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USDA home repair grants available after California floods – The Sacramento Bee
Homeowners in rural California areas can now receive additional federal grant money to make important repairs to homes that were damaged from the California storms. The grant limits from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development were originally $10,000, but have now increased to $36,250 for California residents whose homes were flooded or damaged by landslides or mudslides.
California unveils 2050 goals for eliminating key pesticides – AgriPulse
The Newsom administration has released a policy framework for eliminating or significantly reducing the use of controversial pesticides by 2050 in California.
California offers health insurance for $10 a month. The deadline is days away – The Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Vice Mayor Eric Guerra and Covered California leader Jessica Altman made a last-chance appeal Wednesday to roughly 200,000 uninsured residents in the Sacramento region to sign up for health insurance before open enrollment ends Tuesday.