Beginning in 2019, kids’ meals sold in California restaurants will include “milk; a non-dairy milk alternative; or sparkling, still or flavored water” by default. Another law will ban restaurants from giving out single-use plastic straws, unless customers ask for them. Neither of the laws ban the practices altogether. Customers can still ask for sugary drinks…
December 30, 2015 Cars that run on water, windmills dotting the countryside, solar panels on every home in America—these are just a few pie-in-the-sky notions those hippie libs have concocted to help save the environment. But there’s another one that’s been gaining traction lately: nuclear power. Yes, scientists and tech entrepreneurs, many based in California,…
June 17, 2015 On May 3rd, tar balls started washing up on a four-mile stretch of coast in Long Beach, Ca. For many southland residents, this was an alarming turn of events and certainly an eyesore that blighted California’s famously pristine shores. But just two days later the beaches were reopened and everything was back…
April 20, 2015 It was no coincidence that California Gov. Jerry Brown announced his recent water-conservation directive from a dry-grass field in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Numbers don’t lie, and this year’s snowpack measurements for that area were a paltry 5% of the April 1st average. Even sadder, that figure represents a 65-year low. Drastic…