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As seen in: KQED-FM (San Francisco, CA), Public Health Watch, Wondery, Medium, MSN, The New York Times, Bloomberg News, The Guardian, Clarín (Argentina), NPR, WIRED Magazine, MDPI, KQED-TV (San Francisco,CA) and
Covers:  water policy, air quality, water quality, chemical policy, goods movement, ocean science, refineries, climate change, renewable energy, utilities, toxics
Doesn't Cover: eco-friendly products
Staff Writer, @PubHealthWatch. Former California Newsroom. @KQED Science. Former @NPR, @CAReportingProj, @ISeeChange, @SCPR. mpeterson at publichealthwatch.org

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A mass killing of sea urchins to revive a kelp forest [video]

A mass killing of sea urchins to revive a kelp forest [video]

A team of scientists, volunteers and fishermen is working to restore kelp forest in a patch of ocean off the …

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State PUC waives power shut offs if temperatures reach 90 degrees

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By Molly Peterson Verified
| Dispatches from Kolkata
Californians who haven’t paid their utility bills will be protected from power shut offs if temperatures reach 90-degrees or above.TheCalifornia Public Utilities Commission voted to approve the new standard late last week. The new standard drops the shut off threshold by 10 degrees. Before the CPUC’s vote, utilities could shut off power for delinquent customers even if it was 100 degrees outside.
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Wildfire Reporting - Expert Advice on Emerging Issues, Recurring Risks

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By Molly Peterson Verified, Caleigh Wells Verified
| Global Investigative Journalism Network Verified
The deadly fires that torched Los Angeles in January stopped burning long ago. But reporting on their aftermath continues, even as journalists prepare for the next blazes. Journalists from around the Western US gathered online earlier this year for a Society of Environmental Journalists’ webinar on wildfire and the new extremes, where they swapped insights about field reporting and discussed how coverage is changing.
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‘Secret Deal’ in California Would Weaken Regulations for Oil Refineries

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By Jim Morris Verified, Molly Peterson Verified
| Inside Climate News Verified
This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization. Find out more at publichealthwatch.org. On August 6, 2012, a corroded, eight-inch pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, cracked open, sending a white cloud hundreds of feet into the air. The cloud quickly engulfed the 19 refinery firefighters, managers and other workers who had been trying to fix what had been a small leak in the pipe.
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