A so-called electric expressway of vehicle charging stations is planned across populated swaths of California, with the help of $100 million secured by the state under a legal settlement that dates back more than a decade to the energy crisis. Under the settlement agreement, announced Friday, NRG Energy Inc. will pay for the installation of 10,000 subscription-based electric vehicle chargers near hospitals, offices, multi-home buildings and other places. Additionally, 200 ......
Millipedes that glow under black lights have been discovered for the first time on Alcatraz. “There are other millipedes out there that are bioluminescent — they give off their own light,” said Bob Kimsey, an entomology professor at the University of California, Davis, who is investigating whether the fluorescent millipedes are a newly discovered subspecies of Xystocheir dissecta, a species found in the Bay Area and elsewhere. “But this is a fundamentally ......
President Barack Obama’s senior advisors say they will urge him veto a controversial water bill — if it reaches his desk. The bill would end many environmental protections for Northern Californian rivers. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act (H.R. 1837), by a 246 to 175 vote, with Republicans supporting the legislation and Democrats opposed. The bill now moves on to the U.S. Senate. The legislation ......
Projected costs associated with the America’s Cup have skyrocketed to $163 million — up from the city's 2010 estimate of $86 million. Meanwhile, doubts are growing about whether the event will be as exciting or as lucrative as initially projected. The cost to overhaul dilapidated piers has more than doubled over the past year — from $55 million to $111 million. Under a proposal that will go before the lawmakers this month, America’s ......
Preparations for the America’s Cup are causing political ripples in San Francisco — but in in the Italian city of Naples, where warm-up regattas are planned, they are drawing high-profile protests. Waterfront construction began this week in Naples, where 45-foot catamarans will race in America’s Cup World Series events this April and in May 2013. But construction crews were met by a picket line of protesters who said the work ......
