California's government stands at a crossroads - and the clock is ticking. The Newsom administration has ordered most state employees to return to the office four days per week on July 1, which doubles the current two-day requirement. But does it make sense to end the telework system that saves taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually, cuts emissions and congestion and attracts the skilled workforce our state desperately needs?
The study, published on Thursday in Nature Communications and led by scientists at the University of California, warns that if heat-trapping pollution continues unabated, rising seas will flood a wide range of hazardous facilities including those handling sewage, toxic waste, oil and gas, as well as other industrial pollutants. The analysis relies on projections of a 1%-annual-chance flood commonly called a 100-year flood under two emissions scenarios: a high-emissions scenario and a lower-emissions scenario.