SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 24 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2024: * * * The first-of-its-kind lawsuit seeks to hold one of the largest petrochemical companies in the world accountable for misleading the public on plastic's recyclability and polluting California's environment and communities * * * California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced the filing of a lawsuit against ExxonMobil for allegedly engaging in a decades-  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 24 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Sept. 23, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom signed bipartisan legislation today to impose stricter penalties, increase accountability, and strengthen law enforcement's ability to combat sideshows and street takeovers. These measures mark a step forward in improving road safety across California by addressing the rise of illegal street activities that endanger the safety of drivers, pedestrians, a  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 24 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Sept. 23, 2024: Building on his calls for school districts to restrict the use of smartphones on school campuses, Governor Gavin Newsom today signed Assembly Bill 3216, the Phone-Free School Act, to require every school district, charter school and county office of education to adopt a policy limiting or prohibiting the use of smartphones by July 1, 2026. Authored by Assemblymembers Josh Ho  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 24 -- The California Public Utilities Commission issued the following decision approving application (Agenda ID No. 22898) on Sept. 23, 2024: * * * BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA In the Matter of the Application of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority for an Order Authorizing the Construction of a One-track At-grade Pedestrian Crossing from Willowbrook Avenue East to the Metro A Line Platform at the W  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 24 -- The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office issued the following news release on Sept. 23, 2024: The California Community Colleges Board of Governors voted today to support two statewide ballot measures that, if passed by voters in the Nov. 5 election, would provide bond funding for much needed improvements to educational facilities statewide and would invest in climate resiliency public works projects. Proposition 2, the Kindergarten through Grade  more

SAN DIEGO, California, Sept. 24 (TNSres) -- San Diego State University issued the following news: * * * SDSU psychology student Maria Christina Huerta-Avila is being recognized with an award that will help propel her study of the brain. * * * By Jeff Ristine Over years of watching her older brother cope with the debilitating effects of a ruptured brain aneurysm and subsequent stroke, Maria Christina Huerta-Avila became more and more interested in the underlying mysteries and subtle changes   more

SAN DIEGO, California, Sept. 24 (TNSres) -- San Diego State University issued the following news: * * * Dean Eugene Olevsky received an international award for his contributions to the field of sintering. * * * By Jeff Ristine The International Institute for the Science of Sintering this month awarded San Diego State University College of Engineering Dean Eugene Olevsky its Frenkel Prize for extraordinary contributions to the materials-engineering field. Olevsky and a Korean researcher who  more

ENCINO, California, Sept. 24 -- Marcus and Millichap issued the following news release: DERBY, Kan., Sept. 23, 2024 - Marcus & Millichap (NYSE: MMI), a leading commercial real estate brokerage firm specializing in investment sales, financing, research and advisory services, announced today the sale of Spring Creek Center, a 31,557-square-foot retail strip property located in Derby, Kansas. The property sold for $5.3 million. "We sourced an all-cash private investor from the East Coast who off  more

PASADENA, California, Sept. 23 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Details of combustion--the chemical reactions that take place when, for example, a flame is lit--are fleeting and, therefore, difficult to study. But scientists would like to better understand the complex processes that occur in those billionths of seconds, not only to make engines more efficient but also to shed light on how candle flames, cars, and airplanes produce gases and particles that are  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 24 -- Paul Hastings, a law firm, issued the following news: DALLAS - Further strengthening its market-leading financial restructuring practice and continuing its strategic expansion in Texas, Paul Hastings LLP has added restructuring lawyer Charles Persons as a partner in Dallas. The firm has more than tripled its Texas headcount in the last year and expects to have more than 100 lawyers in the Lone Star State by Q1 2025, up from 25. Persons represents debtors a  more

CLAREMONT, California, Sept. 24 -- Pitzer College issued the following news: * * * For the fall lecture series "Talking Trash," Pitzer's Munroe Center for Social Inquiry invites Adam M. Romero to discuss how industrial waste affects agriculture. * * * Everyone wants to get rid of toxic waste, right? Wrong. For Adam M. Romero, there's one sector that needs toxic waste to survive: the agricultural industry. "Agriculture needs toxicity to function," said Romero, an associate professor of sc  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 23 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: The Virginia Tech College of Science's J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series will host a talk on Thursday, Sept. 26, by Kimberly Prather, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and distinguished professor at the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Prather, of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has researched how water pollutants previously believed to remain in   more

CLAREMONT, California, Sept. 24 -- Pomona College issued the following news: Pomona College has received a $2.5 million gift to support interdisciplinary global education programs and engaged learning opportunities for students from The H. Russell Smith Foundation, Stewart R. Smith '68, P'00 '09, Robin A. Ferracone, and MacKenzie C. Teymouri '09. Pomona alumnus Stewart Smith is chair emeritus of Pomona's Board of Trustees and alumna MacKenzie Teymouri, his daughter, is a current trustee of the   more

SONOMA, California, Sept. 24 -- Sonoma State University issued the following news: Sonoma State student Bryce Iversen has been selected to receive one of the 2024 California State University Trustees' Awards for Outstanding Achievement. Each of the CSU's 23 campuses nominate a student for the award, which recognizes students who demonstrate superior academic performance, personal accomplishments, community service, and financial need. Iversen, who received the CSU Trustee Emerita Claudia H. Ha  more

IRVINE, California, Sept. 24 -- The University of California Irvine campus issued the following news release: * * * New NSF-funded initiative emphasizes technological solutions to health disparities * * * Recent medical and biotechnology advances have helped people suffering from cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, but new treatments have not been distributed evenly or equitably throughout society, according to researchers at the University of California,  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, Sept. 24 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: By Emily Cerf When his professor first brought up an opportunity to learn about open source programming at UC Santa Cruz, Silas Morgan -- like most undergraduate students -- didn't know much about open source. Two years as a participant and peer mentor at Contributor Catalyst, a UCSC-run program for students from HBCUs to learn about open source, have changed that. "Most schools don't  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, Sept. 24 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: By Scott Hernandez-Jason To support students, strengthen the campus climate, and combat antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of hate, UC Santa Cruz will expand mental health resources, promote community-building events, offer new educational programming and professional development opportunities, and create new outlets for students to share their perspectives on improving campus  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 24 -- The University of California at Los Angeles School of Law issued the following news: The pretrial phase of any criminal case is critical. But the laws, rules, procedures and norms involved in this pivotal moment are not often clear or consistent, which presents challenges for judges. Aiming to synthesize and clarify the dozens of studies that elucidate various aspects of the pretrial process, UCLA School of Law's Criminal Justice Program produced a pretrial   more