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CA - L.A. doesn’t love N.Y. over ‘We’re No. 1’ seaport claims

It’s good to be No. 1. That’s the spot held for more than two decades by the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, a combined international trade powerhouse that moves nearly 40% of the products imported from Asia to U.S. stores and factories.

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Recreation

CA - California Coastal Commission Will Appeal SLO Judge’s Oceano Dunes Ruling

The California Coastal Commission will appeal a recent ruling by a San Luis Obispo Superior Court judge to allow off-road riding at the Oceano Dunes.

West Coast
Federal

CA - After decades, a tribe's vision for a new marine sanctuary could be coming true

The central California coast, with its rugged beaches and kelp forests, draws a lot of visitors for its scenic beauty. For the Chumash people, the coastline means a lot more.

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Science

OR - Oregon State researchers estimate gray whales consume millions of microparticles each day

Researchers at Oregon State University estimate that gray whales are consuming between 6.5 and 21 million microparticles per day.

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Federal

CA - Northern Chumash Tribal Council Chairwoman selected to federal ocean research advisory panel (with previous American Shoreline Podcast interview)

SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. – Chairwoman of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council, Violet Sage Walker, was appointed to the federal Ocean Research Advisory Panel on Aug. 1.

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Justice

CA - $100 Million Grant to Assist California Native Tribes With Buying Back Land

The Tribal Nature-Based Solutions grant program is an effort to meet the state’s land conservation goals and also a means to strengthen partnerships with native tribes. Some tribes, however, have raised concerns over its focus.

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Energy

CA - California Needs Renewable Energy. Could We Harness the Power of the Ocean?

Waves have been on the mind of Alex Kwok, a Bay Curious listener who grew up in Fremont. When it comes to green energy, he’s seen a lot of solar and wind energy projects here in California. But he says the ocean seems particularly promising because of its consistency.

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Tourism

CA - City may permanently restrict access to Point La Jolla

It will be up to the full City Council to decide if the partial closure of Point La Jolla, pupping grounds for sea lions, should be extended year-round.

West Coast
Science

CA - Surf’s up in California as climate change leads to more massive waves

Waves are getting bigger and surf at least 13 feet (about 4 meters) tall is becoming more common off California’s coast as the planet warms, according to innovative new research that tracked the increasing height from historical data gathered over the past 90 years.

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Engineering

CA - California winter waves may be boosted by climate change, imperiling fragile coast

Winter waves along California’s shoreline may be growing in height due to the impacts of climate change — posing a potential threat to an already vulnerable coastal ecosystem, a new study has found.

West Coast
Science

CA - Waves off the California coast are getting taller due to global warming

Ocean waves along the California coastline have long symbolized the best the state has to offer: surf-ready swells at Malibu and Rincon; the misty beauty of breakers crashing along the North Coast; the foamy, playful waves welcoming beachgoers from San Diego to Santa Cruz.

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Energy

CA - Port of Entry: Humboldt Harbor District begins environmental review for project to turn Humboldt Bay into a wind farm manufacturing hub

Big changes are afoot on the Samoa Peninsula. The Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District is planning to construct a large manufacturing center to craft and assemble giant wind turbines suitable for the deep offshore waters of the Pacific Coast.

West Coast
Advocacy

CA - Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard | Natural Bridges ‘returns’

The Santa Cruz coastline has undergone some dramatic changes over the past century or so, and watching the waves batter West Cliff in early January it’s easy to see why.

West Coast
Engineering

CA - Dune restoration could increase the resilience of Southern California's urban beaches to sea level rise

Over the last several years, the residents of Santa Monica, a coastal city on the edge of Los Angeles, saw something neither they, their parents, or perhaps even their grandparents had ever seen before: a three-foot-tall dune system rising gently from the flat, groomed expanse of one of the world's most famous urban beaches. I

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Advocacy

CA - Sonos Joins Maritime Initiative to Protect Sealife on California Coast

The Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies Program has announced that Santa Barbara-based Sonos sound experience company, has joined the program’s Brand Ambassador Initiative.

West Coast
Advocacy

NV - Nevada tribe sues feds over water rights, failure to protect endangered fish

For nearly two decades the federal government mismanaged tribal water rights and failed to preserve enough water to protect two threatened and endangered fish in Pyramid Lake, alleges the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in a federal lawsuit.

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Tourism

CS - Ocean education building design revealed

A “shack” on the Redondo Beach waterfront may be replaced by a $50 million, 29,000 square foot landmark for waterfront education.

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Waterways

CA - Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach get more than $600 million in state grants

The state of California has awarded $1.5 billion in grants to ports and supply chain projects throughout the state.

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Advocacy

ID - Conservation groups intend to ask judge to breach Snake River dams

Coalition says breaching is needed to prevent extinction of sockeye salmon that spawn in Idaho, files notice of its intention to sue Army Corps of Engineers

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Recreation

CA - Coastal Commission overstepped authority on Oceano Dunes, judge rules (with news compilation)

The California Coastal Commission overstepped its authority when it voted to phase out off-road vehicle usage at the Oceano Dunes by 2025, according to a July 19 court ruling.

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Fisheries

CA - New NOAA Fisheries team will tackle Pacific humpback whale

NOAA Fisheries has agreed to establish a team that will focus on reducing the number of Pacific humpback whale entanglements in the sablefish fishery as part of a new legal agreement.

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Advocacy

CA - Biodiversity: Why a Mouse Matters

A reporter tags along on an ‘epic slog’ to survey the salt marsh harvest mouse—the Bay’s own special mouse, and a saltscape survivalist extraordinaire.

West Coast
Advocacy

CA - SB 423: Let’s Build In High Fire Risk Areas And Coastal Zones! What Could Go Wrong?

SENATE BILL - In his latest assault on rational planning practices, State Senator Scott Wiener wants to streamline approvals for residential projects in Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones (VHFHSZs) and Coastal Zones.

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Waterways

OR - With one down, Klamath dam removal proceeds on schedule

Removing the Copco 2 Dam takes deconstruction crews one step closer to drawdowns of the remaining three reservoirs next January.

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Local

CA - Sonoma County coastal plan due for final hearing, possible vote Monday

Years of debate over the ground rules governing land use, development, public access and protection of public resources on the Sonoma Coast may finally come to fruition Monday.

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