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Governors Wind Energy Coalition Solar vs. wind: Federal study finds a winner Source: By Peter Behr, E&E News reporter • Posted: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 A new report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory finds that solar has gained ground on wind and natural gas in terms of projects seeking approval to connect to the grid. Oregon Department of Transportation/Flickr The competition between wind and solar power in the United States is breaking decisively in sol...

come forward. >> whoever knows anything about the people who did this to ia to please i encourage them to come forward. >> reporter: police tell ktvu that he was driving at close to 11:00 the night of june 12. police have used video surveillance to help piece together what happened and two suspects bumped his silver jeep cherokee. he stopped on market street. officers say there was some kind of altercation, and the suspects shot and killed the 23- year-old. >> its difficult to determin...

strike. >> reporter: police say the incident happened about two weeks ago. figueroa told bart police a man punched him in the chest at a pay gate. police arrested the man. but bart says surveillance footage shows there was a verbal argument but no punches were ever thrown. >> the station agent appears to have not been touched whatsoever. >> reporter: the union atu which represents bart train operators and station agents including george figueroa declined to comment directly on the a...

a panel of federal judges has ordered governor brown to release 10,000 inmates from the state prisons immediately. the 51 page ruling says state officials have, quote, directly defied this courts orders to bring the states prison population down to around 109,000 inmates. this is all part of a plan to improve inmates medical and mental care which is overwhelmed by the number of inmates in our prisons. the governor has until the end of this year to comply or the courts will do it for hi...

go up to $151,000, still $100,000 less than the district attorneys of alameda county or santa clara county make. all in all, not a big bump but even some of those who voted for the pay push appeared hesitant. >> can we afford it? >> well have to see. >> reporter: you have your doubts? >> i have always had my doubts. >> reporter: there werent so many doubts over at the capital especially among the 120 legislators who after seeing their pay repeatedly cut by 25% in recent years got a $5,...

interview. she just left the hospital now. ken, there were the suspects police believe were on the bus that they got off the bus and the shots were fired. they are looking for those three suspects and there are cameras on that bus so they will be going over that surveillance video. >> you know, juliette, we rip muni every chance we get for, you know, their on time record, for their maintenance problems. but it its such a good story to see muni driving doing the right thing and there ar...

as the markets open this morning: it was red across the board most of friday. the dow peeked into the positive just before the close. most energy stocks closing out last week in the tank. oil futures lost about 2% last week. hess corporation was one of the biggest losers. there will be another presidential walk along the new jersey shore today. as they did immediatly after superstorm sandy, governor christie will escort president obama on an inspection tour of the ravaged beaches to se...

0 added bouquets to the growing wall of flowers left by well wishers to honor rigby and also attended a memorial service at a nearby church. medical headlines and the growing outbreak of a mysterious virus in the middle east. 18 people died in saudi arabia alone from a respiratory infection similar to sars. as of last week, confirmed 44 infections and two dozen deaths worldwide. the world health organization wants to know how the virus spreads and how to stop it. sleep experts say you may be...

kelseyville. live pictures from sky 7 hd. at least one structure burned and others threatened by the fire. there are no no injuries. in napa, 20 acres burning there. a large trailer deis troyed. cal fire says full containment should be reached by the morning. they will go at it all night. firefighters getting the upper hand on what is called the yellow fire. it burned through a couple hundred acres in sonoma county just across the county line from calistoga. a pair of strike teams from...

im jon kelley. >> and im marla tellez. people living in one south bay neighborhood say mail theft is becoming a problem. but a postal inspector we talked to said it doesnt have to be. in san jose two people say their mail was stolen as recently as last week. the local post office confirms with us that complaints in this neighborhood are on the rise. the inspector officer we spoke to said preventing mail theft is as simple as preventing a bad habit. >> dont leave your mail overnight. pu...