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U.S. State Department Temporarily Relaxed Rules for Traveling to Certain Places Outside the U.S.
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California One Step Away From Early Primary
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Small Businesses Eligible For Disaster Loans After This Years Cold Front Causes Economic Losses
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Cloud Seeding
More Teens Buckling Up
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“Fix It” Ticket Sign Off Request Leads To Arrest
Yesterday a man trying to
get a “fix-it ticket” signed off got much more when CHP Amador Unit Community
Outreach Officer John C. Hardey was outside the CHP Offices and observed the man drive into the CHP
parking lot, park, and then make a bee line for the front door. As the
man approached the front door Officer Hardey noticed he was walking with a
staggered gate. Sgt. Roderick Sloan met the met the man at the front counter, who had business in the form of
a sign off of a ticket he had received previously.
Sgt. Sloan noticed that the man smelled of alcohol as well as displaying other objective symptoms of intoxication. Beat Officer Brendan Hallam was called to the Offices and conducted a series of pre-demonstrated field sobriety tests, which William Main of Ione, failed. Main was subsequently determined to be at twice the legal limit for alcohol according to the CHP. Officer Hallam arrested Main and transported him to the Amador County Jail. “The moral of the story is, don’t come to the Highway Patrol when you’re deuced,” said Officer Hardey.
Gov. Schwarzenegger Signed an Executive Order for Low Carbon Fuel Standards
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Eldorado National Forest To Begin Evaluation of Recreational Facilities
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Bold Step Towards Reducing Traffic Accidents
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Enforcing Decade Old Regulations
San Joaquin Valley air regulators approved a
plan Wednesday to clean up the
region's soot-laden air so that it meets federal pollution standards set more
than a decade ago. California's farm belt has some of the highest levels of
airborne dust, smoke and soot in the country. In all, 26 of California's 52 counties
with air-quality monitoring stations received failing grades for either high
ozone or particle pollution days, according to an American Lung Association
Report. Amador, Calaveras and
Sacramento Counties were tops on the list. San Joaquin valley air is blamed for
contributing to our local air problems, one Amador Air Control official
said. The San Joaquin district's governing board voted 8-3 in favor of a plan
that could keep families from using their fireplaces for up to 35 days each
winter and require local employers to have a portion of their workers carpool.
Environmentalists said the proposal didn't go far enough, and unfurled white
prayer flags outside the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District's
meeting in Fresno to illustrate the premature deaths associated with the
valley's polluted air. Community members wore paper dust masks as they
testified about the effects of particulate matter pollution, which has been
linked to respiratory problems, heart attacks and lung cancer. The plan is meant to comply
with standards set in 1997 under the federal Clean Air Act that measure the
highest levels of one kind of particulate pollution allowed over one year.
More rigorous standards were adopted in 2006, an issue that air regulators will have to address after meeting 1997 levels. Farmers speaking at Wednesday's meeting warned that a stricter plan would have risked job losses in the valley, the nation's most productive region for fruits and vegetables. Air quality advocates said the approved plan could have done more to regulate dairies, wineries and diesel pumps on farms, some of the many sources that contribute to the tiny specks of pollution. If the California Air Resources Board sanctions the plan, it will head to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for final approval.