By Kathryn Reed In order to become a more sustainable city when it comes to electric and natural gas usage, it’s important to know how much of those products is being consumed. South Lake Tahoe’s 100 Percent Renewable Committee this week gave an update to the City Council that included data from the free State […]
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By David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Most years, the amount of greenhouse gases spewed by California’s cars, factories and power plants drops slightly — a hard-won result of the state’s fight against global warming. And in any given year, one big wildfire can wipe out that progress. Over the course of just a few […]
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The Truckee council on Dec. 12 is expected to sign a 10-year agreement with Tahoe Truckee Sierra Disposal. The new agreement includes significant changes to residential and commercial services. The biggest service changes for residents will be the roll-out of containerized recyclable and yard trimming collection. Each household will receive a 64-gallon wheeled blue cart […]
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By Kathryn Reed Power outages are never fun. And when the problem isn’t obvious, it’s worse for everyone – including the crews tasked with solving the issue. Last weekend a swath of the Tahoe Keys was without power. A transformer had gone out in this South Lake Tahoe neighborhood. It needed it replacing. The problem […]
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By Vicki Gonzalez, KCRA-TV The aftermath of relentless winter storms can still be seen throughout El Dorado County, after a series of destructive systems crippled dozens of locations at the start of 2017. “It was a year none of us have really ever seen up here,” John Kahling, with the El Dorado County Department of […]
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By Brian Fung, Washington Post The Federal Communications Commission took aim at a signature Obama-era regulation Tuesday, unveiling a plan that would give Internet providers broad powers to determine what websites and online services their customers see and use. Under the agency’s proposal, providers of high-speed internet services, such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T, would […]
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By Mike Luery, KCRA-TV California is looking to crack down on water wasters and make saving water a way of life — no matter how much it rains. California’s restrictions on water use in September were effective, As a result, the state saw a 15 percent drop in water use. But those emergency regulations expire […]
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By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada’s recreational marijuana continued its strong start through the third full month of sales, data released Monday by the Nevada Department of Taxation show. The state’s licensed and regulated cannabis dispensaries sold approximately $27.7 million in recreational marijuana in September — more than $5 million over the state’s projected […]
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By Jonathan Erdman, Weather Channel Global temperatures are on pace to make 2017 the second warmest year in 137 years of record keeping, according analyses by NASA and the Japanese Meteorological Agency. October 2017 was the second warmest October in records dating to 1880, according to data released by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Only […]
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By Joaquin Palomino and Kimberly Veklerov, San Francisco Chronicle In the early hours of the most destructive firestorm in California history, officials in Napa and Sonoma counties knew their local first responders would be overwhelmed and turned to a statewide mutual-aid system designed to swiftly bring in support crews from other regions to protect homes […]
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