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High-Speed Rail Authority to Receive Record $3.1 Billion From Biden Administration

High-Speed Rail Authority to Receive Record $3.1 Billion From Biden AdministrationSACRAMENTO, Calif. – In the single strongest show of federal support to date, the US Department of Transportation has awarded the California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) nearly $3.1 billion in grant funding for continued progress on the country’s first electrified 220-mph high-speed rail system.  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOWIn a show of support for the state’s vision, the Biden-Harris Administration is awarding the

Stanford Study Details State Road to Net-Zero Emissions

alifornia has adopted the most ambitious climate goals in the nation, if not globally, requiring, most notably, that the state achieve carbon neutrality economy-wide by 2045. Because compliance is decades away, the actual mechanisms to achieve these long-term goals have not been specified in detail. Until now. Scholars at the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage and Stanford Carbon Removal Initiative recently released a landmark study providing an independent assessment of decarbonization options and

What Employers Should Know About New Workplace Violence Rule

California’s new workplace violence standard, SB 553 (Cortese; D-San Jose). Signed this year by Governor Gavin Newsom, SB 553 creates workplace violence requirements that include training and logging of workplace violence incidents. Effective July 1, 2024, California employers will need to create, maintain and implement a written workplace violence prevention plan that includes 13 different requirements, Saad explains. These requirements include identifying the personnel who will be responsible for

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