TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Wine spill shuts down highway near Rio Vista after crash
• Informational meeting on Proposition 65 and violations for wineries at Deerfield Ranch Winery, Kenwood
• Carlton McCoy Joins Napa's Heitz Cellar as President and CEO
• Bertran to leave Gloria Ferrer
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• PG&E Says Its Equipment Is the ‘Probable’ Cause of Deadly Camp Fire
• CA Gov Newsom wants to spend $40 million to hire more firefighters. Why some want to double that

• Vallejo may lower its tax on cannabis products to be competitive with nearby cities
• Thc could replace abv as consumers look to cannabis for an “intoxicating buzz”
• USDA starts process to regulate industrial hemp
• New York City Council Holds Joint Hearing On Marijuana Legalization

• Amazon’s next ad move: AmazonFresh ‘sponsored products’
• Amazon wants to sell “every genuine product in the world.” That’s a mistake.
• Ding, dong, the Dash is dead
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DROUGHT/WATER

• CA: Latest Snow Survey Finds Water-Rich Snowpack
• Scoring the storm: New scale for atmospheric rivers puts Bay Area deluge at nearly ‘Category 4’
• Next Pacific storm to take aim at California this weekend
• Mountain snow still not enough to end Colorado River drought
• Monitoring and Managing Sea-Level Rise Impacts on Tidal Marshes in the San Francisco Estuary
• Russian River hit by severe flooding

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