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In the news today (day 5 of National Ground Water Awareness Week):

• Federal bill to stop EPA climate regs gets through House Energy & Commerce subcommittee;
• US Chamber of Commerce says stalled renewable energy projects are costing us;
• State budget vote expected by early next week;
• And much more.

Top of the Ticket

Reuters 3/10/11
House Panel Passes Bill To Stop EPA Climate Regulations
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/10/house-gop-epa-climate-bill_n_834256.html

KQED Climate Watch 3/10/11
Report: "Stalled" Energy Projects Costing Us
http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2011/03/10/report-stalled-energy-projects-costing-us/

Sacramento Bee Capitol Alert 3/10/11
Steinberg expects budget vote by early next week
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/03/steinberg-expects-budget-vote.html

Los Angeles Times/PolitiCal 3/10/11
Legislators told to be available in case weekend budget deal is reached
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2011/03/legislators-told-to-be-available-in-case-weekend-budget-deal-is-reached.html

California Environmental News

Huffington Post 3/10/11
Solar power breakthrough claimed by Stanford Researchers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/10/solar-power-breakthrough_n_833483.html

Los Angeles Times 3/10/11
Texas isn't stealing California jobs, workers or wealth, UCLA study finds
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-california-texas-20110310,0,2752558.story

San Jose Mercury News 3/10/11
New $15 million effort launched to preserve land around Silicon Valley
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_17577780

Sacramento Bee, KQED 3/10/11
CPUC says PG&E should allow smart meter opt-out
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/03/10/3465405/cpuc-says-pge-should-allow-smart.html
http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2011/03/10/cpuc-will-ask-pge-to-set-up-smartmeter-opt-out/

NRDC 3/10/11
LA County Ordered to Clean Up Water Pollution
http://www.nrdc.org/media/2011/110310d.asp

Time.com Video 3/10/11
Tackling Traffic in Los Angeles
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,819979473001_2058033,00.html

San Francisco Chronicle 3/10/11
Niles Canyon Road widening project battle brews
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/10/BA6Q1I7JSF.DTL

KQED Quest 3/10/11
Raise Your Glass to Groundwater
http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2011/03/10/raise-your-glass-to-groundwater/

National & International Environmental News

KQED, ClimateProgress 3/10/11
JPL bombshell: Polar ice sheet mass loss is speeding up, on pace for 1 foot sea level rise by 2050
http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2011/03/09/melting-ice-sheets-spur-sea-level-rise/
http://climateprogress.org/2011/03/10/jpl-greenland-antarctica-ice-sheet-mass-loss-accelerating-sea-level-rise-1-foot-by-2050/

The Hill (E2 Wire blog) 3/10/11
EPA’s Jackson lays out five ‘fictions’ about the agency's agenda
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/148771-epas-jackson-lays-out-five-fictions-about-the-agency

New York Times/Greenwire 3/10/11
Light Bulb Law Stokes Fury in Senate Hearing
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/03/10/10greenwire-light-bulb-law-stokes-fury-in-senate-hearing-90938.html

Grist 3/10/11
Fred Upton pursues EPA down the rabbit hole
http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-10-fred-upton-pursues-epa-down-the-rabbit-hole

Grist 3/10/11
Solar: It’s not just a California thing anymore
http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-10-solar-its-not-just-a-california-thing

The Hill (E2 Wire blog) 3/10/11
House Dems float bill to tap U.S. oil reserves
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/148727-house-dems-float-bill-to-tap-us-oil-reserves

New York Times 3/10/11
Study Says Navy Must Adapt to Climate Change
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/study-says-navy-must-adapt-to-climate-change/

Sacramento Bee 3/10/11
New planning process starts for national forests
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/03/10/3463936/new-planning-process-starts-for.html

NPR (All Things Considered) 3/10/11
Gyms Allow Exercisers To Contribute To Power Grid (with audio)
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/10/134432805/Gyms-Allow-Exercisers-To-Contribute-To-Power-Grid

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