Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom deployed a large contingent of California Highway Patrol officers to Oakland to mitigate the crime surge, with a focus on curtailing brazen retail and vehicle thefts.

Those scandals prompted a 2023 statewide audit aimed at curtailing bribery in the cannabis business.

Other scenarios simulate idling irrigated farmland, reducing pumping in areas where groundwater levels are forecast to decrease the most, setting limits on how much groundwater can be pumped and curtailing junior water rights.

This is the third year in a row a country hosting the climate summit has been accused of oppression and curtailing the legal right to protest.

In the hope of curtailing damage to surrounding areas, park officials announced that weekend visits up to Horsetail Fall in February will now require reservations.