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• Canned dog food recalled from Kent company

  08-09-2016 23:57
  
  Addiction Foods says it is recalling 355 cases its canned dog foods after testing showed elevated levels of Vitamin A and a slight variance in calcium / phosphorous ratios.
  
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• State attorney general won’t charge 3 Pasco cops in death of rock-throwing man

  08-09-2016 23:55
  
  The death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes was captured on video that went viral and sparked weeks of peaceful protests in Pasco.
  
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• 2 cases of Legionnaires’ disease at UW medical center under investigation

  08-09-2016 23:26
  
  Health officials are investigating two cases of Legionnaires’ disease, a potentially serious type of pneumonia, in patients treated at University of Washington Medical Center cardiac units, officials said Thursday.
  
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• "It's Crazy"—Pacific Northwest College of Art Suspends a Master's Program, Leaves Teachers and Students Stranded

  08-09-2016 23:21 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesWhat's going on in there? Photo courtesy of Another Believer
  I've been meaning to post this for a few days and keep waiting until I have time to follow with some reporting of my own. But I haven't had time and I think you should know about this news about Portland's Pacific Northwest College of Art, which sounds suspiciously like it's experiencing some of the same issues happening at Cornish College of the Arts here in Seattle, which recently appointed as its interim president Chris
  
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• Savage Love: Milk Money

  08-09-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage JOE NEWTON
  My husband left the picture recently, and I'm now a single mom supporting an infant in Toronto. I work a retail job and am drowning financially. I hooked up with a guy I met on Tinder, and I didn't warn him that I'm still nursing because I didn't even think of it. Luckily, he really got off on it—so I was spared the awkwardness of "Eww, what is coming out of your tits?!" Afterward, he joked about there being a market for lactating women in the kink world. My questi
  
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• The practice of using 9/11 to market consumer goods backfires yet again

  08-09-2016 23:14
  
  As the 15th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, many Americans are preparing themselves for a day of reflection. For some, it will involve mourning. For others, it will be an opportunity to look forward. But for some folks who work in marketing, it'll be another chance to do a little #branding.
  
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• Mr. Robot Recap: Episode 10 Blends Friend and Foe in the Deep Twilight

  08-09-2016 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThe end of season two is coming fast—maybe too fast. USA Network
  If you missed “eps2.8_h1dden-pr0cess.axx” (the tenth episode of the second season of Mr. Robot), and feel strongly about not having a few of its surprises spoiled, then do not read this brief but very positive post.The star of this episode is Dominique "Dom" DiPierro (Grace Gummer), the FBI agent who is piecing together the puzzle of 5/9, the hacking event that brought down the too big to fail and
  
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• 2 rescued after car plunges off cliff in Point Defiance Park

  08-09-2016 22:59
  
  The victims were trapped in their car after it plunged about 150 feet down the cliff.
  
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• Tribe challenging pipeline has some advantages in courtroom

  08-09-2016 22:49
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The American Indians challenging an oil pipeline that would cross four states have some legal advantages in a courtroom, particularly their tribe’s status as a sovereign nation with long ties to the land in question. But stopping a major project like the Dakota Access pipeline after construction has begun is difficult, […]
  
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• The 27 Best Movies To Watch in Seattle This Weekend

  08-09-2016 22:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffIt's not too late to see the gorgeously animated adventure (and tear-jerker) Finding Dory.
  This week, Sean Nelson wrote, "Seeing a film in a darkened theater with strangers is a secular sacrament. The fact that you can't pause, talk, text, or tweet until it's over is a measure of its value. Please enjoy it while it's still available." The quote is in reference to Cinerama's ambitious and exciting 70 mm Film Festival, but it's true for any of the picks on this list&m
  
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• Jury weighs claims against mom who lost son in police shootout

  08-09-2016 22:26
  
  Nearly two years ago, Jeanne Tinker-Smith lost her son in a shootout with police. Now, a federal jury will decide what more Tinker-Smith will lose because her son used her shotgun when he fired on Whatcom County deputies.
  
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• State Representative Admits Task Force on Fatal Police Shootings Has Been "Putting Off" Discussion of Controversial Law

  08-09-2016 22:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel Herz"When are we going to address the very issue for why we are here?" asked task force member Fé Lopez during the last meeting. TVW
  On Tuesday, the state task force on the use of deadly force by police will finally begin examining the controversial Washington law that makes it virtually impossibleto prosecute police who unjustly kill.
  "We've been putting off this highly contentious issue," admitted Rep. Roger Goodman (D-Kirkland), who co-chairs the task force, in an interview to
  
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• Lawmaker Admits Task Force on Fatal Police Shootings Has Been "Putting Off" Discussion of Controversial Law

  08-09-2016 22:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel Herz"When are we going to address the very issue for why we are here?" asked task force member Fé Lopez during the last meeting. TVW
  On Tuesday, the state task force on the use of deadly force by police will finally begin examining the controversial Washington law that makes it virtually impossibleto prosecute police who unjustly kill.
  "We've been putting off this highly contentious issue," admitted Rep. Roger Goodman (D-Kirkland), who co-chairs the task force, in an interview to
  
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• North Dakota Governor Calls in the National Guard Ahead of Tomorrow's Expected Ruling on Pipeline

  08-09-2016 21:48 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneThe chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has issued a statement calling for a peaceful response to the expected federal court decision on the Dakota Access pipeline. Many of those at the nonviolent spirit camp in North Dakota are families with children. SB
  North Dakota governor Jack Dalrymple announced at a press conference this morning that he will be calling in the National Guard ahead of a federal judge's decision on whether to halt construction of the Dakota Access p
  
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• North Dakota Governor Calls in the National Guard Ahead of Tomorrow's Expected Ruling on Oil Pipeline

  08-09-2016 21:48 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneThe chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has issued a statement calling for a peaceful response to tomorrow's expected federal court decision on the Dakota Access pipeline. Many of those demonstrating at the nonviolent spirit camp in North Dakota are families with children. SB
  North Dakota governor Jack Dalrymple announced at a press conference this morning that he will be calling in the North Dakota National Guard ahead of a federal judge's decision on whether to halt c
  
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• Everett's War on Poor Alcoholics Escalates

  08-09-2016 21:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede CHARLES MUDEDE
  In an effort to clean its gritty image and to make life for the very poor as miserable as possible, the city of Everett is bent on banning "20 malt liquor brands or fortified beer products." This ban will be activated a few days before Halloween and impact 100 or so honest-to-god businesses. The bad thinking in all of this is that booze and not poverty is the problem. So, to end the "blight of public intoxication," don't cut the poverty (too expensive), cut the s
  
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• Report: Seattle needs to act 'boldly' on homelessness now

  08-09-2016 21:29
  
  Consultant Barb Poppe on Thursday released her final recommendations on how Seattle should invest in solving homelessness in a report titled "The Path Forward -- Act now, Act Strategically, and Act Decisively." The report will be presented to the city council's Human Services and Public Health Committee at 2 p.m. today.
  
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• Report: Seattle homeless strategy needs big makeover

  08-09-2016 21:29
  
  Consultant Barb Poppe on Thursday released her final recommendations on how Seattle should invest in solving homelessness in a report titled "The Path Forward -- Act now, Act Strategically, and Act Decisively." The report will be presented to the city council's Human Services and Public Health Committee at 2 p.m. today.
  
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• Jill Stein Failed to Show Up in the Ways That Mattered Most at the #NoDAPL Demonstration

  08-09-2016 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneJill Stein and Ajamu Baraka at the pipeline demonstration on Tuesday. SB
  Thousands of Native Americans from tribes all over the country have been camping in the path of the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline for weeks or months, but yesterday the big news was about Jill Stein.Stein and her Green Party running mate, Ajamu Baraka, showed up at a Tuesday morning demonstration in which two activists locked themselves to bulldozers. The Stein campaign did no organizing around the act
  
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• Barack Obama is officially now a parasite (it’s an honor)

  08-09-2016 20:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s no Nobel Peace Prize, but Barack Obama has a new honor to brag about. Scientists have named a parasite after him — and there’s no worming out of it. Meet Baracktrema obamai, a tiny parasitic flatworm that lives in turtles’ blood. A new study officially names the two-inch-long, hair-thin creature after […]
  
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• "Come On, Man!" Gary Johnson, Gun Nut, On Guns (He's Nuts)

  08-09-2016 20:49 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageI don't view Gary Johnson's Aleppo gaffe as disqualifying all by itself. Remember when Obama said he'd visited 57 states during the 2012 campaign? Campaigning for president is physically and mentally exhausting—arguably more exhausting than actually presidenting—and candidates are allowed one and two brain farts/blanks at this stage.
  What disqualifies Johnson is his dangerous/glibertarian/NRA-fellating position on guns—and his gun-nutty, obfuscating rage when press
  
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• At Commander-In-Chief Forum Hillary Clinton Slays; Trump Brays

  08-09-2016 20:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithThe Today Show anchor only looks slightly more intimidating with his glasses on.Miro Vrlik Photography / Shutterstock.com
  Word from the failing New York Times is that moderator Matt Lauer lost NBC's "Commander-In-Chief Forum," which was held last night in front of a plane with a lizard painted on it. The forum was designed to give voters an idea of how Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would fare as the head of the most powerful military in the world, but mostly everybody's talking a
  
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• Seahawks Players May Protest the National Anthem

  08-09-2016 20:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia Knauf LARRY MAURER/SEATTLE SEAHAWKS
  Ahead of the Seahawks face-off against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, members of the team recently told The Seattle Times that football fans may be in for a surprise.Receiver Doug Baldwin said he is considering joining teammate Jeremy Lane, cornerback, who sat in protest of the national anthem ahead of a game in Oakland, Calif. last week. Lane told the media he was sitting in solidarity with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who ear
  
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• Las Vegas middle school closed after mercury was found on campus

  08-09-2016 20:08
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Classes are cancelled at a Las Vegas middle school after the student body was quarantined for up to 17 hours over possible mercury exposure. The Clark County School District said all students and staff at Walter Johnson Junior High School in western Vegas were ordered to stay on campus to be […]
  
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• 1,200 students kept at school overnight after mercury found

  08-09-2016 20:08
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hundreds of anxious parents staked out a Las Vegas middle school after mercury was found and federal officials kept more than a thousand students for up to 17 hours to screen them for exposure to the neurotoxin. Authorities were investigating how mercury got into Walter Johnson Junior High School on Wednesday, […]
  
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• Judge: Seattle cops weren’t required to monitor informant who committed crimes

  08-09-2016 19:51
  
  The man says he was kidnapped, robbed and assaulted by the police informant, Jessahel Ortega-Baldis, in 2012.
  
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• As Seattle's Population Grows, Its Greenhouse Emissions Fall

  08-09-2016 19:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThe biggest source of Seattle’s greenhouse emissions, cars, love to say Fuck You to pedestrians. CHARLES MUDEDE
  The Seattle Times reports that between 2008 and 2014, our city's population grew by 13 percent, and yet its greenhouse emissions dropped by 6 percent. The post gives three reasons for this decline: greater energy efficiency in buildings, increased density, and warmer winters. My guess is that the second reason (more people living in a small area) is the most impo
  
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• A School for Native Children Rises Amid the Dakota Access Pipeline Demonstrations

  08-09-2016 19:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneThat tipi behind the row of flags is now a school where 30 to 40 children study Lakota language and culture. SB
  It's hard to catch a moment with Alayna Eagle Shield.That's because Eagle Shield, a 26-year-old native of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, has been doing something that usually takes years, thousands of dollars, and a paid department of experts. In two weeks, and with little to no resources, she's started a school.The logistics surrounding the school are also mo
  
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• ‘She was really scared,’ family says of Montana woman who called them after kidnapping

  08-09-2016 19:24
  
  The Great Falls woman’s family told law enforcement that she said she’d been hit on the head and put in the trunk of her car at a rest stop north of Helena. Her body was found 325 miles away in Spokane.
  
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• ‘My mom had no enemies,’ says daughter of Montana woman who called family after kidnapping

  08-09-2016 19:24
  
  The Great Falls woman’s family told law enforcement that she been hit on the head and put in the trunk of her car at a rest stop. Her body was found 325 miles away in Spokane.
  
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• Aaaaaand What Is Aleppo?

  08-09-2016 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jennifer Campbell.@mikebarnicle: What would you do, if you were elected, about Aleppo? @GovGaryJohnson: And what is Aleppo?https://t.co/ZbqO5RAEsk
  — Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) September 8, 2016
  Okay, got it. Got it. You're talking about the peppers. Right. Right. Of course. I love spicy food! So tasty...[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Reports: Seattle Must Change the Way It Spends Millions of Dollars a Year on Homelessness

  08-09-2016 19:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverAlternative headline: Mayor Ed Murray Spends $100,000 on Hashtags Ansel Herz
  Armed with two pricey consultants' reports, Mayor Ed Murray's administration is promising changes to the way Seattle spends millions of dollars a year combatting homelessness. Consultants hired by the city and county say local governments should focus more on long-term housing efforts that can prove they effectively move people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing. While the consultants' repo
  
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• Mayor Ed Murray Promises to Refocus City Homelessness Spending on Long-Term Housing

  08-09-2016 19:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverAs debates continue over how the city handles homeless encampments, Mayor Ed Murray is promising to revamp the city's longterm plans for housing people who are unsheltered. Ansel Herz
  Armed with two pricey consultants' reports, Mayor Ed Murray is announcing a new long-term plan on homelessness today. The plan will attempt to shift the city's focus from short-term efforts like addressing tent encampments to long-term housing efforts for moving people experiencing homelessness into
  
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• Seattle needs to revamp homeless programs, new reports say

  08-09-2016 19:00
  
  Seattle needs to revamp how it combats homelessness, two new reports say, and Mayor Ed Murray says he has a plan to do just that.
  
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• Student accused of posting threats to ‘shoot up’ Inglemoor High School

  08-09-2016 18:59
  
  Police said some of the threats referenced “certain staff at the school” as well as students.
  
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• Seahawks game-day Sounder trains start Sunday

  08-09-2016 18:43
  
  Sound Transit will once again begin its special service for Seahawks games, starting this Sunday for the 1:05 p.m. game against the Miami Dolphins.
  
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• 50 Great NW Indie Rock Albums That Weren't On Pitchfork's List of the 50 Best NW Indie Rock Albums

  08-09-2016 18:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean Nelson and Dave SegalShe remains amazing.
  Earlier this week, Pitchfork published its list of The 50 Best Indie Rock Albums of the Pacific Northwest, the latest in their excellent series of well-argued, highly-debatable inventories. (I was honored to be asked to write the introductory essay to the list, though I didn't participate in the voting.)As one or two of you have pointed out, one or two albums seem to have escaped the attention of the listmakers. My colleague Dave Segal and I noti
  
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• Homeless man accused of hate crimes, harassment in University District

  08-09-2016 18:16
  
  A 44-year-old man targeted and harassed several Asian people in Seattle’s University District, prosecutors say.
  
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• How Sea-Tac biologist prevents birds from creating the next ‘Miracle on the Hudson’

  08-09-2016 18:10
  
  The wildlife biologist at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport helps prevent incidents like "The Miracle on the Hudson" by keeping birds from disrupting operations and endangering passengers.
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Needs to Spend Even More on Light Rail, Everett Puts Pressure on its Poorest Drunks

  08-09-2016 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeStressed SkyTrain in Vancouver B.C.. Charles MudedeLearning From Vancouver's Bus and Rail Woes: If you want to get a very good idea about how small the planned investment in Link ($54 Billion) actually is, and how it will not be enough to meet the growing demand for the future of transportation, which will certainly be public, all you have to do is turn to Vancouver B.C., a city that has a smaller population than ours but a metropolitan rail system with 43 miles of track (ours w
  
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• NASA’s 1st asteroid-sampler poised for evening liftoff

  08-09-2016 17:04
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s first asteroid-sampling spacecraft is poised for an evening liftoff. The spacecraft, Osiris-Rex, will be aiming for asteroid Bennu (BEHN’-oo). The probe will orbit the big black rock, vacuum up some gravel, then haul the sample back to Earth. The entire quest will take seven years. NASA has gone after […]
  
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• NASA spacecraft on way to asteroid to bring back samples

  08-09-2016 17:04
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first NASA explorer of its kind took off on a seven-year quest Thursday, chasing after a big, black, unexplored asteroid to gather a few handfuls of gravel for return to Earth. These bite-size bits of ancient space rock from asteroid Bennu could hold clues to the origin of life, […]
  
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• Alaska gets $3M to fight opioid addiction, overdoses

  08-09-2016 16:10
  
  Anchorage, Juneau and other areas have been identified as areas of greatest need for federal funds to battle heroin addiction and overdoses.
  
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• Cellphone taped to locker room wall leads to arrest

  08-09-2016 15:32
  
  Redmond police arrested a 25-year-old man early Wednesday morning after a Woodinville High School swim coach found a cell phone taped to the wall of a locker room at Hartman Pool.
  
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• How we got here: Key events of McCleary school-funding decision

  08-09-2016 15:31
  
  Washington's public-school funding issues go back decades. Take a look at the interactive timeline to see what led to the state Supreme Court's landmark McCleary decision.
  
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• The Underground Railroad Is Bigger and Better Than You've Heard

  08-09-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, the Most-Hyped Novel of 2016, Is Bigger and Better Than You've Heardby Rich SmithLast month, Oprah told everybody to read Colson Whitehead's latest novel, The Underground Railroad, which gave the New York Times best-selling MacArthur fellow a massive signal boost. President Barack Obama read it while on vacation and told Fareed Zakaria it was "terrific" and "powerful." Booksellers and famous writers are tweeting about it. This is the Big Book of the F
  
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• Handymen, home care helps seniors trying to age in place

  08-09-2016 09:26
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Where you live plays a big role in staying independent as you age. Now researchers say an innovative program that combined home fix-ups and visits from occupational therapists and nurses improved low-income seniors’ ability to care for themselves in their own homes. Still to be answered is whether that better daily functioning […]
  
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• Colorado town on verge big changes amid Superfund cleanup

  08-09-2016 09:13
  
  DENVER (AP) — A historic Colorado mountain town is on the threshold of a transformation after the federal government announced it will embark on an ambitious campaign to stanch the flow of acidic wastewater cascading from abandoned mines. The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday designated an area north of Silverton as a Superfund site, clearing […]
  
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• California to extend most ambitious US climate change law

  08-09-2016 08:31
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown is set to extend the nation’s most ambitious climate change law by another 10 years on Thursday as California charts a new goal to reduce carbon pollution. The Democratic governor chose an urban natural park on the edge of downtown Los Angeles as the setting to sign the […]
  
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• California extends most ambitious US climate change law

  08-09-2016 08:31
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown extended the nation’s most ambitious climate change law Thursday by another 10 years as California charts a new goal to reduce carbon pollution. The Democratic governor signed the legislation in a Los Angeles park amid opposition from the oil industry, business groups and Republicans. It expands on California’s […]
  
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