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MARTINEZ, Calif.—Scores of people tired of living near accident-prone refineries packed an elementary school auditorium to hear what their government officials were doing to protect them. Two local refineries, Marathon Martinez Renewables and Martinez Refining Co., have racked up hundreds of air quality violations over the past five years. MRC agreed in February to pay […]

Catatan keanekaragaman hayati di banyak wilayah kering belum selengkap yang dibayangkan. Hewan yang bergerak cepat, bersembunyi di semak, atau hanya muncul pada jam tertentu mudah luput dari survei, sehingga satu spesies bisa tidak tercatat di suatu lokasi selama puluhan tahun. Ketika akhirnya ada yang berhasil mendokumentasikannya, temuan itu mengisi kekosongan data yang sudah lama terbuka […] The post Ular Pasir Afro-Asia Muncul Lagi di Pinggir Jalan Setelah Satu Setengah Abad Hilang dari Pengamatan appeared first on Mongabay.co.id.

With temperatures drastically lowering, Glacier National Park is expecting rain and possible snowfall this weekend, the park said in a news release. Beginning at 7 p.m., Oct. 9, a temporary road closure in the alpine section of Going-to-the-Sun Road will be implemented, the park said. The closure will extend from Avalanche to Jackson Glacier Overlook. […]

Sol Dias Ice Cream started in 2020 when the owners could not find ice cream like they grew up with in Mexico.

(The Center Square) - Candidates for Washington Supreme Court Position 4 held a debate Friday morning that focused in large part on the political support each of the candidates has received in a race that is considered non-partisan, with Election Day just three weeks away. The Center Square took part as a panelist in the debate held on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. The race is between King County Superior Court Judge Sean O’Donnell and Washington Court of Appeals Judge Ian Birk, who are competing to replace retiring Justice Charles Johnson on the court. As reported by The Center Square, Birk criticized O’Donnell last month in a campaign email for having Republican supporters, and the backing of the state GOP. O’Donnel fired back with a letter signed by 62 current and former judges to say the attack was inappropriate. During Friday’s debate, panelist Dave Ross asked O’Donnell about Birk suggesting O’Donnell should disavow any GOP support. “Judge Birk is a very smart person...but his judgment on this issue has been exceptionally poor. And the Seattle Times described it as disqualifying. It said that he was headed to the gutter in this race,” said O’Donnell. “Five dozen judges across the state, basically rebuked him for it, and pointed out, we run judicial races differently, and we do it for a reason, because we do not want politics coming into these elections.” Birk responded to say he has no regrets about being critical of O’Donnell for getting GOP support. “I think the voters are entitled to know who is backing a candidate, because that's material information…..I don't look at PDC reports. I don't want to know who my donors are," he said. "I don't want to know who my opponent's donors are, because at the end of all this, my opponent and I will both be judges, and people will come before us, and I don't want that to color anything." On the same question, O’Donnell said a person's political views and political beliefs should have no bearing on how they decide a case. “I decide a case on the facts and the law,” he said, noting that he has endorsements from Democratic former Governors Christine Gregoire and Gary Locke. “When does that happen? That both parties can disagree so much [but] can say, 'we trust you to be fair and impartial.'” The Center Square asked both candidates about the recent Washington Supreme Court ruling invalidating I-2066 to protect natural gas as an energy choice. Candidates were asked, “Any concern that the people's right to initiative is being eroded by the State Supreme Court?” “I think that baked into that question is really sort of a political viewpoint, and I'm not gonna bite on that part of the question," said O'Donnell. "I will say the rights reserved to citizens on an initiative power is right there in the Constitution. And it has to be honored and respected." Birk responded by saying, “Upholding the initiative process is an important function of the court. One of the responsibilities of the court in upholding the state Constitution is to uphold the people's right to self-govern in a democracy." "And that includes their right to govern, through their elected officials by the legislature and their right to govern directly through the initiative process,” he added. “I don't think it's new for the court to apply the single subject rule to initiatives,” he said, adding that he did not want to ‘armchair quarterback’ the courts decision. Birk was referring to the Supreme Court ruling that I-2066 dealt with more than a single subject, which said that voters may not have understood that in protecting natural gas, they were also impacting the environment and amending building codes. Washington Policy Center and the Ruckelshaus Center sponsored several other Supreme Court debates this week, of which The Center Square participated in three as a panelist. Ballots for the Nov. 3 election are expected to be mailed out next week, and voting officially begins Oct. 16.

A North Dakota judge ruled Friday that state rules on where infrastructure such as pipelines can be built do not automatically trump local zoning ordinances.  The ruling comes from a case in which a group of landowners and Emmons and Burleigh counties sued the Public Service Commission and pipeline developer Summit Carbon Solutions.  Bismarck attorney […]

The main gate at Fort Hood can be seen on South Fort Hood Street in Killeen, Texas. (Photo credit: U.S. Army)]]>

Organizers must climb from 11% support at Burnet and 2% at Webb to more than 50% by Oct. 15. The post Austin Council of PTAs joins late push for Burnet, Webb closure petitions appeared first on Austin Current.

Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall near Pensacola, Florida on Friday evening as a Category 3 storm.  As of Friday afternoon,  the storm system was 90 miles south of Pensacola, moving at about 17 mph toward the Gulf Coast with sustained winds of 115 mph. The storm is expected to travel north through Alabama […]

اخبار یک بامداد، آخرین بخش خبری روز از تلویزیون صدای آمریکاست که ساعت یک بامداد به وقت ایران پخش می‌شود و با نگاهی کوتاه به تازه‌ترین تحولات و رخدادهای شبانه، مروری فشرده بر اخبار ارائه می‌دهد و مدت آن یک ساعت است.

وزارت خارجه آمریکا روز جمعه ۱۷ مهر از تصویب قطعنامه‌ای در پارلمان اروپا برای تدوین راهبردی در سطح اتحادیه اروپا با هدف مقابله با «شبکه‌های تروریستی اخوان‌المسلمین» استقبال کرد.

Around 50 Coloradans gathered in a conference room down the street from the state Capitol on Friday morning to become trained poll monitors ahead of the midterm elections, a subset of the 1,000 volunteers statewide who plan to observe polling sites and dropboxes as part of a pro-democracy effort. “We’re obviously nonpartisan. We’re there to […]

New York’s soccer history is rooted in immigrants and labor. Last Saturday’s Brooklyn Champions Cup brought it full circle, featuring ten unique jerseys made by Mazzi Sports, a company of largely immigrants,  and players with immigrant ties. The event was hosted by Brooklyn Org, with teams from NYC Footy.  As the last gasps of the […] The post The Block Comes Together for Rooftop Soccer at the Brooklyn Champions Cup appeared first on Documented.

Combate à fome, agricultura familiar e transferência de renda são fundamentais para garantir direitos e reduzir desigualdades sociais O post O combate à fome não pode ser vítima de guerra ideológica apareceu primeiro em Mídia NINJA.

Oil companies will no longer be required to conduct environmental reviews before exploring for fossil fuel reservoirs in the Western Arctic, the largest tract of federally managed public land in the United States. The Bureau of Land Management announced a categorical exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act for winter oil and gas exploration in […]

Digitalização é cada vez mais dominante, mas convive com imensa desigualdade e condição subalterna do país. Não é mais possível transformá-lo sem examinar tudo o que muda na base da sociedade – e sem lutar por soberania tecnológica The post O novo Brasil que a política (ainda) ignora appeared first on Outras Palavras.

(The Center Square) – A prominent labor union announced this week that its taxpayer-paid members voted to go on a one-day strike after negotiations with California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office stalled. The differences are mostly over increased salaries for government workers, which would cost the state's taxpayers more money. It is unclear what the total monetary figure would be if the Newsom administration agreed to the union's demand to increase workers' pay by 7% this year, another 7% in 2027 and an additional 6% in 2028 - 20% during the next three years. Economist Wayne Winegarden told The Center Square that the current demands for raise hikes would make things worse in a state with high taxes. Approximately 96.2% of SEIU Local 1000’s 100,0000 members voted this week to authorize an unfair practice strike for Oct. 21, saying that state officials bargained in bad faith. "SEIU" stands for Service Employees International Union. Worksite strike lines are scheduled in multiple cities across the state, including five in Sacramento and one each in Oakland, San Francisco, Fresno, Los Angeles, Norwalk, San Bernardino and San Diego. Each strike line is scheduled to start at 7 a.m. on Oct. 21. Anica Walls, president of SEIU Local 1000, told The Center Square on Friday that the Newsom administration rejected all of the union’s proposals for the contract renewal. “Our big-ticket items are general salary increases," Walls said. Wallis added that the union's proposals include affordable healthcare to meet increased costs and a modernization of work "so we can efficiently and effectively continue to save the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars." But Winegarden, the economist, told The Center Square on Friday that he didn’t find that salary increases are financially sustainable for California’s taxpayers. “The state has a spending problem,” said Winegarden, a senior fellow in business and economics at Pasadena, Calif.-based Pacific Research Institute. “If you look at the payment of government workers in California compared to every other state, they’re much better compensated. The idea that they’re striking in order to get 7% increase in pay for the next year and 20% over three years, these are unaffordable increases that if the state acquiesces, it’s the taxpayer who pays for it.” California has some of the highest taxes in the country, Winegarden added. “This is just making it worse." SEIU Local 1000's previous three-year labor contract was estimated to cost taxpayers an additional $1.5 billion when it was enacted in 2023, according to the California Legislative Analyst's Office. But a state budget crisis led to a delay in raises, and the union agreed to temporary pay cuts in June 2025. The current contract expired June 30. The union said the Newsom administration waited until the last minute to reject the union’s proposals when negotiating contract renewal earlier this year, making members of the SEIU Local 1000 work without a contract for more than three months. “CalHR remains ready to sit down anytime with the union to negotiate a fair and responsible agreement,” Angela Musallam, deputy director of communications for the California Department of Human Resources, told The Center Square via email on Friday. “The state remains focused on protecting the critical and essential services that Californians rely on.” Newsom’s office did not comment for this story and instead referred The Center Square to the state Department of Human Resources. The union represents employees of every state government department, according to the SEIU Local 1000 website, including workers in jobs that include nurses, information technology professionals, printers, educators, analysts and custodians, among many other jobs. According to an information webpage about the strike, SEIU Local 1000 officials said any strike of this magnitude will be historic in California. “California has never seen a strike this large involving the workers who keep the state running,” the union said on its website. “The Newsom administration can prevent this by coming to the table and bargaining in good faith. Administrations may change, but our demand will not: bargain fairly with the workers who keep California running.” Under state law, employers can’t discipline or threaten employees who are members of a union and who participate in a strike, but employees who do participate won’t get paid while going on strike. They also can’t use vacation or sick time, according to the SEIU Local 1000. The union has a strike fund to help offset financial losses to employees who go on strike, but the money isn’t meant to replace lost wages employees lose when striking. Rather, that money, which members pay in the form of union dues, is meant to pay for legal services to represent union members if they face retaliation from employers for going on strike.

مایک والتز، سفیر آمریکا در سازمان ملل متحد گفت دونالد ترامپ، از اوکراین خواسته است حملات به پالایشگاه‌های روسیه را متوقف کند تا با افزایش عرضه گازوئیل در بازارهای جهانی، فشار بر اقتصاد جهان کاهش یابد. او در مورد قیمت‌های سوخت گفت این امر به شرایط پالایشگاه‌ها در سطح جهانی بر می‌گردد.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Friday filed a new lawsuit to try to shut down the Dakota Access oil pipeline, continuing a decadelong battle over the project. The tribe filed the case in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials […]

CHARLESTON — Following a fundraiser for her campaign, U.S. Sen. Darline Graham projected confidence while acknowledging a “close race” to keep the South Carolina seat her late brother held for almost 24 years. Appearing beside her for reinforcements were South Carolina’s now-senior senator, Tim Scott, who chairs the fundraising committee for Senate Republicans, and Senate […]