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California's universal vote-by-mail system is facing new headwinds from allies of President Donald Trump.  As KQED politics correspondent Guy Marzorati reports, voting rights advocates are worried conservatives at the local AND federal level are undermining the public's confidence in elections.

California's universal vote-by-mail system is facing new headwinds from allies of President Donald Trump. &nbsp;As KQED politics correspondent Guy Marzorati reports, voting rights advocates are worried conservatives at the local AND federal level are undermining the public's confidence in elections.

California's Vote-By-Mail System Faces Undermining by President Trump Allies

We may often think of “carbon dioxide” as a waste product that contributes to climate change… and so it is – but CO2 is ALSO an industrial commodity, used to produce concrete and fertilizer and for carbonating beverages like BEER. In the East Bay, a craft brewery … instead of buying carbon dioxide is pulling it directly from the air onsite. KQED science reporter Danielle Venton has more. 

We may often think of &ldquo;carbon dioxide&rdquo; as a waste product that contributes to climate change&hellip; and so it is &ndash; but CO2 is ALSO an industrial commodity, used to produce concrete and fertilizer and for carbonating beverages like BEER. In the East Bay, a craft brewery &hellip; instead of buying carbon dioxide is pulling it directly from the air onsite. KQED science reporter Danielle Venton has more.&nbsp;

East Bay Brewery Uses Carbon Capture to Carbonate Beer 

It will soon be a month since the start of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. In response to U. S. Military action, the Iranian regime has restricted which trade ships can pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical passageway not only for oil moving from the Middle East to North America, but also for fertilizer, the fertilizer American farmers need to start growing crops. The agricultural industry has started to ring the alarm bells about the potential impacts the crisis at Hormuz could have on food prices. But California farms are quite unique from the rest of the country. So what happens here could be different from what we see in the headlines.

It will soon be a month since the start of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. In response to U. S. Military action, the Iranian regime has restricted which trade ships can pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical passageway not only for oil moving from the Middle East to North America, but also for fertilizer, the fertilizer American farmers need to start growing crops. The agricultural industry has started to ring the alarm bells about the potential impacts the crisis at Hormuz could have on food prices. But California farms are quite unique from the rest of the country. So what happens here could be different from what we see in the headlines.

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