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Creating a Green Workforce – Comstock’s Magazine
RCRC's Senior Policy Advocate Staci Heaton featured in Comstock’s Magazine highlighting the need for increased forest management projects and emphasizing the dual benefits that work will provide by creating jobs and reducing catastrophic wildfire risk.
Legislators, Newsom negotiating behind closed doors over energy deal – Cal Matters
California Legislators are currently negotiating an energy package in the budget that would give the state Energy Commission sole control over the siting of clean-energy facilities. RCRC’s concerns regarding the potential loss of local control over energy projects are noted in this CalMatters article.
California's Lake Oroville peaks for the year at just over half full – Los Angeles Times
Lake Oroville in Butte County, the largest reservoir in a state system that provides water to 27 million Californians, has already reached its peak level for the year, barely surpassing half of its capacity, according to the Department of Water Resources. The Department of Water Resources’ forecasts Lake Oroville’s water level to continue falling through the end of the year, but the agency said it does not expect the hydroelectric power plant will need to shut down.