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Sacramento, California - Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) celebrates the successful acquisition of over $27 million in state grants awarded to the 56th California State Assembly District to create more sustainable communities with housing and transportation synergy. Projects in the cities of Coachella and Brawley were among twenty-five Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program (AHSC) grant proposals approved by the Strategic Growth Council on Friday, June 21, 2019.
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San Diego, California - World Giraffe Day (June 21, 2019), San Diego Zoo Global’s Wildwatch Kenya citizen science project is celebrating its second anniversary—and a monumental conservation achievement. Researchers announced that the project’s more than 15,000 online volunteers have identified and retired over 1 million individual images from motion-activated trail cameras in Kenya—completing almost 10 years’ worth of giraffe conservation work. This has provided researchers with crucial data to help identify the locations where giraffes travel, allowing them to update inaccurate range maps for the first time since the organization started the reticulated giraffe conservation and research program.
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West Lafayette, Indiana - Astronomers have identified two planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, that could support life. The planets, which orbit Teegarden’s star, are unlikely to have intense solar flares or other dangerous activity that could prevent life there. The findings were published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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Washington, DC - America’s children are under attack by the entertainment industry, says Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens. He cites the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, which reports that a Netflix TV series, which premiered two years ago, 13 Reasons Why, is associated with a significant increase in suicides among adolescents.
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Washington, DC - At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has temporarily halted and frozen the assets of Grand Teton Professionals, an alleged credit repair scheme that charged illegal upfront fees and falsely claimed to repair consumers’ credit. The company and other defendants are charged with violating the FTC Act and several provisions of the Credit Repair Organizations Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, the Consumer Review Fairness Act, the Truth in Lending Act, and the Electronic Funds Transfer Act.
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San Diego, California - For 50 years, the staff at Cocha Cashu Biological Station in Peru has been working to protect an irreplaceable ecosystem in the heart of Peru’s Manu National Park, a landscape critical for sustaining global biodiversity and preventing mass extinction.
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