By Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles TimesJune 8, 2013, 7:13 p.m. Southern California Edison built San Onofre’s two nuclear reactors in about nine years, but tearing them down will be a technically complex, multibillion-dollar job completed over decades. It is likely that Edison first will mothball the plant, which under federal rules could keep its [...]
By Ann McFeatters As the nation grapples with one costly natural disaster after another, Washington’s politicians systematically have been cutting funds for disaster preparedness. Even as the nation laments the deaths of children in Oklahoma’s tornado alley, where two schools hit in devastated Moore could not afford safe rooms at a per-room cost of [...]
NOTE: COPE Preparedness has been involved with the LACCDR project since it’s inception. In fact the COPE Preparedness Map Your Neighborhood (MYN) conducted in July of 2012 in Spanish in Wilmington, CA was partially funded by a mini grant from the LACCDR project. LOS ANGELES — In response to a directive from President Obama [...]
2 Alaska Volcanos on Alert as lava flows By Greg Botelho and Amanda Watts, CNN (CNN) — Lava flowed Tuesday from two Alaskan volcanoes, with authorities placing both on the second-highest alert levels because “sudden explosions … are possible with little or no warning.” The volcanoes are Pavlof and Cleveland, both in the [...]
Last year, an estimated 32.4 million people worldwide were forced from their homes due to natural disasters. Here, 10 countries that suffered some of the worst displacements, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council A Humanitarian Catastrophe By Andrew Katz Anupam Nath / APPeople use a raft made of banana plants to wade through flood [...]
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