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KPCC's award-winning news team brings you features and interviews focusing on science and technology in Southern California. KPCC's local reporting can be heard during Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and throughout the day, at 89.3 FM. Visit KPCC online at www.kpcc.org. Note: These stories are part of KPCC's ongoing news coverage. Topic-based stories will appear in this podcast as they are broadcast on-air. New stories may appear daily, weekly, or bi-weekly, not necessarily on a predictable schedule.


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California lawmakers pass water plan to improve supply
After months of negotiation and a couple of all-night voting sessions, state lawmakers passed a cluster of bills Wednesday morning designed to improve California’s water supply. They’ve called the $11 billion package “historic” – and it is. The plan alters the way California manages water. ...

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[ Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:36:43 -0800 ]


City of Malibu seeks septic tank solutions
Septic tanks helped give birth to the city of Malibu just 18 years ago. People along 21 miles of scenic coastline wanted local control over how Malibu would treat wastewater. Now regional water officials will vote on whether to prohibit septic systems. Regulators blame septic tanks for poor water quality along the coast, at surf spots and in Malibu Lagoon....

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[ Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:50:03 -0800 ]


LA County weighs in on MPAs: Yes in Malibu, no at Rocky Point
Los Angeles County supervisors have added their opinion to the debate over where and how to protect marine life off the Southern California coast....

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[ Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:10:51 -0800 ]


Historic legislation to improve California’s water supply stalled in Legislature
A vote on bills to improve California’s water supply stalled in the state legislature Tuesday.  The Senate has passed several of the bills that comprise a comprehensive overhaul of the way the state manages and monitors water.  One of the more controversial bills has hit a snag. ...

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[ Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:21:01 -0800 ]


LADWP sponsoring drought-friendly landscaping workshops
Water use restrictions and occasional brushfires are constant reminders that the Southland is enduring another year of drought. Here’s a partial remedy: drought-tolerant landscaping workshops begin this Saturday, Nov. 7. ...

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[ Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:25:05 -0800 ]


Green buildings grow on Skid Row
Near the Los Angeles Convention Center, a curved white building rises along the 10 freeway. The New Carver apartments will fill with disabled and recently homeless residents. The building's one of several green projects for people who live in and around downtown L.A.’s Skid Row. KPCC's Molly Peterson checked it out before the new tenants move in....

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[ Tue, 3 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0800 ]


GOP boycotts climate change debate
When you’re in the minority in Washington, you often have to get creative to make your point. Tuesday in the House of Representatives, Republicans will take turns reading the entire health care bill out loud. GOP senators are trying a different tactic with the climate change bill. They’re staging a boycott. ...

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[ Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:28:57 -0800 ]


California's lawmakers to vote on comprehensive water policy change
California lawmakers could vote as early as today on bills intended to improve the state’s water supply. Some thought they’d be able to agree on a plan last week, but negotiations stalled. Despite the setbacks, one veteran of California’s water wars says there’s still reason to hope legislators will finally improve the state's water supply....

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[ Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:09:13 -0800 ]


Facebook wins anti-spam case
Social networking site Facebook says it has won a multi-million dollar award in an anti-spam case. ...

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[ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:21:21 -0700 ]


UC Irvine study suggests bad driving sometimes genetic
A new study suggests bad driving may be in your genes. ...

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[ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:19:46 -0700 ]


CA stem cell institute gives $200M in research grants
California’s Institute for Regeneratiave Medicine Wednesday awarded more than $200 million in research grants. Officials with the agency targeted research projects that could yield potential treatments for chronic and deadly diseases within the next four years....

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[ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:13:03 -0700 ]


Predecessor to the Internet turns 40
If you’re listening online, or checking there for messages, the sequence of events that made it possible reached a milestone 40 years ago. UCLA’s scheduled a daylong event to mark the anniversary....

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[ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:44:37 -0700 ]


California lawmakers propose to spend $9 billion to improve water supply
State lawmakers haven’t agreed on how to improve California's water supply. But Wednesday they agreed on how much that effort will cost. They say a little more than $9 billion ought to do it....

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[ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:55:49 -0700 ]


Something else to worry about in a pandemic - Internet overload
Doctors advise people who suspect they have the flu to stay home. But a congressional subcommittee wondered whether that advice could lead to an unintended online crisis....

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[ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:49:26 -0700 ]


Senate climate change hearings begin
The secretaries of Energy, Transportation, and Interior will testify Tuesday before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. They all want to be heard during the committee’s debate on a sweeping climate change bill....

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[ Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:36:33 -0700 ]


Unique dinosaur fossils on display at LA County Natural History Museum
Fossils of what is believed to be North America's smallest dinosaur are on display now at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The Fruitadens Haagarorum was no more than two pounds and slightly over a couple feet long. The juveniles were even smaller. Scientists say the Fruitadens Haagarorum was primarily a plant-eating dinosuar, but they believe it supplemented its diet by eating non-plant items, like bugs or small animals. The dinosaur was named in honor of Paul Haaga, the pres...

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[ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:25:12 -0700 ]


UC Irvine scientists look to eyes to diagnose, treat Alzheimer’s disease
A new UC Irvine study suggests the eyes might give doctors a clue about whether someone has Alzheimer’s disease....

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[ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:31:56 -0700 ]


UCLA animal researchers step up efforts against protesters
Scientists at UCLA are stepping up their campaign against violent extremists and others who say there’s no human benefit from experiments on animals....

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[ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:37:26 -0700 ]


San Onofre nuclear power plant to test sirens
If you live or work in South Orange County, you'll hear a familiar sound Wednesday morning. The San Onofre Nuclear Station will do an annual test of its sirens between 10 and noon today....

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[ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:00:00 -0700 ]


Boxer climate change bill depends on state, not party interests
Next week, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee begins hearings on a climate change bill that's co-authored by Barbara Boxer of California. The battle lines over the bill may be drawn along state, and not party, interests....

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[ Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:18:36 -0700 ]


LA Council members say DWP customers need advocate
Several Los Angeles City Council members are calling for a new independent watchdog at the Department of Water and Power....

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[ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:14:30 -0700 ]


Millions participate in California earthquake drill
Alarms rang throughout California at 10:15 Thursday morning for a statewide earthquake safety drill, the Great California ShakeOut....

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[ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:23:03 -0700 ]


Lawmakers' renewable portfolio standard gets the bounce
One of the bills Governor Schwarzenegger didn’t sign this week was a new mandate for California utilities to use renewable power. KPCC's Molly Peterson has the story....

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[ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:47:20 -0700 ]


Solar net metering pleases trade groups, greens, not utilities
If you’ve got solar panels on your rooftop, a new California law will pay you for the energy those panels add to the grid. KPCC’s Molly Peterson reports....

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[ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:39:27 -0700 ]


Fire-charred parts of San Bernardino County on mudslide alert
Rain is also expected over the San Bernardino Mountains. Recent wildfires there scorched about 10,000 acres of forest land. Crews contained one of those fires just a few days ago. KPCC’s Steven Cuevas says there hasn’t been much time to prepare for possible mudslides....

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[ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:23:31 -0700 ]


Southern Californians go shark tagging
On October 15th, a group of intrepid undersea explorers from Southern California will travel to the remote coastal village of Bahia de Los Angeles on the Sea of Cortez. There they will try to tag whale sharks. It's part of a project organized by Woodland Hills based Iemanya Oceanica to preserve these mammoth sharks. KPCC's Alex Cohen spoke with Patty Civalleri of Iemanya Oceanica's Board of Directors about the trip....

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[ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:47:00 -0700 ]


Foothill communities brace for mudflow from October storm
The National Weather Service says the local foothills and mountains could get up to four inches of rain from the storm that’s moving in Tuesday. That’s trouble for foothill and canyon neighborhoods below the Station Fire burn area, where the rain plus a landscape with vegetation burned away could mean one muddy mess....

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[ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:00:00 -0700 ]


California, Interior Dept. agree to fast track renewable energy
A new agreement between California and the U.S. Department of the Interior Monday will speed up plans for renewable energy projects in the state. KPCC’s Brian Watt reports....

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[ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:21:03 -0700 ]


LA residents testing new water conservation program
Los Angeles residents are harvesting rainwater from their home rooftops as Southern California reels from a fourth year of drought. It's part of a new effort by the city of Los Angeles. KPCC's Molly Peterson looks at how some Angelenos are making it work....

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[ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:00:00 -0700 ]


NASA moon crash successful
NASA scientists, and amateur astronomers across the world, watched early this morning as two spacecraft crashed into the moon. A two-ton empty rocket hull smacked into the South Pole at 4:30 this morning, followed by a probe, with cameras and instruments, a few minutes later. Jeremy Amarant is the director of the SAGE Planetarium in Palmdale. He told KPCC's Steve Julian about what he saw when the rocket crashed into the moon....

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[ Fri, 9 Oct 2009 06:20:24 -0700 ]

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