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Colorado and California bills take aim at battery recycling gaps – Resource Recycling
SB 501, authored by Senator Ben Allen and co-sponsored by NSAC, the Resource Recovery Coalition of California and the Rural County Representatives of California, passed the Senate 30-10 on May 27 and heads to an Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee hearing June 16.
In California’s ‘Lithium Valley,’ students are training for jobs that don’t yet exist – Los Angeles Times
When Imperial Valley College launched a program training students to become plant operators and technicians in the emerging lithium industry, Corban Dillon enrolled in the inaugural class, hoping for a career in a promising field.
In remote pockets of Northern California, residents worry landlines will be abandoned as AT&T escalates bid to drop service – Press Democrat
AT&T has redoubled efforts to end its obligation to provide basic phone service, and especially landlines, across large swaths of California.
California’s high-speed rail may bring ‘valley of data centers’ – San Francisco Chronicle
One day, bullet trains could zip from a palm-lined street in Anaheim to the foot of Salesforce Tower in SoMa. Along the way, they may pass through a new kind of California landscape: vast acres of warehouses, all humming with servers.