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Thursday 8 sepTember 2022
California faces another day of grid-straining extreme heat

By JOHN ANTCZAK p.m. to conserve electric-
Associated Press ity.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Op- Six places in the San Fran-
erators of California’s cisco Bay Area and central
electricity grid acknowl- coast set all-time record
edged Wednesday that a maximum temperatures,
miscommunication led to including Santa Rosa with
a small number of power 115 degrees F (46 C).
shutoffs during a period of In neighboring Nevada,
great strain, even as the Reno’s 106 F (41 C) on Tues-
state faced another day day was its hottest day
of extreme heat that could ever recorded in Septem-
prompt much larger rolling ber and smashed the previ-
blackouts. ous record for the date, 96
The miscommunication oc- F (35.5 C) in 1944. It came
curred Tuesday afternoon within 2 degrees of the all-
between a Northern Cali- time high for any day or
fornia utility and the Cali- month of 108 F (42 C), set
fornia Independent System Olof Wood walks across reef-like structures called microbialites, exposed by receding waters at in July 2002 and equaled in
Operator as the grid was the Great Salt Lake Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, near Salt Lake City. July 2007, according to the
perilously close to running Associated Press National Weather Service.
out of energy, said Elliot Amid the brutal Western kind of response from con- tioned lobbies of some of In Utah’s Salt Lake City — a
Mainzer, president and heat wave, peak electricity sumers Wednesday, only their public buildings as city at more than 4,000 feet
CEO of the CAISO. demand Tuesday hit 52,061 earlier, he said. cooling centers for people (1,219 meters) elevation —
Mainzer told a briefing megawatts, far above the Western states are strug- with nowhere else to go temperatures were about
he did not know specifi- previous high of 50,270 gling through one of the and offering free trans- 20 degrees higher than
cally how the miscommu- megawatts set on July 24, hottest and longest Sep- portation for people who normal, hitting 105 F (40.5
nication occurred but he 2006. tember heat waves on could not get there. Of- C) on Tuesday, the hottest
stressed the grid opera- Mainzer said at approxi- record. Temperatures be- ficials even handed out September day recorded
tor did not order rotating mately 5:45 p.m. Gov. gan soaring last week and motel vouchers to some going back to 1874.
blackouts. Gavin Newsom triggered the National Weather Ser- homeless people through Scientists say climate
The CAISO was in the midst a wireless emergency alert vice warned that danger- a program they normally change has made the
of a stage 3 alert and had system that sent messages ous heat could continue reserve for the winter, ac- West warmer and drier
ordered utilities to prepare to people’s cellphones urg- through Friday, despite cording to county spokes- over the last three decades
to institute load shedding ing them to turn off or re- some slight moderation. woman Janna Haynes. and will continue to make
but did not proceed to the duce non-essential power. California’s state capital of “While a lot of people can weather more extreme
final order to do so. “Within moments we saw a Sacramento hit an all-time stay home, a lot of people and wildfires more frequent
Mainzer said he did not significant amount of load high Tuesday of 116 de- do not have a home to and destructive. In the last
know how many customers reduction,” Mainzer said, grees (46.7 C), breaking a stay in,” Haynes said. five years, California has
were affected when the adding that it took the state 97-year-old record. In state office buildings, experienced the largest
errant power shutoffs oc- back from “the edge.” Sacramento County of- thermostats were being set and most destructive fires
curred. The grid will need the same ficials used the air-condi- at 85 degrees (29 C) at 5 in state history.q

Judge strikes down 1931 Michigan law

criminalizing abortion

tine medical care not only petition has kept it off the with an injunction. Her lat-
denies women of their abil- ballot so far. est decision applies to all
ity to control their bodies In the case handled by state and local prosecutors
and their lives — it denies Gleicher, the 1931 law in Michigan. The Republi-
them of their dignity,” Glei- makes it a crime to perform can-controlled House and
cher of the Court of Claims abortions unless the life of Senate can appeal the rul-
wrote. “Michigan’s Consti- the mother is in danger. ing, which came in a law-
tution forbids this violation The judge found the law suit from Planned Parent-
of due process.” “compels motherhood” hood.
The decision comes as the and prevents a woman Gleicher acknowledged
Abortion rights protesters attend a rally outside the state Capitol
in Lansing, Mich., on June 24, 2022, following the United States Michigan Supreme Court from determining the in July that she has been a
Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. is considering whether to “shape of her present and regular donor to the orga-
Associated Press place a proposed amend- future life.” nization and gave $1,000
ment on the Nov. 8 ballot The law “forces a preg- to the campaigns of Gov.
By ED WHITE courtrooms and, possibly, that would add abortion nant woman to forgo her Gretchen Whitmer and At-
Associated Press at the ballot box. rights to the state constitu- reproductive choices and torney General Dana Nes-
DETROIT (AP) — A judge on The law, which was long tion. A Friday deadline is to instead serve as `an in- sel, both Democrats who
Wednesday struck down dormant before the U.S. looming. voluntary vessel entitled to support abortion rights. But
Michigan’s 1931 anti-abor- Supreme Court overturned Supporters submitted more no more respect than other that support wasn’t a rea-
tion law, months after sus- Roe v. Wade in June, vio- than 700,000 signatures, forms of collectively owned son to pass the case to an-
pending it, the latest de- lates the Michigan Consti- easily clearing the thresh- property,’” Gleicher wrote, other judge, said Gleicher,
velopment over abortion tution, said Judge Elizabeth old. But a tie vote by the quoting constitutional who also serves as chief
rights in a state where the Gleicher. Board of State Canvassers scholar Laurence Tribe.She judge on the Michigan
issue is being argued in “A law denying safe, rou- over spacing issues on the suspended the law in May Court of Appeals.q