. But the 11-2 vote by the South Coast Air Quality Management District board left intact controversial Read More…
California Supreme Court says officials’ emails are public records
[Source: Associated Press] The public has a right to access emails and text messages about government business on the private phones and accounts of state and local officials and employees, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday. In a unanimous decision, the court said those communications were subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act Read More…