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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 19, 2017
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Energy News for May 19, 2017

The Houston Chronicle: Trump’s Saudi Arabia visit will tout ties to Houston energy companies The Straits Times: China extracts gas from ‘flammable ice’ mined from South China Sea Reuters: OPEC panel to conclude meeting Friday -sources Bloomberg News: Cheap Gas Drilling Rouses Canada’s Permian of the North The El Paso Times: Texas Gas wants to raise El Paso rates again […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 18, 2017
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Transportation News for May 18, 2017

San Francisco Chronicle: Readers blast their horns about Uber and Lyft Mercury News: Roadshow: Defending Tom Hanks and ‘The 101’ Mercury News: BART: Emergency lighting failed at 14 of 46 stations; fix in the works San Francisco Examiner: BART’s broken elevators mean broken promises for disabled San Francisco Examiner: SF Port seeks new bidder to save Pier 70 shipyard as […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 18, 2017
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California Water News for May 18, 2017

Chico Enterprise-Record: New webcam shows damaged main Oroville Dam spillway at work Sacramento Bee: Oroville Dam spillway shutting down for summer repairs Sacramento Bee: You could fill Shasta Lake 7 times with farm groundwater lost during state drought Catholic Online: Large 14 Foot Crack in Headworks? Cracking Radial Gate Steel tendons? Threat to Spillway yet no Repairs in 2017? […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 18, 2017
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Energy News for May 18, 2017

The Wall Street Journal: Exxon Mobil to Enter Mexican Gas-Station Market CNBC: OPEC wild cards: Libya, Nigeria oil output stokes concern, but geopolitical risks still simmer The Guardian: Australian oil well leaked into ocean for months – but spill kept secret The Times-Tribune: Penn Natural Gas rates jumping 10 percent The San Diego Union-Tribune: Meetings next week on Pomerado Road […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 17, 2017
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Transportation News for May 17, 2017

San Francisco Chronicle: On jammed SF streets, ride hailing collides with urban well-being San Francisco Chronicle: San Francisco could ban sidewalk delivery robots Mercury News: Roadshow: Longer carpool hours may be coming to 237-880 San Francisco Examiner: Muni to pull $26 million from pedestrian safety projects for bus yard improvements Wall Street Journal: Car Makers, Despite Promises to Donald Trump, […]

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  • onMay 17, 2017
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Energy News for May 17, 2017

The Wall Street Journal: Oil Prices Hold Gains on Prospects for OPEC Deal Reuters: Iran likely to back longer OPEC-led oil cut if all on board: sources Utility Dive: Portland General Electric nixes plan for new gas capacity Axios: China building biggest infrastructure project in history Reuters: San Jose approves clean energy programMiners increase green energy use to power their […]

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  • onMay 17, 2017
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California Water News for May 17, 2017

Sacramento Bee: Trout, salmon and steelhead: A massive die-off coming for these California fish. San Francisco Chronicle: Report: Nearly half of California salmon species on track for extinction Record Bee: Releases to the Feather River being reduced Auburn Journal: Melting Sierra snowpack spurs river warning Press-Enterprise: Forecast calls for more tropical storms — but it’s unlikley any will reach California […]

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Pacific Maritime Magazine Online for May 16, 2017

    SUBSCRIBE TO THE PRINT EDITION           INSIDE PACIFIC MARITIME MAGAZINE       Inter-Service Cooperation    By Chris Philips, Managing Editor     Earlier this year, when President Trump announced the addition of $54 billion in added Defense Department spending for the Navy, Air Force, Army and Marine Corps, the […]

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