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Oakland environmentalists plan last-resort protests against coal terminal

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After the construction of a West Oakland coal terminal was approved by the California Supreme Court in September, members of environmental group 350 East Bay Area have renewed a decade-long movement to keep potentially carcinogenic coal out of the Bay.  Many anti-coal advocates were disappointed this fall, after the Court decided not to review a […]

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Palo Alto City Council hears calls for increased gas safety education, questions language use in community survey 

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PALO ALTO – Students and community members urged the Palo Alto City Council to educate the public about the health risks of gas stoves.  “We’re feeding chemicals into people’s homes that injure kids’ lungs. We need to educate the public who don’t know this to let them have a choice,” chemical engineer and resident Sven Thesen said at the council

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Palo Alto City Council votes yes on synthetic turf at El Camino Field

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PALO ALTO – The Palo Alto City Council moved to replace existing synthetic turf at El Camino Park with cork turf at its Jan. 12 meeting, rejecting the recommendations of county health authorities who recommended that the city install grass. In a presentation to the council, Division Manager of Open Space, Parks and Golf Sarah

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Barriers to US suburban Mpox vaccination persist amidst global emergency 

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SAN MATEO — As cases of Mpox rise abroad, residents in San Mateo County still face barriers to getting vaccinated.   This low uptake comes as a more severe strain of Mpox, Clade IB, surges in the Congo with first confirmed spreading to Germany and the UK last week. There are no reports of any Clade

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