Top of the morning’s news
- California became the first state to adopt firm limits on greenhouse gases emitted by refineries, power plants and major manufacturers after the state Air Resources Board unanimously approved a so-called cap-and-trade program Thursday. LA Times
- A second 3.9 earthquake at 8:16 last night was centered near the UC Berkeley campus where a nearly identical quake occurred in the afternoon. Examiner
- The National Writers Union says it’s withdrawing from the Huffington Post boycott launched in March with the Newspaper Guild. Romenesko
- An attorney filed a class action lawsuit claiming that Los Angeles Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik illegally wiretapped him, a claim the newspaper dismissed as baseless. Courthouse News Service
- A new vacancy on the federal bench is opening in San Francisco, after U. S. District Judge Charles Breyer said he will transfer to senior status with a limited caseload by the end of the year. Chronicle
- Michele Bachman’s appearance in San Francisco drew no protesters Thursday, only a polite, standing-room-only crowd of about 250 at the Commonwealth Club. Chronicle Politics blog
"Please help! We need the police. Somebody shot everybody."-- Voice of a survivor of the Cupertino rock quarry massacre, the 911 tapes of which were released by authorities.
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Other news
- Oakland officials put anti-Wall Street protesters outside City Hall on notice that their encampment there can no longer continue. Oakland Tribune
- PG&E denied state regulators’ suggestion that it installed “junked” pipe in its gas transmission system in the 1940s and ‘50s. Chronicle
- The state Attorney General’s office said it is still pondering whether to re-file rape charges against Contra Costa prosecutor Michael Gressett, after local prosecutors dropped charges that he raped a former colleague during a 2008 lunch break. Contra Costa Times
- A criminal suspect paused to eat at the same restaurant in Danville’s Black Hawk Plaza where he allegedly robbed a man in the parking lot, and still managed to get away after police showed up and recognized him. Contra Costa Times
- An elderly couple was found shot to death in Oakland’s Laurel district Thursday afternoon and police are investigating the deaths as a murder-suicide. Oakland Tribune
- A new 5.3-mile section of the Bay Area Ridge Trail will open Saturday in the hills east of San Jose. Mercury News
