Kathleen Ronayne

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Colorado Rep. Brianna Titone before a signing ceremony for the state's 'right to repair' law, Denver, April 25, 2023.
Colorado the 1st State to Pass Farmers' 'Right to Repair'
April 26, 2023
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3M to Lay Off 6,000 Workers
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Airbus Helicopters Debuts First American-Made Military Versions of the H125
April 25, 2023
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People Are Getting Laid Off
April 25, 2023
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A mural is displayed on the wall outside the Lordstown Motors plant, June 22, 2021 in Lordstown, Ohio.
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Lordstown Warns It May Fail as Foxconn Gets Jumpy
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a worker measures the size of an equipment at Harbin Turbine Company Limited of Harbin Electric Corporation in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province on Friday, April 28, 2023.
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An employee works at a battery energy storage facility in Saginaw, Texas, April 25, 2023, that is owned and operated by Eolian L.P.
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April 28, 2023
Plastic bottles of shampoo are displayed at Compton's Market in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, June 17, 2022. California lawmakers approved a measure, on Thursday, June 30, 2022, requiring companies selling plastics used for single-use products like eating utensils, food containers and shampoo bottles to cut down their use of the polluting product by 25% if they want to continue selling in California starting the next decade.
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California Sets Nation's Toughest Plastics Reduction Rules
Companies have 10 years to make changes.
July 1, 2022
A tugboat pushes a barge down the Sacramento River past wind turbines near Rio Vista, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 23, 2013.
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Lease Terms for California Offshore Wind Projects Released
The two projects will generate enough energy to power about 1.5 million homes.
May 27, 2022
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Settlement Bans Coal Storage in California City by 2027
It comes from concerns about possible health complications from coal dust.
November 16, 2021
Light traffic and a mostly empty parking lot is seen along Pacific Coast Highway at the Santa Monica Pier, Monday, March 23, 2020, in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Calif. Scrambles for Protection Gear
The state is trying to acquire about 1 billion sets of gloves and hundreds of millions of gowns, surgical masks and face shields.
March 24, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg speaks during a campaign event at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery in Richmond, Va., Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020.
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Bloomberg Pledges to Sell Business
The company made him a multibillionaire.
February 19, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg speaks to supporters Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, in New York.
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Bloomberg Outlines Plans for Cleaner Buildings, Cars
His plan calls for all new cars to be electric by 2035 and new buildings to produce zero carbon emissions by 2025.
January 17, 2020
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, receives congratulations from Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, of Lakewood after her to give new wage and benefit protections at the so-called gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft was approved by the Assembly in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. The bill now goes to the governor, who has said he supports it.
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Uber Vows to Fight CA Labor Bill
Uber has argued that forcing its drivers to become employees would upend a business model that is built on flexibility.
September 12, 2019
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Increase in Fracking Permits
California's Oil and Gas Supervisor was fired after issuing twice as many fracking permits in the first half of 2019.
July 15, 2019
In this Dec. 10, 2015, file photo, vehicles make their way westbound on Interstate 80 across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as seen from Treasure Island in San Francisco. Major automakers are urging the Trump administration and California to go back to the negotiating table over vehicle mileage standards to prevent a legal battle. The companies sent letters Thursday, June 6, 2019, to President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom saying a failure to reach agreement would create instability in the auto market.
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Automakers Want CA, US to Restart Mileage Talks
Major automobile manufacturers urged the Trump administration and California on Thursday to restart negotiations over vehicle mileage standards.
June 7, 2019
In this November 9, 2018 file photo, Pacific Gas & Electric crews work to restore power lines in Paradise, California.
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PG&E Bankruptcy Could Impact Fire Victims
Victims of California wildfires who are suing the utility may not get all the money they may be owed.
January 16, 2019
A salmon replaces the bear on the California state flag that was flown at a news conference held in support of a proposal by state water officials to increase water flows for the lower San Joaquin River to protect fish.
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Farmers Protest Water Plan to Save Salmon
The battle to change water flow pits farmers versus fishermen.
August 21, 2018
In this Oct. 16, 2015 file photo a solar panel is installed on the roof of the Old Governor's Mansion State Historic Park in Sacramento, Calif. After extensive renovations, Gov. Jerry Brown and his wife, Anne Gust Brown moved into the mansion in late 2015, becoming the first chief executive to live in the home since Ronald Reagan in 1967. The California Energy Commission will take up a proposal, Wednesday, May 9, 2018 , to require solar panels on new residential homes and low-rise apartment buildings up to three starting in 2020.
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California Considers Solar Panel Requirement
It would add an average $10,500 in construction costs for a single-family home.
May 9, 2018
In this Dec. 29, 2017, photo, Khalil Moutawakkil, co-founder and CEO of KindPeoples, a marijuana dispensary, looks at different marijuana plants on display in his store in Santa Cruz, Calif. Californians may awake on New Year's Day to a stronger-than-normal whiff of marijuana as America's cannabis king lights up to celebrate the state's first legal retail pot sales.
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Clients Jam Stores as CA Begins Recreational Pot Sales
Customers in some of the state's largest cities encountered reefer sadness.
January 2, 2018
With the U.S Mexican border in the background, California State Attorney General Xavier Becerra talks to members of the media after he announced that he'd be filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the building of a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, during a news conference at Border Field State Park in San Diego on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017.
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CA Sues to Stop Border Wall
Is the government overstepping its authority by waiving environmental reviews?
September 21, 2017