Kate Galbraith
@KateGalbraith
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Climate editor, @sfchronicle. Alum of @TexasTribune, @CALmatters, @nytimes, @TheEconomist. Co-author, The Great Texas Wind Rush.
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2010
RT @clairehao_: More than $400 million in EPA "Solar for All" funding for Harris County and other Texas-based groups remains frozen. This…
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RT @meganfanmunce: Breaking: For the first time since 1994, the California FAIR Plan will charge all private insurers to help cover its los…
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Breaking, big news: California's FAIR Plan will be out of money by March due to LA fires. So virtually all California homeowners will get charged to keep it afloat @meganfanmunce
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Breaking: Newsom wants California to quickly implement major, controversial "zone zero" rules -- homes in the riskiest fire areas must a 5-foot buffer zone clear of vegetation @sfchronicle
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Why was there a three-hour gap between the start of the refinery fire Saturday and when shelter-in-place sirens went off? @juliejohnson
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The future of the tiny, endangered Delta smelt -- valued by environmentalists, hated by conservatives -- looks grim after the Trump administration pulls funding from a lab for saving them @kurtisalexander
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RT @demianbulwa: AMAZING! Thank you @USCAnnenberg and the judges. Congrats to @KateyRusch @SmithCaseyA @DavidBarstow and @UCBerkeleyIRP,…
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Big news: State Farm in California is warning of a 'dire situation' financially in the wake of the L.A. wildfires Scoop from @meganfanmunce #insurance
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Just watched the press conference about the #Martinez refinery fire. Asked whether the fire would last hours or days, officials said they had no estimate. ???
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In Sudan, U.S. aid workers had a choice: "Defy President Donald Trump’s order to immediately stop their operations or let up to 100 babies and toddlers die. They chose the children."
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Breaking: Allstate to hike condo rates 30% in California, following the approval of a rate increase that the company requested a year ago @meganfanmunce
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Breaking: The airport that's squarely along the approach to SFO will lose all its air traffic controllers on Saturday after an FAA contract change
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RT @joegarofoli: Hours of calls. Delayed payouts. What FAIR Plan coverage is like for some Californians whose homes have burned https://t.…
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RT @mgafni: Jesse Gros hiked through the burn scar of the Jan. 1 fire in Pacific Palisades (possibly started by fireworks) on Jan. 5 & took…
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RT @kylegriffin1: Trump has signed an executive order allowing for presidential appointees, at the request of the White House Counsel, to b…
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Gavin Newsom's unusually terse response to Trump's climate moves
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RT @kylegriffin1: Trump has suspended refugee admissions programs. As a result: Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to res…
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Groundbreaking California insurance coverage from @sfchronicle continues. Here, an exclusive interview with Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara - the first I've seen since the LA fires.
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State Farm is California's largest home insurer. Unusually, it also signaled insolvency concerns even before the fires. Great reporting from @meganfanmunce on the added challenges going forward and what it could portend for the whole state
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