Rebecca Miller

PhD Candidate in environment and resources, Stanford University

Rebecca Miller on KCRW

Fires in Northern California continue to burn. Because of climate change, fire seasons have become increasingly worse.

Controlled burns could lessen wildfires, says Stanford study

Fires in Northern California continue to burn. Because of climate change, fire seasons have become increasingly worse.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

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Proposition 3 would enshrine the right for same-sex couples to marry in the California constitution. It would also repeal and replace language from 2008 that says otherwise.

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The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted a strategic plan to build the state’s offshore wind industry. Much of that will happen at the Port of Long Beach.

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Our current recycling system isn’t set up to recycle textiles. But a new CA law gives clothing brands a deadline to figure out how to do it.

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California could lead the nation with a bill that would open up on-campus jobs at public universities and colleges to the state’s 60,000 undocumented students.

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World-famous pianist Hershey Felder talks about his new role as composer Sergei Rachamanioff in the new play, “ Rachmaninoff and the Tsar ,” at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.

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