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Climate change is decreasing coastal fog, and that could be leading to increased fire risk. UC Berkeley Plant Biologist Todd Dawson says coastal fog in California has declined by 33% over the past century. is partially the result of the warming climate, and that creates more terrestrial conditions that are prone to megafires. Fog moistens grasses and trees […]

A huge setback for clean air in Malibu. State officials yesterday approved extending the permits for a pair of methane-fueled electric plants 25 miles upwind of Malibu. The Mandalay electrical generating station … in Oxnard … as well as plants in Huntington Beach and Long Beach will have another three years before they must close […]

We are getting more information from Sacramento this morning … details on the anticoagulant pesticide ban that made it thru the California Legislature at the very last possible moment. Assembly Bill 1788 would pretty much ban “second generation anticoagulant rodenticides” in California … until state pesticide regulators develop plans to ensure they’re not harmful to […]

It’s been four months since downtown Santa Monica was substantially destroyed by looting … during peaceful protests that distracted police. The Santa Monica Police Department has yet to produce a report on what happened. Large groups of criminals flooded Santa Monica on May 31st … following a peaceful protest for racial justice. Santa Monica police […]

From F-M 99.1 … KBUU News … these are the Wednesday Headlines: = Highs on Sunday in the Malibu mountains … 115 … and it will be windy. = Huge beach crowds likely … no plans to restrict the beaches like Santa Barbara. = Four months after the looting … Santa Monica police have yet […]

There is absolute chaos at the State agency that Malibu and the rest of California relies on for gas and electric safety. The California Public Utilities Commission yesterday fired its executive director. Alice Stebbins had brought in a bunch of incompetent people from her former job at the California air resources Board … and she […]

A statewide bill banning the use of rat poison appears to have passed … just before midnight. The vote in the state Assembly was 53-17 and 9 abstentions. Assembly Bill 1788 passed The bill passed out of the Senate by a 23-7 vote in the Senate … with 10 not voting. Of course … the […]

Santa Monica-Malibu school officials are warning parents that they cannot simply pull their kids out of school and declare that they are homeschooling. Superintendent Ben Drati sent a letter out yesterday … noting that the Coronavirus pandemic has caused more parents to homeschool their children. Drati says that a “Private School Setting” … which is […]

= Santa Barbara restricting use of its beaches over Labor Day. = But with temperatures expected to hit 115 in L-A … no Labor Day crowd controls here. = A statewide ban on nasty rat poison … appears to have passed in Sacramento. = Malibu parents are warned … you just can’t pull your kids […]

Malibu’s ban on pesticides has run into a delay at the California Coastal Commission. The ordinance is aimed at preventing the poisoning of local wildlife … who die gruesome deaths when anticoagulant poison intended for rats works it was up the food chain into large birds and mammals. The Coastal Commission has to approve the […]