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Water reporter @CALmatters. Lapsed immunologist. B*sky: https://t.co/V5JLJkqhEv Terrible food opinions mine, RTs & likes≠endorsements. (She/her)
California, USA
Joined September 2014
A new study found the Trump administration’s cuts to NIH grants disrupted more than 380 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants. The cuts disproportionately impacted trials on infectious diseases and minority communities.
washingtonpost.com
Grants for 383 clinical trials were terminated and the funding disruptions affected more than 74,000 trial participants, according to new research.
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Western states in the Colorado River basin are racing a federal deadline to hash out how to share the overtapped river. Two questions looms large: Just how real is this deadline, and what does it mean for California? https://t.co/UWB5lRUFQi 📝 @RA_Becks 📸 Caitlin Ochs, Reuters
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After two years of negotiations amid dire projections for the Colorado River’s reservoirs, California and six other states that rely on the river’s water have yet again failed to reach a deal — despite a federal deadline. https://t.co/WguXQRxrkC 📝 @RA_Becks 📸 Gregory Bull, AP
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Pitch to my editor for this story: but what even are deadlines, REALLY. https://t.co/lqd5i87TM8
calmatters.org
Western states in the Colorado River basin are racing a federal deadline to hash out how to share the overtapped river. As the clock ticks down, two questions looms large: Just how real is this...
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Compared to the 'bedbugs' of the Delta, golden mussels encrust boats and piers and threaten water supplies for cities and farms. But one year since their discovery, there's no help for the Delta on the way. https://t.co/A5LzoaBKlT
calmatters.org
One year after the discovery that golden mussels had invaded the Delta, thick colonies coat boats and piers and threaten water supplies for cities and farms. Yet the state has no specific funding or...
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Outside an immigration courtroom in SF, ICE agents lay in wait. The people they will detain sit inside court, stunned at what's about to happen, afraid that they'll be lost in detention and deported. The Attorneys of the Day are their last hope. My latest for the @sfstandard.
Just before the judge arrives at immigration court, attorney Diana Mariscal prepares the dozen migrants for their hearings. She explains in Spanish that there’s a chance ICE will detain them today. What comes next surprises them all. 📝: @JesseAlejandro
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In a blow to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitions to replumb the Delta, California lawmakers once again punted on his plan to fast-track a deeply controversial $20 billion tunnel project that would funnel more water to the south. https://t.co/GrDRMNXMYN 📝 @ra_becks
calmatters.org
A controversial $20 billion construction project that would funnel water from Lake Shasta towards thirsty cities and farms keeps moving forward. Slowly.
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The state’s farmers are divided over a bill that would loosen rules protecting agricultural land. The goal of a bill proposed by Assembly Democrat Buffy Wicks is to seed solar farms on fallowed fields. https://t.co/8sCUuaHfGe 📝 @RA_Becks
calmatters.org
Farmers are divided over a bill that would loosen rules protecting farmland in an effort to seed more solar on fallowed fields.
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As dozens of wildfires burn across California after a remarkable outbreak of dry lightning, a timely new study warns that a warming planet could bring more lightning-sparked wildfires to the West in the coming decades. https://t.co/yUSC0XYQoa
calmatters.org
When lightning strikes are abundant, so are wildfires – some in remote places. Scientists warn there may be more in the future, in California and across the West.
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Come for the mussel-sniffing dogs, stay for the major threat that invasive golden mussels pose to water supplies and lakes across the state. #cawater
https://t.co/z4HSmKpMWx
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Dogs and human inspectors are checking boats for golden mussels at some lakes, but a patchwork of oversight leaves many lakes unprotected.
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California lawmakers today approved one of the most substantial rollbacks of the state’s signature environmental review law in decades, including one controversial exemption... https://t.co/PFbUON1n0g 📝 @alejandrolazo & @RA_Becks 📸 Justin Sullivan
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The Trump administration’s plan to repeal a rule prohibiting logging and road construction in undeveloped parts of national forests would strip protection from more than 4 million acres within California’s borders. https://t.co/aDzQtzPSed 📝 @RA_Becks
calmatters.org
The land at stake ranges from the far north's dense coastal forests to Southern California’s great expanses of brush. Experts dispute whether revoking the two-decade-old rule would help prevent...
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Can hype make you blind in crypto? BitBoy’s story shows what happens when trust turns toxic. Read the cautionary tale!
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To escape the Tsunami Zone: • Go east. Stay east of 7th St. • If you become trapped, call 9-1-1. Monitor for evacuation updates on these resources: • https://t.co/lGlekjClCV • AC Alert: Phone, email, and https://t.co/26dKN26nOg • See Berkeley's Emergency Map for updates.
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This is the Alameda County Office of Emergency Services page. Home for #preparedness information and #emergency notifications. Associated with AC Alert.
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LEAVE NOW. DO NOT WAIT • DO NOT stay on boats, docks • Bring all people, pets w/you • Bring only essentials and medications • Lock doors when you leave • TAKE ONE VEHICLE. This will help keep roadways open for responders • BE READY TO WALK OUT in case roadways are blocked
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I’ll be on leave for an exciting new project for the next six months, and @allybland will be covering the water beat. See you all in April!
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Californians — particularly low-income immigrants from Asian countries and other people of color — rely on the San Francisco Bay and the rivers that feed it for food. But the vast watershed is in trouble... https://t.co/v3522zg2N2 📝 @RA_Becks
calmatters.org
Tribes and immigrants rely on the San Francisco Bay and Delta rivers. California faces a federal discrimination probe for failing to protect them.
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Today’s @CalMatters newsletter by @lynnlaaa — @akoseff on @ilike_mike gas price session — Kristen Hwang on #Prop35 — @MarisaKendall on LA Measure A — @JeanneKuang on #CalOSHA heat fine — @RA_Becks on Delta fishers https://t.co/HSgqwWwY1u
calmatters.org
Senate leader Mike McGuire reluctantly convenes Gov. Newsom’s special session on gas prices, but spikes an Assembly bill.
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@Cal_OES reminds everyone that summer-like heat and elevated fire risk are in the forecast. @NWSSacramento stopped by to share what Californians can expect to start the new week. #CAwx #hotwx
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