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Electric Car Program Targets Downtown, SW Fresno Customers

Electric Car Program Targets Downtown, SW Fresno Customers

If you want to be one of the first people in southwest or downtown Fresno to use a new electric car-sharing program, you can soon register w...

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Exxon Doubles Down on Fossil Fuels With $59.5 Billion Acquisition as Prices Surge

Exxon Mobil is buying Pioneer Natural Resources in an all-stock deal valued at $59.5 billion, its largest buyout since acquiring Mobil two d...

1 year ago

PUC Again Delays Decision on New Solar Charges for California Apartments, Schools

Californians will have to wait until at least Nov. 2 to learn whether the state’s utility regulators follow through with a policy chan...

1 year ago

The Future of Electric Vehicles Looms Over Negotiations in the US Autoworkers Strike

WAYNE, Mich. — On the picket lines at a Ford factory west of Detroit, many striking workers don’t think the electric vehicle revolutio...

1 year ago

As Rooftop Solar Debate Flares, Builders, Landlords and Renter Advocates Are Taking Sides

California isn’t short on lofty goals: Lawmakers have vowed to zero out the state’s carbon emissions by 2045, build 2.5 million new homes by...

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Environmentalists Suffer Another Loss in Fight to Shutter CA’s Last Nuclear Power Plant

LOS ANGELES — Federal regulators Wednesday rejected a request from two environmental groups to immediately shut down one of two reactors at ...

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A Fight Over Precious Groundwater in a Rural California Town Is Rooted in Carrots

NEW CUYAMA — In the hills of a dry, remote patch of California farm country, Lee Harrington carefully monitors the drips moistening his pist...

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ExxonMobil Loses Bid to Truck Millions of Gallons of Crude Oil Through Santa Barbara

SANTA BARBARA — ExxonMobil lost a court bid Wednesday to truck millions of gallons of crude oil through central California — a crucial part ...

1 year ago

Homebuilding Group Calls for More Guidance on Federal Water Rule Implementation

National Association o Homebuilders chair Alicia Huey has called on the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...

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Energy Department Announces $325M for Batteries That Can Store Clean Electricity Longer

The Energy Department has announced a $325 million investment in new battery types that can help turn solar and wind energy into 24-hour pow...

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Humanitarian Aid Is Stuck at Gaza-Egypt Border as Israeli Siege Strains Hospitals

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Suzanne Somers, of ‘Three’s Company,’ Dies a Day Before 77th Birthday

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Hunter Biden Investigations Lead to Ethical Concerns About President Biden, an AP-NORC Poll Shows

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Pharmacy Chain With Locations Across Fresno Files for Bankruptcy

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California’s Widening Housing Gap Defies State Efforts to Jump-Start Construction

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Israeli Shelling on Lebanon Border Kills Reuters Journalist, Wounds 6

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The Geography of Conflict: Understanding the Israeli Communities Along the Gaza Border

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What’s Out in the Universe? NASA’s Amber Straughn Will Tell Us in Town Hall Opener

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Valley Agricultural Innovators Honored with the CALF 2023 Profiles in Leadership Award

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Obama to Israelis in 2013: Put Yourselves in Palestinians’ Shoes

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Death Row Inmate Who Murdered Merced Police Officer Back in Court, Says His ‘Rights Violated’

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Republicans Pick Jim Jordan as Nominee for House Speaker, Putting Job Within the Trump Ally’s Reach

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