Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly promised “no Draconian moves” while attempting to define so-called sanctuary cities and praised law enforcement officials during a tour of the San Ysidro port of entry Friday. Kelly toured the security operations at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing, the busiest land border crossing in the world, where he also spoke with California state and federal law enforcement agencies about improving border security.
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Get nuclear waste off beach, Issa says
Wood squares mark the spots where containers of spent fuel will be incased in concrete at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Northern San Diego County, California in this file photo from August 25, 2016. The numbered cement walls in the foreground are also spent fuel.
Scientists Rebuke California Coastal Commission Over Desalination
The California Coastal Commission’s stated concern that a proposed Huntington Beach desalination plant’s intake pipes pose a threat to small and microscopic plankton has been rebutted in a letter from three prominent California marine biologists. Anthony Koslow, Eric Miller and John McGowan-marine biologists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla-were responding to comments made at a Dec. 1 panel about ocean desalination in Ventura County by Tom Luster, the agency’s lead staffer on the desalination issue.