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Plan to shutter Aliso Canyon gas facility isn’t moving fast enough for community activists
1 month, 1 week ago

Plan to shutter Aliso Canyon gas facility isn’t moving fast enough for community activists

LA Times  

North San Fernando Valley residents unfurl a banner during a 2019 rally marking the fourth anniversary of the SoCalGas blowout in Porter Ranch. Here’s what you need to know to start your weekend: Aliso Canyon could shut down in the not-too-distant future Nearly 10 years ago, the Aliso Canyon gas storage leak in Porter Ranch pumped 100,000 tons of methane …

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California regulators propose plan that could close Aliso Canyon. Or is it just ‘kicking the can’?
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1 month, 1 week ago

California regulators propose plan that could close Aliso Canyon. Or is it just ‘kicking the can’?

LA Times  

North San Fernando Valley residents hold a rally near the entrance of Southern California Gas Co.’s Aliso Canyon storage facility in Porter Ranch in October 2019. The California Public Utilities Commission this week unveiled a proposal that could potentially close the Aliso Canyon gas storage field in the coming years, but local activists and politicians say it doesn’t provide a …

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Letters to the Editor: Automate everything? Driverless taxis mean more jobs taken from humans
9 months, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: Automate everything? Driverless taxis mean more jobs taken from humans

LA Times  

To the editor: Corporate greed continues its relentless campaign to automate more and more services in which people were formerly employed, and at which they were able to earn a living. In San Francisco, police and fire officials have documented numerous cases of these vehicles blocking traffic and impeding emergency vehicles while objecting to the expansion of driverless vehicles. Additionally, …

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PG&E penalized $45 million in Dixie fire settlement with CPUC
10 months, 4 weeks ago

PG&E penalized $45 million in Dixie fire settlement with CPUC

LA Times  

Pacific Gas & Electric Company will be penalized $45 million for its involvement in one of the largest and most destructive wildfires in California history under a settlement reached recently between the utility and state regulators. The Dixie fire, which burned nearly 1 million acres and destroyed more than 1,300 homes, ignited July 13, 2021, after a Douglas fir tree …

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Opinion: Here is one way California can end its rooftop solar wars
11 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Here is one way California can end its rooftop solar wars

LA Times  

California needs to accelerate rooftop solar deployment, not constrain it. Because California has long been a leader in rooftop solar policy, the commission’s decisions may be imperiling rooftop solar elsewhere: Last month, Hawaii instituted similar cuts to its incentives. Without incentives, though, it doesn’t make financial sense for most Californians to install rooftop solar, meaning we all get less of …

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Letters to the Editor: Will Newsom go down as the governor who killed solar in California?
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Will Newsom go down as the governor who killed solar in California?

LA Times  

To the editor: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has failed electricity ratepayers, the rooftop solar industry and the need for us to transition away from polluting fossil fuel energy. His appointments to the California Public Utilities Commission, who voted twice in 2023 to reduce incentives for homes and businesses that install solar power systems, prioritize profit for the investor-owned utilities, resulting …

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San Francisco’s North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill
1 year, 4 months ago

San Francisco’s North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill

LA Times  

Cruise AV, General Motor’s autonomous electric Bolt EV, is displayed in Detroit in 2019. At about 11 p.m. Friday, as many as 10 Cruise driverless taxis blocked two narrow streets in the center of the city’s lively North Beach bar and restaurant district. Aaron Peskin, who represents North Beach on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, fears what could happen …

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A vote to empower autonomous ‘robotaxis’ from Cruise and Waymo has divided San Francisco
1 year, 4 months ago

A vote to empower autonomous ‘robotaxis’ from Cruise and Waymo has divided San Francisco

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “You’re going to take away jobs …

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Massive expansion of driverless robotaxis approved for San Francisco despite public safety concerns
1 year, 4 months ago

Massive expansion of driverless robotaxis approved for San Francisco despite public safety concerns

LA Times  

A Waymo driverless taxi stops on a street in San Francisco for several minutes because the back door was not completely shut, while traffic backs up behind it on Feb. 15. San Francisco’s robotaxis have become notorious for “bricking”— or coming to a dead stop — in traffic, clogging lanes for emergency vehicles, blocking firetrucks from leaving stations, stopping on …

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Editorial: Slow the roll of robotaxis. They aren’t safe enough yet to take over California’s streets
1 year, 5 months ago

Editorial: Slow the roll of robotaxis. They aren’t safe enough yet to take over California’s streets

LA Times  

Two Cruise robotaxis drive through police tape into an emergency scene, where electrical wires became snarled on the rooftop lidar sensors. Despite protests from emergency personnel and city officials, the California Public Utilities Commission has indicated in filings that it intends to let Waymo and Cruise expand service with an unlimited number of driverless taxis collecting fares throughout San Francisco …

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Column: As help pours in for World War II vet, 102, with huge bill, SoCalGas wants a rate hike
1 year, 9 months ago

Column: As help pours in for World War II vet, 102, with huge bill, SoCalGas wants a rate hike

LA Times  

Paul Hult, a 102-year-old World War II veteran shown in his Hollywood apartment, reluctantly decided to accept help after he received a $526 gas bill. The utility’s parent company, Sempra, is lining up lucrative natural gas contracts in Europe, and paying its executives obscene amounts of money while SoCalGas sticks it to customers, Rogers said. “They have failed miserably, which …

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When is relief coming for soaring California gas bills? What we know
1 year, 10 months ago

When is relief coming for soaring California gas bills? What we know

LA Times  

A Southern California Gas Co. truck in Cypress on Jan. 6. Although Southern California Gas Co. customers will be paying 68% less for natural gas this month than in January, prices are still well above their levels from last year. Relief may be on the way sooner than expected: The California Public Utilities Commission will meet Thursday to consider whether …

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Autonomous vehicles from Waymo and Cruise are causing all kinds of trouble in San Francisco.
2 years ago

Autonomous vehicles from Waymo and Cruise are causing all kinds of trouble in San Francisco.

Slate  

When transit systems experience delays, the reason usually isn’t very interesting: congested streets, medical emergencies, mechanical problems. “It’s an open question whether or not disengagement data gives you anything useful,” said Billy Riggs, a professor at the University of San Francisco’s School of Management who has followed the state’s AV deployments closely. That’s a conversation state officials should be having …

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Is California doing enough on climate? We asked the new CPUC chief
2 years, 9 months ago

Is California doing enough on climate? We asked the new CPUC chief

LA Times  

This is the March 17, 2022, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. I know you can’t say a lot about rooftop solar incentives, since the net metering incentive program is the subject of an active commission proceeding. ME: One area where California has lagged behind other states …

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Waymo gets approval to operate autonomous vehicle services for 24 hours and start paid trips
2 years, 9 months ago

Waymo gets approval to operate autonomous vehicle services for 24 hours and start paid trips

India Today  

Alphabet’s Waymo and Cruise have received permission to begin autonomous vehicle services for passengers. The California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates the use of AVs in providing passenger service throughout California, has given a nod to these self-driving units, so that they can operate full day in some parts of San Francisco and San Mateo. It further says that Cruise …

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California Issues Permits to Cruise, Waymo to Commence Autonomous Car Services
2 years, 9 months ago

California Issues Permits to Cruise, Waymo to Commence Autonomous Car Services

News 18  

The California Public Utilities Commission on Monday issued permits to self-driving units of General Motors and Alphabet Inc to allow for passenger service in autonomous vehicles with safety drivers present. CPUC said the GM unit Cruise and Alphabet’s Waymo are under Drivered Deployment permits authorized to collect fares from passengers and may offer shared rides. Starting Monday, Cruise is allowed …

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California proposes reducing incentives for rooftop solar
3 years ago

California proposes reducing incentives for rooftop solar

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California regulators proposed major changes to the state’s booming residential solar industry Monday, including reducing the discounts homeowners with rooftop solar and storage systems get on their electric bills when they sell extra energy back to the power companies. The state’s three major utilities — Pacific Gas & Electric, San Diego Gas & Electric, and Southern California …

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