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  2. List of Superfund sites in California - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...

  3. California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery

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    Specifically, the CIWMB provided grants and loans that helped California's recycling industry; used incentive grants and loans to help spur the private sector into developing new markets for recycled materials; cleaned up solid waste disposal sites; and cleared illegal waste tire disposal sites. The CIWMB also regulated California landfills ...

  4. Pacific Coast Waste and Recycling - Wikipedia

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    It is one of the few African-American owned and operated waste and recycling company in California and the United States. [citation needed] In addition to providing waste collection service to businesses throughout Los Angeles, the company also provides municipal waste collection and recycling services for the city of Compton, CA. In 2013, PCW ...

  5. Coastal California - Wikipedia

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    Coastal California is heavily influenced by east–west distances to the dominant cold California Current as well as microclimates.Due to hills and coast ranges having strong meteorological effects, summer and winter temperatures (other than occasional heat waves) are heavily moderated by ocean currents and fog with strong seasonal lags compared to interior valleys as little as 10 mi (16 km) away.

  6. File:Map of California highlighting Los Angeles County.svg

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    More than 100 pages use this file. The following list shows the first 100 pages that use this file only. A full list is available.. Acton, California; Agoura Hills, California

  7. History of the mapping of California - Wikipedia

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    The State Mining Bureau was renamed the Division of Mines and Geology in 1862. Its pseudonym, the California Geologic Survey, was established in January 2002. [15] In 1869, George Davidson, an assistant coast surveyor, compiled the book Pacific Coast: Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. The 262-page volume is complete ...

  8. Lafayette, California - Wikipedia

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    Finally on March 31, 1932, the name of the post office was officially changed to Lafayette, which has remained unchanged to this day. Lafayette was the tenth post office established in Contra Costa County. (See Salley, History of California Post Offices). [17] In the early 1860s, Lafayette was briefly the site of a station for the Pony Express ...

  9. File:California blank map.svg - Wikipedia

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