Sentences with phrase «pacific coast states»

«The Pacific Coast states and province are working together to build a thriving economy, while reducing harmful carbon pollution,» said Matt Rodriquez, who attended the meeting on behalf of California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. «Through our shared culture of innovation, we view the challenge of climate change as an opportunity to develop new markets, attract investment and create jobs in the growing clean economy.

In the Pacific Coast states, the wide areas filled with small towns, farms, and forests are supplemented by a few big port cities which have evolved into world centres for the media and technology industries.

Not exact matches

The LNG Canada and Kitimat LNG projects, as well as a fourth plant proposed for the northern B.C. coast by Malaysian state energy company Petronas and Calgary - based Progress Energy, will likely have to wait for new pipelines to be built directly from the shale gas fields of northeastern B.C. Kitimat LNG's owners are separately developing the Pacific Trails pipeline to their terminal.

Violence is also on the rise in neighboring Chihuahua state, on a key drug route to the United States, and in Guerrero — the state that includes the Acapulco resort — on the southern Pacific coast.

The city, which is linked by highway to the country's interior, is a vital hub for traffickers moving up and down Mexico's Pacific coast and links them to the state's expansive opium and marijuana cultivation areas.

The idyllic Pacific coast town of Acapulco in Mexico's Guerrero state once welcomed Hollywood stars and honeymooners, but the city has suffered a wave of bloody violence in recent years, as cartels and criminal groups battle for control.

The three governments should also commit to a growing percentage of electric vehicles in their own fleets, and support states and provinces that make similar commitments — as U.S. states and British Columbia have already done via the Pacific Coast Collaborative.

Union Pacific's rail network spans 23 states, 32,000 miles, and connects to all major seaports on the West Coast and the major seaports along the Gulf of Mexico West of the Mississippi River Delta.

The Staff Notice goes on to confirm that Canada, through the seminal Pacific Coast Coin Exchange v. Ontario Securities Commission decision, has adopted the United States» Howey Test in determining whether a particular investment constitutes an investment contract and therefore a security.

While New England, the Pacific Coast and northern Middle Atlantic states may support full - fledged marriage, comparisons of polling from a decade past to today reveals significant growth in support for same sex marriages and civil unions in those regions.

It is doubtless true that the sea of faith never had a high tide along the upper Pacific coast, but the melancholy roar of its receding tide - to use Matthew Arnold's image - has been heard in many other states.

Paul Shepard once took a very different tack, proposing, somewhat playfully, that in the United States the entire population be moved to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, housed in arcologies, and fed by high tech means from algae.

I was born, raised, and educated in California, but ever since moving to New York, I've struggled to articulate precisely what makes the Pacific coast in general and my home state in particular so different from the rest of the nation.

Located midway between the Pacific Coast and California's Inland Valleys in the state's coastal mountain range, Lake County's 8,700 acres (3,520 hectares) of vineyards are 1,370 - 2,600 feet (418 - 792 meters) above sea level.

Mexico's Pacific Coast is renowned for its beaches, jungle settings and for its national beverage, Tequila, which by law can be produced only in the state of Jalisco.

While waiting to be noticed, they are spending the fall in the brand - new Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA) along with another former small college, University of the Pacific, previous independent San Jose State and four other schools.

Two Encouraging Signs: Florida Gulf Coast, La Salle, New Mexico State, Valparaiso, Davidson, Boise State No Encouraging Signs: Montana, Albany, James Madison, Pacific

Located in western Mexico, the Pacific coast region stretches across 1,700 kilometers (1,054 miles) of beaches, mountains and valleys, spanning from the state of Sinaloa to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca.

Ixtapa - Zihuatanejo is one of Mexico's most beautiful beach destinations, located on the Pacific coast, in the state of Guerrero, just over 150 miles North of Acapulco.

Our small taste of the Golden State has inspired a future family road trip; we definitely want to explore San Francisco and the nearby areas of Sunnyvale, CA, and then take that legendary drive down the Pacific Coast Highway.

Before starting their careers in the Pacific Northwest, both she and her husband came to the United States as graduate students from India to East Coast universities.

Besides, as I pointed out in chapter two, Britain's post-war settlement is best seen as a local variation on a theme that sounded right across the western world, from the Pacific coasts of Canada and the United States to the Baltic and the Adriatic.

On the basis of these reports the United States Hydrographic Office prepares a daily memorandum which is sent to sixteen branch Hydrographic Offices along the Atlantic Coast, the Great Lakes, the Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico.

The new study covers the entire U.S. West, from the High Plains states to the Pacific coast, and provides the first detailed look at how groundwater recharge may change as the climate changes, said senior author Thomas Meixner, UA professor and associate department head of hydrology and atmospheric sciences.

Black - legged ticks live in the northeastern, mid-Atlantic and north - central United States, and the western black - legged tick resides along the Pacific coast.

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The West Coast can rely on a steady stream of dust particles from Africa and Asia — it takes between seven and 10 days for the dust to cross the Pacific Ocean, Prather added, and dust can circumnavigate the globe in a matter of weeks — but what the western United States has been missing during this drought is the other main part of the equation: clouds that the dust can seed.

At 46, she had to take medical leave from her job at a bank in the city of Aberdeen on the Pacific coast of Washington state.

They discovered that the giant wave removed three to five times more sand than any historical El Niño storm across the Pacific Coast of the United States.

Starting next year a global project called Neptune, for North East Pacific Time - series Undersea Networked Experiments, will lay wire - and - fiber - optic cable over a 200,000 - square - mile region of the seismically active Juan de Fuca tectonic plate off the northwest coast of the United States.

In addition to California, Florida, New York State and New England, these include locations in the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, Southeast, Gulf Coast and Pennsylvania.

Equipped with scuba - diving gear off the coast of Motobu Peninsula in Okinawa, Japan, scientists from the United States and Japan carried parts of a machine that is one of the first to serve as an underwater observatory that monitors temperature, salinity, and other chemical, physical and biological data in the Pacific Ocean.

By late Monday, the fire was mainly burning on Big Sur's Pfeiffer Ridge on the west side of State Route 1, the highway that runs north and south along the Pacific Coast in California.

Following that, entrants will be evaluated in lab trials and, ultimately, tested for a month in Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific on the Washington State coast.

The Pacific Coast region includes: the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada and Utah; Alaska; the Province of British Columbia; Mexico, excepting the states of Sonora and Chihuahua; the Hawaiian Islands; the Philippine Islands; and other islands of the Pacific Ocean.

Stemmed points — which have been found up and down the Pacific coast and across the western United States — and the methods associated with making them appear to be coalescing into «an ancient coastal tradition,» says Quentin Mackie, an archaeologist at the University of Victoria in Canada.

For one thing, the Pacific off the California coast is still very warm, which tends to keep temperatures over the state warm as well.

The North Bay Fires affected air quality in the Central Valley and satellite images show it traveled more than 500 miles over the Pacific, reaching as far south as Mexico.19 In 2015, smoke from wildfires in central Canada resulted in multiple days of exceedances of EPA standards in Maryland.20 In 2002, wildfire smoke from fires in Quebec impacted populations all along the East Coast of the United States, and a nearly 50 percent increase in hospital admissions for respiratory diagnoses for the elderly was associated with the smoke plume and concurrent PM2.5 in counties in states between New York and Washington,States, and a nearly 50 percent increase in hospital admissions for respiratory diagnoses for the elderly was associated with the smoke plume and concurrent PM2.5 in counties in states between New York and Washington,states between New York and Washington, DC.21

Developing more accurate regional forecasts of sea level rise will therefore have far - reaching benefits for the more than 30 percent of Americans who currently reside along the Pacific, Atlantic or Gulf Coasts of the contiguous United States.

This phenomenon can lead to a decreased catch of anchovies off the South American coast, flooding in Peru, increased rainfall across the southern part of the United States, and droughts in the southwestern Pacific.

«This was an effort to try and refine our understanding of the causes, or trends and variations, in the climate of the Eastern Pacific and West Coast states,» said Nate Mantua, now a NOAA fisheries scientist, the other author of the newly published paper.

Results from the evaluation of 14 estuaries along the Pacific coast of the United States will help to inform policy on conservation of wetlands.

Archaeologist Todd Braje of San Diego State University, who recently co-authored a paper published in Science on Native Americans, told Seeker that «the first Americans likely arrived along the Pacific Coast — not crossing the open Pacific but migrating along the Pacific Rim in boats in a step-wise fashion.»

He states that the levels of radiation in the US Pacific coast are rather insignificant when compared to other background sources of radiation that already exist in the US, or compared to our exposure flying on an airplane.

Meanwhile, Dave takes a liking to Kim's propagandist (Diana Bang), who confesses she's stretched the truth somewhat regarding the state of the nation, which suddenly finds itself in possession of nuclear missiles that could reach the United States» Pacific Coast.

The Long Beach Street Circuit winds its way through 1.96 miles of the Southern Californian city of Long Beach, which sits right on the Pacific Coast of the United States.

Chrysler kicks off the annual Woodward Dream Cruise today, making a huge splash with the introduction of the new 2007 Chrysler PT Street Cruiser Pacific Coast Highway Edition - a special - edition PT Cruiser dedicated to one of the most picturesque driving routes in the United States, the Pacific Coast Highway.

Set in the fictional town of Port Bonita, on Washington State's rugged Pacific coast, West of Here is propelled by a story that both re-creates and celebrates the American experience - it is storytelling on the grandest scale.

Spanning two thousand miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific coast, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America.

Study in the heart of Oregon at Oregon State University, situated 90 miles south of Portland and an hour from the Cascades of the Pacific Coast.