climate change

Yuba City will enact new water use restrictions next month as the city enters a phase of “severe shortage.”

The Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California declared a water shortage emergency on Tuesday and approved “unprecedented” water use restrictions that will impact six million residents across Los Angeles, Ventura, and San Bernardino counties.

The “Fire Ready Formula” also calls for elevating wildfires to the “same category of global humanitarian response as major earthquakes and floods.” It recommends stronger international safety standards for firefighters as well.

Cities considered by CDP had to have an emissions reduction and renewable energy goal, as well as a climate action plan. They were required to disclose their emissions inventory to CDP.

How will they pay for it?

Mixed messages from public officials are making frustrations worse.

Amid frustrations, Carson Mayor Pro Tem Jim Dear acknowledges the city should’ve acted more quickly.

Natural gas will be prohibited for new residential and commercial construction in Encinitas.