California Environmental News

Thursday, September 9th, 2010
New Bedford, Massachusetts and Dutch Harbor-Unalaska, Alaska Remain Top Fishing Ports
... 170.0 Port Hueneme-Oxnard-Ventura, California 46.3 ...

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
U.S. E.P.A. designates area off Guam for disposal of clean sediments from dredging
...al location in E.P.A. Region 9. There are five sites off the Hawaiian islands, and six more off the California coast. Copies of Final Rule and supporting d...

Friday, September 3rd, 2010
D.O.E. reaches an arrangement in principle on the cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab location in Simi Valley
... WASHINGTON, D.C. - The D.O.E. announced today that it has reached an arrangement in principle with California's Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) a...

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
U.S.D.A. and D.O.E. Partnership Looks for to Develop Better Plants for Bioenergy
...include: USDA-ARS Western Regional Research Center, Albany, Calif., $949,348 University of California, Berkeley, Calif., $793,413 University of De...

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
NETL Researchers Awarded Supercomputer Time through DOE’s Office of Science
...ter-related research over an 18-month award period at NERSC's facility located at LBNL in Berkeley, California NERSC's facility annually serves about 3,000 scie...

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
U.S. E.P.A. to Establish Nation’s Biggest Coastal No-Sewage Zone/ E.P.A. to sign rule preventing large ships from discharging 20 million gallons of sewage along California’s 1,624 mile coastline
...ischarges from large cruise ships and most other large ocean-going ships to the marine waters along California's entire coastline. This will establish the bigge...

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
N.O.A.A. Commissions New Research Ship Bell M. Shimada
...r U.S. scientists. The ship will operate primarily in U.S. waters from Washington state to southern California. The N.O.A.A. fleet of ships and aircraft is ...

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Penn State to Lead Philadelphia-Based Team that will Pioneer New Energy-Efficient Building Designs
...eling and simulation for nuclear reactors. In July, the Department announced that a team led by the California Institute of Technology will establish a Hub focu...

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
U.S. Declares $26 Million Bankruptcy Settlement with Chemical Manufacturer
...or cleanups at numerous Superfund sites, including remediation activities in the states of Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Louisi...