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Committee hearing highlights benefits of protecting California’s coast

Oceans

Committee hearing highlights benefits of protecting California’s coast

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – As summer brings waves of visitors to California’s beaches and coastline, members of the State Assembly debated Tuesday how the state can keep more of its ocean heritage safe. The Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee heard testimony in support of ACR-210, a resolution introduced by Assemblymember Steve Bennett that calls on state agencies to prioritize creating new marine protected areas as they implement the state’s 30x30 goals.

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Dangerous and unnecessary: New report finds we shouldn’t mine the deep sea

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Dangerous and unnecessary: New report finds we shouldn’t mine the deep sea

LOS ANGELES -- According to a new report released Tuesday, we do not need destructive deep-sea mining operations to meet our critical mineral needs -- even with California’s ambitious goal to reach 100% clean energy by 2045. In fact, the world trashes more copper and cobalt – metals used to build clean energy technologies – in our electronic waste than would likely be extracted each year from the central Pacific through at least 2035, underscoring the importance of California’s Right to Repair Act, which will go into effect July 1.

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