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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – On Tuesday, Jan. 30, at approximately 10 a.m., the Lake County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Services will initiate an “All-Call” with the Nixle 360 system.
The “All-Call” is designed to test the system to ensure it is operating correctly and reaching as many people as possible.
Nixle 360 provides emergency notification services to the residents in Lake County. The notifications are primarily done through landline, cell phone, text message and emails.
"By utilizing the Nixle 360 emergency alerting system, we’re able to streamline and make the process much more efficient in the way we notify residents of actual emergencies including imminent threats, saving time and redirecting valuable resources elsewhere that we need to protect our community in times of crisis,” said Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin.
Officials encourage all residents and businesses to go to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office Web site at www.lakesheriff.com and click on the Nixle 360 “Services” tab on the Web page, then click on the “Nixle Alerts” tab.
Residents and business owners are strongly encouraged to enter their contact information, including additional phone numbers, cell phone, text and email addresses. By doing this, it ensures the best chance of being contacted during an emergency or critical situation.
If you do not have Internet access, please contact a friend or family member to help add your contact information to the emergency database. You can also call the Lake County Office of Emergency Services at 707-263-1813 for assistance.
The “All-Call” is designed to test the system to ensure it is operating correctly and reaching as many people as possible.
Nixle 360 provides emergency notification services to the residents in Lake County. The notifications are primarily done through landline, cell phone, text message and emails.
"By utilizing the Nixle 360 emergency alerting system, we’re able to streamline and make the process much more efficient in the way we notify residents of actual emergencies including imminent threats, saving time and redirecting valuable resources elsewhere that we need to protect our community in times of crisis,” said Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin.
Officials encourage all residents and businesses to go to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office Web site at www.lakesheriff.com and click on the Nixle 360 “Services” tab on the Web page, then click on the “Nixle Alerts” tab.
Residents and business owners are strongly encouraged to enter their contact information, including additional phone numbers, cell phone, text and email addresses. By doing this, it ensures the best chance of being contacted during an emergency or critical situation.
If you do not have Internet access, please contact a friend or family member to help add your contact information to the emergency database. You can also call the Lake County Office of Emergency Services at 707-263-1813 for assistance.
LOWER LAKE, Calif. – A mountain lion was spotted in the Jago Bay area on Friday.
Jago Bay resident Paul Glendinning reported sighting to Lake County News.
He said the mountain lion was seen by a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. contractor at about 1:15 p.m. Friday at the corner of Anderson Road and Lake Boulevard, heading southwest up the mountain.
The animal was said to be 100 pounds and 2 and a half feet tall, according to Glendinning’s report.
Glendinning said he also reported the sighting to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. He was advised that while it’s common for mountain lions to wander through the area, they’re not typically down that far.
In his time in the area, Glendinning said he’s not aware of a mountain lion sighting there, and added that he was concerned for area residents – many of whom are elderly – noting that they have small animals and take walks throughout the neighborhood.
Mountain lion sightings have become more common around Lake County in recent years. This past year in the Lakeport area several different mountain lion sightings were reported.
For advice on living in mountain lion country visit https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/keep-me-wild/lion.
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Jago Bay resident Paul Glendinning reported sighting to Lake County News.
He said the mountain lion was seen by a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. contractor at about 1:15 p.m. Friday at the corner of Anderson Road and Lake Boulevard, heading southwest up the mountain.
The animal was said to be 100 pounds and 2 and a half feet tall, according to Glendinning’s report.
Glendinning said he also reported the sighting to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. He was advised that while it’s common for mountain lions to wander through the area, they’re not typically down that far.
In his time in the area, Glendinning said he’s not aware of a mountain lion sighting there, and added that he was concerned for area residents – many of whom are elderly – noting that they have small animals and take walks throughout the neighborhood.
Mountain lion sightings have become more common around Lake County in recent years. This past year in the Lakeport area several different mountain lion sightings were reported.
For advice on living in mountain lion country visit https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/keep-me-wild/lion.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – The discovery of the bodies of two women – one in a freezer, one in a pond – at an Arbuckle almond arm has led to a man’s arrest.
Martin Christian Ehrke, 49, who along with the women and other individuals was reported to have lived at the farm, was arrested on Thursday, according to the Colusa County Sheriff’s Office. He was arraigned on Friday.
The women whose bodies were found at the farm were identified by authorities as 39-year-old Kimberly Lynn Taylor and 25-year-old Jessica Lynn Mazak.
At 3:55 a.m. the Colusa County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence in the 6000 block of Hillgate Road in Arbuckle, for a report of suspicious circumstances, officials said.
Upon the arrival of first responders, deputies were informed of a possible human body in a freezer, located in an attached residence on the property. The sheriff’s office said deputies discovered evidence of a crime scene as well as a possible body inside a freezer.
On-scene deputies notified detectives from the sheriff’s office, who also responded. A search warrant was prepared for the entire property and served at approximately 10 a.m. Thursday, according to the sheriff’s office report.
Upon service of the search warrant, detectives confirmed that an adult female body had been placed inside a chest freezer, inside a bedroom, in an attached residence on the property.
The sheriff’s office identified the deceased adult female as Taylor.
The Colusa County Sheriff’s Office and the California Department of Justice continued to investigate the scene as well as interviewing persons who reside at the property.
Evidence from the investigation led to request of the Colusa County Dive Team to search a large pond located on the property. A second adult female was found submerged in the pond and recovered by the dive team. The deceased adult female was identified as Mazak, the sheriff’s office said.
Authorities said both Taylor and Mazak were known to reside on the property, but had no relationship to the property owner. Investigators also found an illegal marijuana grow and narcotics on the property.
Ehrke was detained on Thursday and taken to the Colusa County Sheriff’s Office for questioning. During the investigation, it was discovered that he left the residence on Wednesday evening and checked into the Colusa Medical Center for an unknown reason. He was released from the hospital a short time later, officials said.
The investigation led the Colusa County Sheriff’s Office to a residence in Colusa, where Ehrke was found and detained for questioning.
Ehrke was later charged with two counts of homicide and booked into the Colusa County Jail.
If anyone has information regarding this incident, they are asked to contact Sgt. Jose Ruiz or Detective Marvin Garibay at 530-458-0200.
Martin Christian Ehrke, 49, who along with the women and other individuals was reported to have lived at the farm, was arrested on Thursday, according to the Colusa County Sheriff’s Office. He was arraigned on Friday.
The women whose bodies were found at the farm were identified by authorities as 39-year-old Kimberly Lynn Taylor and 25-year-old Jessica Lynn Mazak.
At 3:55 a.m. the Colusa County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence in the 6000 block of Hillgate Road in Arbuckle, for a report of suspicious circumstances, officials said.
Upon the arrival of first responders, deputies were informed of a possible human body in a freezer, located in an attached residence on the property. The sheriff’s office said deputies discovered evidence of a crime scene as well as a possible body inside a freezer.
On-scene deputies notified detectives from the sheriff’s office, who also responded. A search warrant was prepared for the entire property and served at approximately 10 a.m. Thursday, according to the sheriff’s office report.
Upon service of the search warrant, detectives confirmed that an adult female body had been placed inside a chest freezer, inside a bedroom, in an attached residence on the property.
The sheriff’s office identified the deceased adult female as Taylor.
The Colusa County Sheriff’s Office and the California Department of Justice continued to investigate the scene as well as interviewing persons who reside at the property.
Evidence from the investigation led to request of the Colusa County Dive Team to search a large pond located on the property. A second adult female was found submerged in the pond and recovered by the dive team. The deceased adult female was identified as Mazak, the sheriff’s office said.
Authorities said both Taylor and Mazak were known to reside on the property, but had no relationship to the property owner. Investigators also found an illegal marijuana grow and narcotics on the property.
Ehrke was detained on Thursday and taken to the Colusa County Sheriff’s Office for questioning. During the investigation, it was discovered that he left the residence on Wednesday evening and checked into the Colusa Medical Center for an unknown reason. He was released from the hospital a short time later, officials said.
The investigation led the Colusa County Sheriff’s Office to a residence in Colusa, where Ehrke was found and detained for questioning.
Ehrke was later charged with two counts of homicide and booked into the Colusa County Jail.
If anyone has information regarding this incident, they are asked to contact Sgt. Jose Ruiz or Detective Marvin Garibay at 530-458-0200.
The lunar eclipse on Jan. 31 will give a team of scientists a special opportunity to study the Moon using the astronomer’s equivalent of a heat-sensing, or thermal, camera.
Three lunar events will come together in an unusual overlap that’s being playfully called a super blue blood moon.
The second full moon in January will take place on the 31st, making it the first blue moon of 2018.
It also will be considered a supermoon – one that appears slightly larger and brighter than usual because it occurs when the Moon is near its perigee, or the closest point in its orbit to Earth.
In addition, a lunar eclipse will take place in the morning on Jan. 31, temporarily giving the Moon a reddish color known as a blood moon.
For the researchers, the eclipse offers a chance to see what happens when the surface of the Moon cools quickly.
This information will help them understand some of the characteristics of the regolith – the mixture of soil and loose rocks on the surface – and how it changes over time.
“During a lunar eclipse, the temperature swing is so dramatic that it’s as if the surface of the Moon goes from being in an oven to being in a freezer in just a few hours,” said Noah Petro, deputy project scientist for NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Normally, the transitions into and out of darkness, and the temperature changes that go with them, are spread out over the course of a lunar day, which lasts 29-and-a-half Earth days. A lunar eclipse shifts these changes into high gear.
From the Haleakala Observatory on the island of Maui in Hawaii, the team will conduct their investigations at invisible wavelengths where heat is sensed. They’ve done this kind of study a few times already, singling out individual lunar locations to see how well they retain warmth throughout the eclipse.
“The whole character of the Moon changes when we observe with a thermal camera during an eclipse,” said Paul Hayne of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. “In the dark, many familiar craters and other features can’t be seen, and the normally non-descript areas around some craters start to 'glow,' because the rocks there are still warm.”
How quickly or slowly the surface loses heat depends on the sizes of the rocks and the characteristics of the material, including its composition, how porous it is and how fluffy it is.
Lunar scientists already know a lot about the day-to-night and seasonal temperature changes from the data collected by LRO’s Diviner instrument since 2009. Those longer-term variations reveal information about larger features and the bulk properties of the top few inches of regolith. The short-term changes due to the eclipse will get at details of the fine material and the very top layer of the regolith.
By comparing the two types of observations, the team is able to look at variations in particular areas – say, the lunar swirls at Reiner Gamma or an impact crater and the loose debris around it.
This kind of information is useful for practical purposes such as scouting out suitable landing sites. It also helps researchers understand the evolution of the surface of the Moon.
“These studies will help us tell the story of how impacts large and small are changing the surface of the Moon over geological time,” said Petro.
Launched on June 18, 2009, LRO has collected a treasure trove of data with its seven powerful instruments, making an invaluable contribution to our knowledge about the Moon. LRO is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and is part of the Discovery Program managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Elizabeth Zubritsky works for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Taking action to further California’s climate leadership, Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday signed an executive order to boost the supply of zero-emission vehicles and charging and refueling stations in California.
The governor also detailed the new plan for investing $1.25 billion in cap-and-trade auction proceeds to reduce carbon pollution and improve public health and the environment.
“This executive order aims to curb carbon pollution from cars and trucks and boost the number of zero-emission vehicles driven in California,” said Gov. Brown. “In addition, the cap-and-trade investments will, in varying degrees, reduce California’s carbon footprint and improve the quality of life for all.”
Zero-emission vehicle executive order
California is taking action to dramatically reduce carbon emissions from transportation – a sector that accounts for 50 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and 80 percent of smog-forming pollutants.
To continue to meet California’s climate goals and clean air standards, California must go even further to accelerate the market for zero-emission vehicles.
Friday’s executive order implements the governor’s call for a new target of 5 million ZEVs in California by 2030, announced in his State of the State address yesterday, and will help significantly expand vehicle charging infrastructure.
The administration is also proposing a new eight-year initiative to continue the state’s clean vehicle rebates and spur more infrastructure investments. This $2.5 billion initiative will help bring 250,000 vehicle charging stations and 200 hydrogen fueling stations to California by 2025.
Friday’s action builds on past efforts to boost zero-emission vehicles, including: legislation signed last year and in 2014 and 2013; adopting the 2016 Zero-Emission Vehicle Plan and the Advanced Clean Cars program; hosting a Zero-Emission Vehicle Summit; launching a multi-state ZEV Action Plan; co-founding the International ZEV Alliance; and issuing Executive Order B-16-12 in 2012 to help bring 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles to California by 2025.
In addition to Friday’s executive order, the governor also released the 2018 plan for California’s Climate Investments – a statewide initiative that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment–particularly in disadvantaged communities.
California Climate Investments projects include affordable housing, renewable energy, public transportation, zero-emission vehicles, environmental restoration, more sustainable agriculture and recycling, among other projects. At least 35 percent of these investments are made in disadvantaged and low-income communities.
The $1.25 billion climate investment plan can be found at http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2018-19/pdf/BudgetSummary/ClimateChange.pdf .
The full text of the executive order is below:
WHEREAS California is the largest market in the United States for zero-emission vehicles and approximately half of all zero-emission vehicles in the nation are sold in this state; and
WHEREAS California increased the number of zero-emission vehicles in the state by 1300 percent in six years – growing from 25,000 in 2012 to more than 350,000 today – and zero-emission vehicles now account for approximately 5 percent of all new car sales in California; and
WHEREAS the transportation sector still emits 50 percent of California’s total greenhouse gas emissions and 80 percent of the smog-forming oxides of nitrogen; and
WHEREAS California’s 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan – which charts the path for meeting the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and air quality goals – calls for major increases in zero-emission vehicles on the roads; and
WHEREAS Executive Order B-16-12 called for 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2025; and
WHEREAS California’s eight-year, $2.5 billion investment plan will help achieve the requirements of Executive Order B-16-12 by 2025 by funding more zero-emission infrastructure and continuing vehicle rebates for consumers; and
WHEREAS California can exceed its existing 2025 zero-emission vehicle goals by increasing the availability of charging and refueling stations and other zero-emission vehicle infrastructure; and
WHEREAS further boosting California’s zero-emission vehicle market will strengthen the economy, improve air quality and public health, lower fuel costs for drivers and reduce the state’s dependence on fossil fuels; and
WHEREAS California must continue to attract and encourage significant investments in zero-emission vehicles and infrastructure from utilities, car manufacturers and vehicle charging and re-fueling companies.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Edmund G. Brown Jr., Governor of the State of California, do hereby issue the following orders to become effective immediately:
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that all State entities work with the private sector and all appropriate levels of government to put at least 5 million zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2030.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all State entities work with the private sector and all appropriate levels of government to spur the construction and installation of 200 hydrogen fueling stations and 250,000 zero-emission vehicle chargers, including 10,000 direct current fast chargers, by 2025.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all State entities continue to partner with regional and local governments to streamline zero-emission vehicle infrastructure installation processes wherever possible. As part of this effort, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development shall publish a Plug-in Charging Station Development Guidebook and update the 2015 Hydrogen Station Permitting Guidebook.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all State entities, in carrying out programs under their authorities, shall collaborate with stakeholders to implement this order, including but not limited to taking the following actions:
– Update the 2016 Zero-Emission Vehicle Action plan to help expand private investment in zero-emission vehicle infrastructure, particularly in low income and disadvantaged communities.
– Recommend actions that boost zero-emission vehicle infrastructure to strengthen the economy and create jobs in the State of California.
– Recommend ways to expand zero-emission vehicle infrastructure through the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program.
– Support and recommend policies and actions that make it easier for people to install electric vehicle chargers in their homes and businesses.
– Ensure electric vehicle charging and hydrogen fueling are affordable and more accessible to all drivers.
This Order is not intended to, and does not, create any rights or benefits, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, against the State of California, its agencies, departments, entities, officers, employees, or any other person.
I FURTHER DIRECT that as soon as hereafter possible, this Order be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State and that widespread publicity and notice be given to this Order.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of California to be affixed this 26th day of January, 2018.
California’s climate leadership
Governor Brown continues to build strong coalitions of partners committed to curbing carbon pollution in both the United States through the U.S. Climate Alliance and around the globe with the Under2 Coalition.
The governor also joined Michael Bloomberg to launch America's Pledge on climate change to help compile and quantify the actions of America's businesses and non-federal jurisdictions to drive down their emissions consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
This September, the state of California will convene the world's climate leaders in San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit, where representatives from subnational governments, businesses, investors and civil society will gather with the direct goal of supporting the Paris Agreement.
Last year, the governor – serving as special advisor for states and regions – rallied city, state and regional leaders from around the world at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 23) in Bonn, Germany. Gov. Brown also traveled to China to build closer climate ties with President Xi Jinping, Russia to call for deeper trans-pacific collaboration on climate at the Eastern Economic Forum, Canada to officially link California's carbon market with Quebec and Ontario and the Vatican to deliver keynote remarks at a climate symposium hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
In recent years, Gov. Brown has signed landmark legislation that extends and improves the state's world-leading cap-and-trade program and establishes a groundbreaking program to measure and combat air pollution at the neighborhood level, as well as legislation establishing the most ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in North America; setting the nation's toughest restrictions on destructive super pollutants; directing cap-and-trade funds to greenhouse gas reducing programs which benefit disadvantaged communities, support clean transportation and protect natural ecosystems; and requiring the state to generate half of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and double the rate of energy efficiency savings in buildings.
The governor also detailed the new plan for investing $1.25 billion in cap-and-trade auction proceeds to reduce carbon pollution and improve public health and the environment.
“This executive order aims to curb carbon pollution from cars and trucks and boost the number of zero-emission vehicles driven in California,” said Gov. Brown. “In addition, the cap-and-trade investments will, in varying degrees, reduce California’s carbon footprint and improve the quality of life for all.”
Zero-emission vehicle executive order
California is taking action to dramatically reduce carbon emissions from transportation – a sector that accounts for 50 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and 80 percent of smog-forming pollutants.
To continue to meet California’s climate goals and clean air standards, California must go even further to accelerate the market for zero-emission vehicles.
Friday’s executive order implements the governor’s call for a new target of 5 million ZEVs in California by 2030, announced in his State of the State address yesterday, and will help significantly expand vehicle charging infrastructure.
The administration is also proposing a new eight-year initiative to continue the state’s clean vehicle rebates and spur more infrastructure investments. This $2.5 billion initiative will help bring 250,000 vehicle charging stations and 200 hydrogen fueling stations to California by 2025.
Friday’s action builds on past efforts to boost zero-emission vehicles, including: legislation signed last year and in 2014 and 2013; adopting the 2016 Zero-Emission Vehicle Plan and the Advanced Clean Cars program; hosting a Zero-Emission Vehicle Summit; launching a multi-state ZEV Action Plan; co-founding the International ZEV Alliance; and issuing Executive Order B-16-12 in 2012 to help bring 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles to California by 2025.
In addition to Friday’s executive order, the governor also released the 2018 plan for California’s Climate Investments – a statewide initiative that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment–particularly in disadvantaged communities.
California Climate Investments projects include affordable housing, renewable energy, public transportation, zero-emission vehicles, environmental restoration, more sustainable agriculture and recycling, among other projects. At least 35 percent of these investments are made in disadvantaged and low-income communities.
The $1.25 billion climate investment plan can be found at http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2018-19/pdf/BudgetSummary/ClimateChange.pdf .
The full text of the executive order is below:
EXECUTIVE ORDER B-48-18
WHEREAS California is the largest market in the United States for zero-emission vehicles and approximately half of all zero-emission vehicles in the nation are sold in this state; and
WHEREAS California increased the number of zero-emission vehicles in the state by 1300 percent in six years – growing from 25,000 in 2012 to more than 350,000 today – and zero-emission vehicles now account for approximately 5 percent of all new car sales in California; and
WHEREAS the transportation sector still emits 50 percent of California’s total greenhouse gas emissions and 80 percent of the smog-forming oxides of nitrogen; and
WHEREAS California’s 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan – which charts the path for meeting the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and air quality goals – calls for major increases in zero-emission vehicles on the roads; and
WHEREAS Executive Order B-16-12 called for 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2025; and
WHEREAS California’s eight-year, $2.5 billion investment plan will help achieve the requirements of Executive Order B-16-12 by 2025 by funding more zero-emission infrastructure and continuing vehicle rebates for consumers; and
WHEREAS California can exceed its existing 2025 zero-emission vehicle goals by increasing the availability of charging and refueling stations and other zero-emission vehicle infrastructure; and
WHEREAS further boosting California’s zero-emission vehicle market will strengthen the economy, improve air quality and public health, lower fuel costs for drivers and reduce the state’s dependence on fossil fuels; and
WHEREAS California must continue to attract and encourage significant investments in zero-emission vehicles and infrastructure from utilities, car manufacturers and vehicle charging and re-fueling companies.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Edmund G. Brown Jr., Governor of the State of California, do hereby issue the following orders to become effective immediately:
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that all State entities work with the private sector and all appropriate levels of government to put at least 5 million zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2030.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all State entities work with the private sector and all appropriate levels of government to spur the construction and installation of 200 hydrogen fueling stations and 250,000 zero-emission vehicle chargers, including 10,000 direct current fast chargers, by 2025.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all State entities continue to partner with regional and local governments to streamline zero-emission vehicle infrastructure installation processes wherever possible. As part of this effort, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development shall publish a Plug-in Charging Station Development Guidebook and update the 2015 Hydrogen Station Permitting Guidebook.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all State entities, in carrying out programs under their authorities, shall collaborate with stakeholders to implement this order, including but not limited to taking the following actions:
– Update the 2016 Zero-Emission Vehicle Action plan to help expand private investment in zero-emission vehicle infrastructure, particularly in low income and disadvantaged communities.
– Recommend actions that boost zero-emission vehicle infrastructure to strengthen the economy and create jobs in the State of California.
– Recommend ways to expand zero-emission vehicle infrastructure through the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program.
– Support and recommend policies and actions that make it easier for people to install electric vehicle chargers in their homes and businesses.
– Ensure electric vehicle charging and hydrogen fueling are affordable and more accessible to all drivers.
This Order is not intended to, and does not, create any rights or benefits, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, against the State of California, its agencies, departments, entities, officers, employees, or any other person.
I FURTHER DIRECT that as soon as hereafter possible, this Order be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State and that widespread publicity and notice be given to this Order.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of California to be affixed this 26th day of January, 2018.
California’s climate leadership
Governor Brown continues to build strong coalitions of partners committed to curbing carbon pollution in both the United States through the U.S. Climate Alliance and around the globe with the Under2 Coalition.
The governor also joined Michael Bloomberg to launch America's Pledge on climate change to help compile and quantify the actions of America's businesses and non-federal jurisdictions to drive down their emissions consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
This September, the state of California will convene the world's climate leaders in San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit, where representatives from subnational governments, businesses, investors and civil society will gather with the direct goal of supporting the Paris Agreement.
Last year, the governor – serving as special advisor for states and regions – rallied city, state and regional leaders from around the world at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 23) in Bonn, Germany. Gov. Brown also traveled to China to build closer climate ties with President Xi Jinping, Russia to call for deeper trans-pacific collaboration on climate at the Eastern Economic Forum, Canada to officially link California's carbon market with Quebec and Ontario and the Vatican to deliver keynote remarks at a climate symposium hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
In recent years, Gov. Brown has signed landmark legislation that extends and improves the state's world-leading cap-and-trade program and establishes a groundbreaking program to measure and combat air pollution at the neighborhood level, as well as legislation establishing the most ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in North America; setting the nation's toughest restrictions on destructive super pollutants; directing cap-and-trade funds to greenhouse gas reducing programs which benefit disadvantaged communities, support clean transportation and protect natural ecosystems; and requiring the state to generate half of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and double the rate of energy efficiency savings in buildings.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The county of Lake has hired several new key Public Health and Environmental Health staffers in the wake of retirements that took place at the end of 2017.
Health Services Director Denise Pomeroy said the hires include the new health officer, deputy health officer, Public Health nursing director and Environmental Health director.
The county’s new health officer is Dr. Sara Goldgraben, M.D., Pomeroy said.
The Board of Supervisors confirmed Goldgraben’s appointment at its Tuesday meeting.
Goldgraben succeeds Dr. Karen Tait, whose retirement took place at the end of last year, as Lake County News has reported.
Pomeroy said Dr. Goldgraben is board-certified in preventive medicine and public health, with a master’s degree in public health and business administration as well as a bachelor’s degree in engineering and biomedical engineering. She holds medical licensure in both New York and California, and moved to Lake County from Southern California.
Joining the county in the role of deputy health officer Dr. Erin Gustafson, M.D.
Pomeroy said Gustafson is board-certified in preventive medicine, and has a master’s in public health as well as a bachelor’s in biochemistry. She holds medical licensure in California, New York and South Carolina, and relocated to Lake County from New York.
Gustafson’s appointment also was confirmed by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
Pomeroy said the new Public Health nursing director is Carolyn Holladay.
Holladay has been a member of the Health Department since April 2013 and has worked in many different programs, including the foster children’s program, Children Health and Disability Program, immunization program and Maternal Child Health, Pomeroy said.
Pomeroy said Holladay was instrumental in supporting the medical shelters during the recent fires and has been a strong advocate of moving the Public Health Division into electronic records management.
Holladay holds an associate’s degree in liberal arts and Spanish, a Bachelor’s degree in nursing/psychology, is a licensed Registered Nurse and a Public Health Nurse, Pomeroy said.
Taking over as the new Environmental Health director is Jasjit “Jesse” Kang.
Kang comes to Lake County from Colusa County, and has more than 19 years of management and experience in the environmental health field, Pomeroy said.
Pomeroy said Kang holds a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from California State University, Sacramento and is certified as a Registered Environmental Health Specialist in California.
Kang succeeds longtime Environmental Health Director Ray Ruminski, who retired in December.
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Health Services Director Denise Pomeroy said the hires include the new health officer, deputy health officer, Public Health nursing director and Environmental Health director.
The county’s new health officer is Dr. Sara Goldgraben, M.D., Pomeroy said.
The Board of Supervisors confirmed Goldgraben’s appointment at its Tuesday meeting.
Goldgraben succeeds Dr. Karen Tait, whose retirement took place at the end of last year, as Lake County News has reported.
Pomeroy said Dr. Goldgraben is board-certified in preventive medicine and public health, with a master’s degree in public health and business administration as well as a bachelor’s degree in engineering and biomedical engineering. She holds medical licensure in both New York and California, and moved to Lake County from Southern California.
Joining the county in the role of deputy health officer Dr. Erin Gustafson, M.D.
Pomeroy said Gustafson is board-certified in preventive medicine, and has a master’s in public health as well as a bachelor’s in biochemistry. She holds medical licensure in California, New York and South Carolina, and relocated to Lake County from New York.
Gustafson’s appointment also was confirmed by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
Pomeroy said the new Public Health nursing director is Carolyn Holladay.
Holladay has been a member of the Health Department since April 2013 and has worked in many different programs, including the foster children’s program, Children Health and Disability Program, immunization program and Maternal Child Health, Pomeroy said.
Pomeroy said Holladay was instrumental in supporting the medical shelters during the recent fires and has been a strong advocate of moving the Public Health Division into electronic records management.
Holladay holds an associate’s degree in liberal arts and Spanish, a Bachelor’s degree in nursing/psychology, is a licensed Registered Nurse and a Public Health Nurse, Pomeroy said.
Taking over as the new Environmental Health director is Jasjit “Jesse” Kang.
Kang comes to Lake County from Colusa County, and has more than 19 years of management and experience in the environmental health field, Pomeroy said.
Pomeroy said Kang holds a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from California State University, Sacramento and is certified as a Registered Environmental Health Specialist in California.
Kang succeeds longtime Environmental Health Director Ray Ruminski, who retired in December.
Email Elizabeth Larson at