The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has given preliminary approval to an ordinance allowing municipal identification cards to be issued to anyone living in the city, regardless of their legal status. Supporters said that the ordinance was intended to make life easier for the large number of illegal immigrants working in the city, many of whom cannot get access to services because they have no formal identification. NY Times 11/15/07
An arrest warrant has been issued for actress Hayden Panettiere in Japan as a result of her Save the Whales protest in the country. Panettiere was part of a group who tried to prevent the slaughter of a group of whales and dolphins by fisherman near Taiji in southwestern Japan. Panettiere said she did not know what repercussions the arrest warrant would bring, but said it would not put her off doing something similar again. New Zealand Herald 11/16/07
If cleanup crews followed to the letter every regulation after last week's San Francisco Bay oil spill, then California needs new regulations, said Assemblywoman Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, in a legislative hearing Thursday morning. Meanwhile, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday launched a full state investigation into the causes of the spill. A company contracted to perform oil spill cleanups, testified before a skeptical Hancock and the Assembly Natural Resources Committee that their people were on the scene with cleanup equipment and personnel well within the mandated six hours specified under the ship's state-approved contingency plan. Contra Costa Times 11/16/07
Unwilling to harvest Dungeness in the wake of last week's Cosco Busan fuel spill, hundreds of Bay Area commercial crab boats remained tied up at dock Thursday, as their season opened in waters outside the Golden Gate. Members of crab boat owners associations in San Francisco, Bodega Bay and Half Moon Bay had voted Saturday to delay their season until after Dec. 1, when they hope test results of the health of local Dungeness will be available. SF Chronicle 11/16/07
A U.S. House committee voted Thursday to implement a sweeping settlement to restore salmon to the San Joaquin River, but disputes remain before the measure can become law. The vote came over objections from minority Republicans that some farmers in the Central Valley wouldn't get enough water. The legislation would implement a settlement that would return water to a dry 60-mile stretch of the San Joaquin River by 2009 and bring back Chinook salmon no later than Dec. 31, 2012.Contra Costa Times 11/16/07
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