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July, 2021
- California oil regulators delay health, safety rules again
- In big first, California’s oil and gas regulatory agency denies all 21 Aera Energy fracking permit applications
- State denies Valley fracking permits, citing health and climate concerns
- ETGSA approves proposed groundwater extraction fee
- The West is caught in a vicious climate change feedback loop
- Newsletter: How solar panels on farmland could help California fix its water and power crises
- You can’t drink oil: 1.8 billion gallons of freshwater were used for fracking and drilling in CA since Fall 2018
- A California Town Has No Reliable Running Water During A Heat Wave
- State reassures growers over recent activist recruitment efforts
June, 2021
- California Drought: Coalition opposes temporary urgency changes for Central Valley Water Project and State Water Project
- EPA Announces Plans To Strengthen Environmental Justice Through Criminal Enforcement
- DTSC Agency Over Toxic Mess in At-Risk Communities
- California Town Completely Without Running Water as Drought, Heat Wave Intensifies
- California town reportedly has no running water during heat wave
- An entire California town is without running water — in a heat wave
- An entire California town is without running water — in a heat wave
- The West Coast: Carbon Free by 2045 . . . or Earlier
- Report: Groundwater Overhaul Could Threaten Drinking Water Of More Than A Million Valley Residents
- U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Debbie Stabenow Introduce Bill to Ensure Lead-Free Drinking Water for All Americans
- High court expands eligibility for Clean Air Act exemption
- California was supposed to get protection from backyard oil drilling. Another missed deadline.
- California approves 11.5 GW of new clean resources in largest-ever single procurement order
- California Public Utilities Commission Orders Major Buildout of New Zero-Emission Electricity Resources, Sierra Club Reports
- The EPA Just Announced A $50 Million Push To Help Underserved Communities Tackle Pollution And Get Jobs
- Central Valley town without water — again — and repairs are weeks away amid heatwave
- Nonprofit calling for action after fire at southwest Fresno recycling center
- Should California Turn Contaminated Land Into Affordable Housing?
- Environmental Justice ‘Finding Voice,’ if Not Votes, in States
- California Oil Regulators Missed Another Deadline to Release New Health and Safety Rules
- East Orosi one step closer to clean water as Tulare County moves to become administrator
- Enviro Expert: California’s ‘Clean Energy’ Policies Should Not Be Adopted by Federal Govt.
- California delays oil and gas health buffers for another time, while people die prematurely
- Officials issue warning about poor air quality in Valley
- New bill would tax polluters, redirect funds to impacted communities
- Tulare County’s never-ending drought brings dried up wells and plenty of misery
- Little Manila Perseveres: How Filipinx Leaders in Stockton Are Organizing for the Next Generation
- How much fracking is there in California? Newsom, state regulators can’t tell
- As a Hot, Dry Summer Begins in California, More Water Wells Are Failing
- California's climate plan pits bioenergy against environmental justice goals
- Oil and Gas Industry Diverted 3 Billion Gallons of Freshwater for Drilling That Could Have Gone to Households
- Oilfield disposal site in western Kern set to close
- In the Shadow of Big Oil: Neighborhood Drilling in California
- The Golden State Going Greener
- Newsletter: Why a California oil workers union is getting behind clean energy
- Even With All Eyes on Racial Justice, Few Green Funders Are Sharing Their Data
- Environmental justice report targets farmworkers, pesticides
- How better data can help California avoid a drinking water crisis
- Hefty budget offers chance for state to seal ‘Green New Deal’
- Mold, leaks and pests: Substandard housing conditions continue in Fresno
- 'Energy Justice' Nominee Brings Activist Voice To Biden's Climate Plans
- How Communities Of Color Are Hurt Most By Climate Change
- Can California Avoid Another Toxic Waste Disaster?
- Latinx and Low-Income Communities Are Paying the Human Costs of Plastic Pollution
- Solar Bill That Split Dems, Environmentalists Fails
- Where are the U.S.’s natural gas pipelines? Often in vulnerable communities.
- Advocates call for early notification from ag commissioners of pesticide spraying
- U.S. Solar Power’s Land Grab Hits a Snag: Environmentalists
- Bill That Would Add 2 Environmental Justice Representatives to the AQMD Board and Help Improve Air Quality in the South Coast Air Basin Halts This Year but Conversations Will Continue
- Senate Passes Sen. Dodd’s water access and equity bill
- The Path to Climate Solutions Starts with Environmental Justice
May, 2021
April, 2021
- CA must commit to ambitious climate targets, infrastructure will follow
- Newsom orders end to fracking in California by 2024, work toward phasing out all in-state oil production by 2045
- California takes steps to ban fracking by 2024 and will halt oil extraction by 2045
- Newsom orders end to fracking in California by 2024, work toward phasing out all in-state oil production by 2045
- Gov. Newsom aims to phase out fracking; will halt issuance of permits by 2024
- Newsom to announce ban on new fracking projects
- 'Just transition' advocates revisit anti-oil campaign after key defeat in Sacramento
- CalEPA Announces Carbon Neutrality Studies Identify Potential Paths for California to Reach 2045 Goal
- How California Oil Spillers Fend Off New Climate Laws
- DOT Floats Restoring Calif.'s Right To GHG Emissions Rules
- California wells will go dry this summer. ‘Alarm bells are sounding’ in the Valley
- 4 in 10 Americans breathe polluted air, with people of color hit hardest
- Gov. Newsom declares emergency drought in two California counties. Central Valley excluded for now
- Groups Say It's Time For EPA To Update Oil Spill Response
- We keep improving, but Bakersfield still ranks among the most polluted cities in America
- Finding alternatives to agricultural burning in the San Joaquin Valley
- Latinx Leaders Paving the Way for Climate Action
- Replacing Fossil Fuels with Community-Led Clean Energy
- New UC Center for Climate Justice launches
- Environmental Justice in the Biden Administration: Early Actions Draw First Bold Lines
- Watchdog: Trump's rollback undercut EPA staff
- Free bottled water is coming to up to 42,000 Stanislaus-area homes with tainted wells
- It’s time to collaborate on climate and economic justice solutions
- Advancing environmental justice through law
- California Lawmakers Vow to Hold DA Association Accountable for Misspent Funds
- California is greenlighting oil wells linked to groundwater pollution
- Calif. rooftop solar fight could shift industry's future
- Low-income Californians must help state set climate change, economic justice goals
- Oil & Gas Scorecard will document industry’s influence on California politics
March, 2021
- CalEPA plans to post pesticide notifications for all counties
- Heat, Smoke and Covid Are Battering the Workers Who Feed America
- California Launches Updated Environmental Justice Screening Tool
- The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Last Stand in California Oil Country
- Will Valley air district actually enforce new restrictions on agricultural burning?
- 2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Introduced?
- Expected State Attorney General Action in Response to Post-Election Environmental Policy Change
- California Attorney General Xavier Becerra Challenges a President Trump-era Rule Weakening of Crucial Requirements that Protect Public from Lead in Drinking Water
- Activists see remediation work as key to 'just transition' away from local oil production
- Air board tells San Joaquin Valley growers to phase out ag burns by 2025
- Factory Farms: New EPA Emissions Data Should Guide Biden on Agriculture and Climate
- Cap and trade, offsets at a crossroads in California’s climate policy
February, 2021
- 'It's a toxic blend': where the kids are warned not to swallow the bath water
- County unveils plan to transform parks in underserved communities — but there's a hitch
- More Than 25 Million Americans Drink From the Worst Water Systems
- Arvin, Lamont area chosen for program to improve air quality in disadvantaged communities
- Center for Biological Diversity sues Cali over oil, gas drilling
- Renewable Energy Technology is Not Fully Helping Communities That Need it Most
- Gavin Newsom Sued for 'Completely Unacceptable' Approval of Oil and Gas Projects in California
- Los Angeles is Looking Into Clean Energy, But is it Enough?
- Lawsuit Filed Against California, CalGEM Over Fracking Environmental Reviews
- Big Decisions: The Future of US Environmental and Energy Policy
- California air board OKs crackdown on agricultural burning in San Joaquin Valley
- Air board tells San Joaquin Valley growers to phase out burns by 2025
- Exposure to Pollution Has Long-Term Effect on Multiple Generations
- Air pollution kills. Making that official can help us tackle it.
- State Auditor Says California Air Regulator Overstated Emission Reductions
- The origins of environmental justice—and why it’s finally getting the attention it deserves
- Communities at the Heart of Climate Action
- BC Awarded Nearly $2 Million to Develop the Kern Regional Workforce Coalition, A High Road Training Partnership
- Conservatives call Biden pick for HHS Xavier Becerra an 'extremist,' oppose nomination
- Up in smoke: Burns in San Joaquin Valley vineyards, orchards may finally end
- Burns in San Joaquin Valley vineyards, orchards may finally end. What delayed it?
- Gov. Gavin Newsom is at a crossroads on climate action and environmental justice
- New bill seeks to ban fracking in California
- Kern Community Leaders Address Dangers of Oil and Gas at BC Webinar
- California to review carbon trading program as part of climate roadmap
- State lawmakers debut bill to ban oilfield techniques common in Kern
- New Bill Seeks to Ban Fracking in California
- Leyva introduces bill that seeks to ban harmful land uses
- Democratic State Lawmakers Propose Fracking Ban in California
- Calif. Senators Propose Banning Fracking In State By 2027
- California Lawmakers Move to Ban Fracking in Golden State
- CA Bill Would Ban New Fracking Permits and Phase Out the Practice
- California lawmaker proposes ban on fracking by 2027
- Senator Leyva Introduces Legislation to Protect California Communities and Residents from Pollutants
- Kern’s Planning Commission recommends approval of changes
- Ag Council president reflects on drinking water collaboration
- 40% of climate benefits? Explaining Biden's EJ promise
- California to review carbon trading program as part of climate roadmap
- Burning Fossil Fuels Caused One-Fifth of Premature Deaths in 2018
- Kern Residents Plead With Elected Officials To Stop The Expansion Of Oil And Gas In Rural Communities
- CPUC moves forward with plan to prevent 2021 blackouts despite criticism from environmental groups
- California is still oil country. This county wants to keep it that way.
- The Kern County Planning Commission Votes In Favor Of Gas and Oil Ordinance Despite Public Outcry
- Planning commission to discuss oil well ordinance, Kern County leaders express support, opposition
- 9th Circ. Ends Challenge To EPA's Diesel Emissions Rule
- Environmental Justice Members Resign from CARB Task Force on Carbon Offsets
- Environmental Justice: Close the fundraising gap in climate activism
- Fresno-area residents owe over $15 million on late water bills. Will they get a bailout?
- Anti-oil coalition presents 7,000 signatures ahead of county meeting on streamlined permitting
- Op-ed: Essential farmworkers deserve pesticide protections
- Mary Nichols Was the Early Favorite to Run Biden’s EPA, Before She Became a ‘Casualty’
- Air District launches $12.5 million program to reduce ag dust
- Making environmental giving equitable
- What’s Next For State Climate Action In The US? 7 Areas To Watch
- County oil review set to resurface next week at contentious hearing
- Self-Sabotage: Climate Philanthropy’s Mistrust of Communities of Color Must End Now
- Biden Seeks To Put Teeth In Environmental Justice Policies
- Environmental Groups’ Greatest Obstacle May Not Be Republican Opposition
- Foundations Pledge to Direct More Grants to Climate Groups Led by People of Color
- UC Irvine's Michael Méndez on an Environmental Justice Agenda for 2021
- Pledge drive urges funding racially diverse climate efforts
- Mapping Environmental Justice in the Biden-Harris Administration
- Mapping Environmental Justice in the Biden-Harris Administration
- California Adds New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Along Highway 99, Creates Climate Corps
- Environmental justice groups applaud CalEPA’s directive on pesticide notifications
- California Environmental Officials Switch to Offense as Biden Takes Charge
- California Governor Gavin Newsom, Despite Pledge, Signed 1,709 Oil and Gas Production Permits
- Groups fear California blackout prevention plan could increase gas use, threaten climate goals
January, 2021
- Talks on expanding local pesticide notifications deadlock
- Environmentalists Demand Gavin Newsom Join Biden’s Halt of Oil and Gas Drilling
- Ignored no longer, people of color shape climate action
- Will California’s regulators end the cycle of injustice and toxic contamination?
- Editorial: Biden's climate shift is a break and a test for Newsom
- With Democrats in power, an emboldened environmental movement confronts them
- Biden climate plan: Environmental justice 'writ large'
- Earthworks report reveals California fails to safely manage toxic oil and gas waste (that’s also radioactive)
- CA’s environmental agenda gets new energy
- EJ Groups Flex Muscle
- Cal Leaders Applaud Biden on Administration Action on Climate
- Oil and gas companies say they support climate action. Are they serious?
- Pesticide report renews debate on health risks
- Kern County towns may be next for emissions reduction grants
- ‘The most basic form of PPE’: 1.6 million households face water shutoffs
- Reps. Barragán and Clarke reintroduce the Energy Resilient Communities Act to fight Climate Crisis
- State takes credit for issuing 23% fewer oil drilling permits
- Biden Sets in Motion Plan to Ban New Oil and Gas Leases on Federal Land
- What Biden’s presidency means for California’s environment
- What Biden’s presidency means for California’s environment
- Activists See Biden’s Day One Focus on Environmental Justice as a Critical Campaign Promise Kept
- Unsafe Water More Common in Communities of Color
- The Environmental Justice Movement Moves Front and Center in the Biden Administration
- As Californians Rack Up $1 Billion in Water Debt, Advocates Fear Relief Could Come Too Late
- Air Resources Board Elevates Environmental Justice to Executive Level
- Kamala Harris says California’s water crisis is a racial injustice. Will she champion equity?
- Toxic Pesticide Faces New Scrutiny From Biden Administration
- Californians owe $1 billion in water bills, facing massive shutoffs. Is relief on the way?
- Low Income Communities Drowning In Water Debt, New California Water Board Survey Finds
- California households owe $1bn in water bills as affordability crisis worsens
- Can Climate Efforts Be the “Everything Policy Store”?
- California Attorney General, CARB Lead Coalition in Challenging Trump Administration's ‘Insufficient’ Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Airplanes
- Newsom budget hurts environmental justice programs
- How the Biden-Harris Administration Can Fight Climate Change and Structural Racism
- Democrats look to pass environmental justice package
- White House Transition - Cabinet Nominee Bios
- Solar for renters in environmental justice communities is key to building a resilient California
- Politicians join industry's campaign against phasing out California oil production
- Newsom’s approach to pesticides frustrates farm groups
- Two Years Later, Newsom Has Failed on Climate
- Microgrids are coming — will they increase inequities?
- Environmental Groups Oppose Biden’s Top EPA Candidate
- Oil Drilling on California’s Federal Lands Set to Resume After 8 Years, Sets up Early Test of Biden Administration
- Op-Ed: Finally, a Chance for Environmental Justice
- Neonic Pesticides: Potential Risks to Brain and Sperm
- Enjoying New Clout, Environmental Justice Groups May Press Biden
- Letters to the editor for Sunday, Jan. 3
- California’s New Year’s gift: More fracking permits, delayed safety regulations
December, 2020
- The 'Revolutionary' Fight Over California's Hidden Oil and Gas Wells
- Biden Faces Pressure to Tackle Backlog of 'Unfunded' Toxic Waste Sites
- Key Carbon Market Developments From 2020: Part 1
- Signs of Hope for US Federal Climate Action in 2021
- More than ‘Build Back Better’: Climate groups tell Biden to ‘Build Back Fossil Free’
- Inundated with smoke: Central Valley air quality was uniquely bad this wildfire season
- How The Asian Pacific Environmental Network Built Trust Through Decades Of Organizing
- In 2018, the California AG Created an Environmental Justice Bureau. It’s Become a Trendsetter
- This California Law Offers Biden a Tool in the Fight for Environmental Justice
- Legacy of a clean-air czar: Clearer skies, bold alliances and bitter controversy
- It's a shame Mary Nichols won't lead Joe Biden's EPA - Los Angeles Times
- County fails to deliver pesticide protections for Ivanhoe community
- Planning commission approves Richgrove gas and oil well
- California's landmark cap-and-trade policy faces growing claims of environmental racism
- Racial Justice Activists Push Joe Biden to Reward Them with Administration Posts: ‘This Is a Litmus Test’
- Transition Thoughts: The Presidential Transition, NEPA, and Project Review
- National Momentum for Equitable Building Decarbonization
- Racial justice advocates flex power, ask Biden to do more than ‘check the box’
- Dogmatism on Carbon Pricing Mustn’t Derail Climate Progress
- Mary Nichols, California's Great Environmental Warrior, Did Not Fight the Right Battles for Some
- The climate crisis is hitting close to home. What can we do?
- The Vibe Of It All: Turning Stockton Into 'An Oasis Of Joy'
- Opinion: Ten pieces of good news for the environment in a dismal 2020
- ‘The Fight Against Fossil Fuel Infrastructure is the Fight for Healthy Communities’
- Environmental justice groups block Mary Nichols’ path to EPA
- Climate stars surround Biden. Where does EPA fit in?
- So You’ve Been Publicly Fumed
- Biden pick for US Interior post seen potentially curbing fossil fuel development
- The climate picks keep on coming
- The New Derivatives Market in California Water: Disaster Natural Resources Capitalism at Work
- Boiling Point: Obama wouldn’t keep fossil fuels in the ground. But Biden says he will
- Biden rejects California regulator for EPA job, after environmental justice complaints
- UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Granholm is Biden’s pick for Energy, signaling shift to green policies
- With climate team taking shape, Biden weighs picks for EPA, Interior
- Environmental Justice and Climate Action: Are the two in conflict? What should we make of the attacks on Mary Nichols?
- Communities Of Color Are Supposed To Be Getting State Money To Reduce Pollution. Where Is It?
- Gina McCarthy emerges as top choice for climate adviser
- Californian was frontrunner for Biden’s environmental chief. Why that may be in jeopardy
- Biden Soured on EPA Favorite After Concerns Over Environmental Racism: Report
- Two New Transportation Leaders in California Legislature
- Claims of ‘Bleak’ Environmental Justice Record Appear to Fell a Biden Favorite
- Environmental Justice Leaders Look for a Focus on Disproportionately Impacted Communities of Color
- A new town in the hills above Fresno? Not without fixing air quality problems, judge says
- What do Fresno’s neglected and unhealthy spaces have to do with gun and gang violence?
- Latinos in Fresno deserve efforts to reduce climate-driven pollution and illnesses
- Groundbreaking Appointment: Liane Randolph to Chair CARB
- The battle over Nichols for EPA
- How poor and diverse voters fuel California’s record ballots cast
- Why Mary Nichols could lose climate clout at EPA
- ‘Pesticide drift’ affecting California health and safety
- Toxic tap water in Latino towns is a legacy of racist policies, California officials say
- Newsom Appoints Longtime Regulator to Replace Nichols as Top Calif. Air Official
- Who will fill Kamala Harris’ Senate seat? Newsom ought to appoint a climate hawk
- How can we hold politicians to their promises on race and climate?
- Off-Target Pesticide Service Douses Neighboring Properties, People
- Several US Regions' Found With Arsenic-Poisoned Drinking Water
- Biden Gets Earful From Progressives on Environment Jobs
- Much Of California’s Water Wells Are Contaminated With Chromium-6. Could A Costly Fix Be Coming?
- Trump Opens Up Bidding for Oil and Gas Leases in California
- Xavier Becerra’s Move to the Biden Administration
- Newly Appointed Chair of California Air Resources Board Poised to Build on California’s Environmental Leadership
- Newsom picks new leader for powerful California air board
- Governor Newsom Appoints New Chair to Air Resources Board
- Xavier Becerra, H.H.S. Pick, Was California’s Anti-Trump Attack Dog
- Biden can’t move the needle on environmental justice without these 2 things
- New Stanford study allows regional prediction of uranium in groundwater
- What the fight over EPA chief says about Democratic divisions
- The Energy 202: California's top air official at center of nomination war for Biden's EPA chief
- Xavier Becerra Brings Environmental Justice to Forefront
- Climate Hawks Vote: Staffing the Biden Administration with climate hawks
- Justice Served
- This Week in Fresnoland: Southwest residents voice contamination concerns
- A Biden-Harris Take on Environmental Justice: What to Expect
- Behind the 'Ultimate Hypocrisy' of Letting Vernon's Toxic Battery Plant Off the Hook for Millions
- The Energy 202: Biden calls climate change an 'emergency.' Now he's under pressure to officially declare it one.
- California’s Environmental Justice Policies Should Serve as A Model for the Biden-Harris Administration
- 70+ Organizations Oppose CARB Chair Mary Nichols for EPA
- Governor Newsom Announces Appointments 12.2.20
- Exide Bankruptcy Case Will Cost Californians Millions
- California Environmental Groups Tell Biden Not to Pick Mary Nichols for EPA
- California regulator might become Biden’s EPA chief. Why some environmentalists oppose her
- California Air and Climate Vol. 17: CARB Expands Emissions Reporting Requirements and Considers Indoor Gas Appliances; SJVAPCD Pursues Additional Reductions from Glass Furnaces, Stationary Engines, and the Oil and Gas Industry
November, 2020
- Air district plans to further limit ag burning
- waterloop #64: Susana De Anda on the One Million Californians Without Drinking Water
- This Week in Fresnoland: Private well owners can shape state’s water decisions
- White House Races to Finalize Environmental Rollbacks
- Top California climate regulator wants to run Biden EPA
- Boiling Point: In the West, opposing natural gas is tricky — even for a Democrat with climate cred
- Challenges to new California power plants now allowed in Superior Court
- Utilities launch groundbreaking 'green' hydrogen-gas project
- Protect Agricultural Workers During COVID-19
- Jerry Brown's Climate Advice to Biden: Rebuild Credibility, Disregard Environmental Advocates
- Emissions are down and cap-and-trade revenue is up, but California’s Scoping Plan must accelerate climate ambition
- California’s Efforts to Reduce Pollution, Greenhouse Gases Are Inextricable from Environmental Justice
- Sunrun Announces Environmental Justice Initiatives
- California Volunteers Selects Host Partners for Inaugural California Climate Action Corps Fellowship - Includes California Fire Safe Council
- Racial disparities in access to running water: 5 studies to know
- Groups Question Effectiveness of CA Cap-and-Trade Program
- The fossil fuel industry wants you to believe it’s good for people of color
- In California, 1 million people lack access to clean water
- Can California’s Cap and Trade Actually Address Environmental Justice?
- Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?
- If You Care About the Climate Crisis, You Must Care About Environmental Justice—Here’s Why
- L.A. Could Mandate Buffer Zones Around Oil, Gas Wells
- Boiling Point: Los Angeles can restrict oil and gas drilling with buffer zones, city attorney says
- California Expands Air Monitoring to Include PFAS, More Toxics
- It’s crunch time for dairies to wrap up nitrate and drinking water plans
- Help is on the way for California’s air and climate
- 9 Questions For Calif. Air Board Leader Mary Nichols
- A Quick Look at the Biden-Harris Clean Energy Plan, and its California Connections
- California Is Making Progress On Safe Water For All, But Work Remains
- CaliforniaAttorney General Becerra, Governor Newsom and State Agencies Oppose Sale of Oil and Gas Leases in Kern County
- How California Is An Example For Biden’s Climate Change Fight
- Valley Air District’s Emissions Bank Likely To Change Following Damaging State Review
- How Will VP Harris Influence Climate Policy At The White House?
- Newsom, State Attorney General among those challenging sale of oil and gas leases in Kern
- Pesticides from helicopter landed near San Joaquin soccer players, state lawsuit says
- Disadvantaged Communities May Get Overlooked For Climate Adaptation Funding
- What Does it Take to Meet State Climate and Equity Goals?
- California water board orders mandatory solution to East Orosi water situation
- Geographies of insecure water access and the housing–water nexus in US cities
- New National Climate Change Guide Focuses On Impact In San Joaquin Valley Communities
- New Report Advances Equity Solutions for Community Choice Aggregators
October, 2020
- The Evolving Landscape of Environmental Justice in 2020 and Beyond
- The Evolving Landscape of Environmental Justice in 2020 and Beyond
- US election 2020: Can America's oil and gas workers be persuaded to vote for Joe Biden's green dream?
- California Agencies Begin to Grapple With Racial Equity and Environmental Justice
- Scientists Share Coping Strategies for San Joaquin Valley Households at Risk of Extreme Climate Impacts
- California Agencies Begin to Grapple With Racial Equity and Environmental Justice
- Air Board hopes to ban all ag burning, despite incentives drying up
- Parents Sue Chlorpyrifos Makers Corteva, Dow Over Child’s Autism
- California’s Prop 21 Endorsed by Over 300 Organizations and Elected Officials
- Additional measures, enforcement needed in San Joaquin Valley plan for clean air
- Communities Say NO to Oil Drilling, YES to Community Health
- This Week in Fresnoland: A Drinking Water Guide
- Parents Sue Manufacturer of Neurotoxic Insecticide Chlorpyrifos, Corteva (formerly Dow), for Causing Child’s Disabilities
- Behind the Battle for the Future of California’s Oil
- San Joaquin Valley family says company’s toxic pesticide caused child’s disabilities
- Black employees at California environmental agency allege systemic racism at workplace
- A close race for Prop. 15
- California’s Landmark Groundwater Law Falls Short, Advocates Say
- It your water contaminated? Here’s a guide to health risks and filters that work
- On the Shoulders of Giants: The Lineage and Growth of California’s Intergenerational, Multiracial Youth Movement
- Getting Off Gas Must Benefit Those Burdened by Pollution
- Climate policy, environmental justice, and local air pollution
- San Joaquin Valley family says company’s toxic pesticide caused child’s disabilities
- Protect forgotten agricultural workers during COVID-19
- Cap and Trade-Offs: Did California's landmark legislation help or hurt the state's most vulnerable?
- Just How Bad Is California’s Water Debt Problem? The State Isn’t Sure
- Governor's order on zero-emission vehicles leaves room for local producers of renewable fuel
- Industrial farms leave water wells ‘high and dry’ despite regulations, Madera residents say
- California Announces THE END for Brain-Harming Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
- EWG News Roundup (10/9): Nitrate Contaminates Water in California’s Majority-Latino Communities, Members of Congress Rake in Farm Subsidies and More
- Kern oil permitting review hits delay
- Another California Executive Order: Conserve Lands, Align Policies to Fight Climate Change
- Environmental groups launch campaign against Kern oil permitting plan
- EWG Investigation: In California’s Majority-Latino Communities, 5.25 Million Drink Tap Water With Nitrate Above Federal Limit
- In California, Latinos More Likely To Be Drinking Nitrate-Polluted Water
- Nitrate-tainted drinking water plagues California farmworker towns, study shows
- ‘United Latinos Vote’ Sends Loud Message to Sierra Club for ‘Hypocritical and Socially Divisive’ Scheme
- Activists Criticize Newsom for Not Addressing Oil Drilling
- During worst air pollution period ever, Valley Air District delivers hazy warnings
- California Becomes First State to Ban 24 Toxic Chemicals From Cosmetics
September, 2020
- Governor vetoes bill to reform California's top toxics regulator, the DTSC
- Legislation will provide environmental justice to protect communities from toxics
- Pregnancy And Pesticides: A Study As Old As Its Subjects Reveals Health Concerns
- Gov. Gavin Newsom and Big Oil: It’s Complicated
- Air quality in San Joaquin Valley is ‘worst we’ve ever had,’ officials say
- California Attorney General ‘Slams’ Trump Administration Plan to Sell Seven Oil and Gas Leases in Kern County
- Will Gavin Ever Stand Up to Big Oil?
- Thousands Oppose First Federal Oil Lease Sale in California in Eight Years, Center for Biological Diversity Reports
- Newsom’s Climate Order Snubs Environmental Justice Advocates and Protects Big Oil
- Thousands Oppose First Federal Oil Lease Sale in California in Eight Years
- Air district considers alternatives to open burning of ag waste
- Legal Petition Seeks to Close California Forest Carbon Loophole
- Boiling Point: California won’t need to kill fossil fuel plants. They’re dying of old age
- What to Know About Newsom’s Big Climate Plan
- Drinking water is contaminated in rural California. Why is it taking so long to fix?
- ‘Not the Time for Small Ball’: Climate Leaders Tout Ways to Lead California Through Crises
- Wiener says he’ll move to ban fracking in California, following Newsom’s lead
- Calif. Biomass Energy Needs Gas Regs, Advocates Say
- Gavin Newsom’s climate hypocrisy
- All New California Cars, Trucks Must Be Zero-Emission By 2035, Newsom Announces In Executive Order
- All New California Cars, Trucks Must Be Zero-Emission By 2035, Newsom Announces In Executive Order
- Consumer Reports Study Rates Foods with Pesticide Residues; Doesn’t Include Worker, Environmental Justice, Biodiversity Impacts
- In Open Letter to California, Climate and Environmental Justice Groups Outline Key Climate Actions for Gov. Newsom
- In California Conservation and Public Health Organizations Demand Clean Air, Environmental Justice for San Joaquin Valley, NPCA Reports
- EPA Challenged Over San Joaquin Valley Air Quality Approvals
- Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them.
- County prepares final version of critical oil and gas review
- California Takes a Big Step Toward Making Polluters Pay for Their Messes
- The US Agriculture System Is a Disaster for Farmworkers and the Planet
- Air district seeks Kern County representative for environmental justice
- California Takes a Big Step Toward Making Polluters Pay for Their Messes
- Power Up: California may be burning. But it's also still drilling for oil
- In a Dry State, Farmers Use Oil Wastewater to Irrigate Their Fields, but is it Safe?
- EPA postpones speaker series on racism after White House order
- Lawmakers let oil and gas interests sicken us; Gov. Newsom can put us on the path to recovery
- Fresno area ‘surrounded by fires.’ Residents warned to stay inside from record-bad air
- Lawmakers let oil and gas interests sicken us; Gov. Newsom can put us on the path to recovery
- California farmworkers say they didn’t get masks during wildfires
- State senator’s vote on safety zones from oil drilling was wrong and poorly explained
- Plume from massive fires swirling over Fresno area. Here’s how to stay safe
- Watch: Fresno Voices — How the city failed its Black residents, and the path forward
- Nation’s largest solar farm approved for Tulare County
- Where is the ash in Stanislaus County coming from, and how long will it be here?
- In CA: Wildfires continue and the air quality suffers
- Senator Harris’ Environmental Justice Bill Tears Page From Personal Care Products Safety Act
- Groups for green jobs stage protest in front of McCarthy's Bakersfield home
- Children shouldn’t have to live right next to oil wells and fracking; Ventura County Supervisors pass setback rule
- Smell wildfire smoke in your home? Here’s a cheap and simple hack to clean indoor air
- Environmental Justice Voter Guide 2020
- California Democrats Kill Gas and Oil Regulations After Campaign Donations
- Amendments to California’s SB 1012 could shift oil well cleanup costs to taxpayers
August, 2020
- California’s attorney general sues Trump for the 100th time — to save the ‘Magna Carta’ of environmental laws
- The 3 CA Senate Dems who voted against drilling setbacks bill took big bucks from big oil
- Editorial: California is leading again on clean trucks and cleaner air
- Shape up or ship out: California requires ships, trucks to eliminate thousands of tons of pollution
- CARB Formally Adopts Low-NOx Omnibus Rule
- CalMatters Commentary: Despite COVID-19, Legislature keeps natural resources in focus
- Is Carbon Capture a Political Scam?
- California vs. Trump hits the 100-lawsuit mark with new challenge to environmental rules
- More California Cities Including Environmental Justice in Plans
- California adopts major pollution cuts for diesel trucks and ships
- CalEPA’s Jared Blumenfeld on Grounding COVID Recovery in Climate Action
- Fires Exacerbate Difficult Working Conditions For Farm Workers
- The power went out. Now California might let these gas plants stay open
- Community Voices: Be a climate champion
- Will Kamala Harris Act Boldly on Climate Change?
- California's cap-and-trade program pays for clean water fund
- Renewable Energy Isn’t to Blame for California’s Blackouts
January, 2020
November, 2019
October, 2019
- CARB Continues Global Leadership Role on Climate with Adoption of Tropical Forest Standard
- CalEPA announces ban of chlorpyrifos pesticide
- New data show severity of water contamination in poor neighborhoods
- Disadvantaged Communities Claim A Stake In State Groundwater Overhaul
- California's new climate change plan uses world's forests as collateral
- The Home of California’s Dirtiest Air Braces for Trump’s Smog War
- Governor signs Rivas’ environmental justice bill
- The Latest Carbon Market Developments: Part 1
September, 2019
- What Can Carbon Pricing Do?
- Governor Signs Senator Leyva’s Legislation Requiring Smog Checks for Big Rig Trucks
- California Air Officials Dispute EPA Letter Threatening Sanctions Due To Air Pollution
- California Polluters May Soon Buy Carbon 'Offsets' From the Amazon — Is That Ethical?
- We can not let health become like wealth – unequitably distributed: Mike Gatto
- Newsom Vetoes Bill to Protect Endangered Fish Species from Attacks by Trump
- California polluters may soon buy carbon “offsets” from the Amazon — is that ethical?
- As Indigenous Peoples Protest, California Approves Global Cap-and-trade Plan
- Groundwater salinity and the effects of produced water disposal in the Lost Hills–Belridge oil fields, Kern County, California
July, 2019
June, 2019
- After a gas leak forced an evacuation in Arvin, California, residents decided to fight back
- Gov. Gavin Newsom Must Act On His First California Budget By Midnight Tonight. Here’s What’s In It.
- California’s oil and gas regulators get an “F’ grade in environmental justice report
- Opinion: California’s trucks should be smog-checked like cars
- Climate Change Versus Clean Water: A Battle Over California Funds
- Kamala Harris on Climate Change: Where the Candidate Stands
- Is burning trash a good way to dispose of it? Waste incineration in charts
- Editorial: California Legislature must extend clean-air checks to trucks
- Bottled water containing high levels of arsenic sold at major retailers
- Groundwater markets pose a risk to communities on wells or small water systems
- Many States Disagree with President on Climate Change
- Overnight Energy: Trump proposal would nix agency reviews of long-term climate impacts | Greens rip decision | House votes to block offshore drilling for one year
- Some California regulators get poor grades from environmental watchdog
- California’s Population Is Majority-Minority. The Attorneys Who Represent It Are Overwhelmingly White.
- Is burning trash a good way to handle it? Waste incineration in 5 charts
- Fresno teen's air quality monitors vandalized
- Newsom Catches Heat for Using Climate Funds on Drinking Water Plan
- Chevron partners with biomethane developer to harvest, market gas from local dairy manure
- Hazmat situation near Dinuba, dozens exposed to pesticide
- A civil rights hero focuses on a new fight at the Capitol: clean drinking water
- Hurtado Announces $15M for Valley Drinking Water
- Why fighting for clean water with climate change money worries some California lawmakers
- Oregon Democrats rally behind cap-and-trade emissions plan
- Kern cow manure leads California's anti-climate change efforts
- Progress in the Fight for Safe Drinking Water
- In California, farm workers have a right to shade
- Pesticide Use Remains Near Record High in California, State Data Shows
- Pesticide use remains near record high in California, state data show
- California's Clean Drinking Water Problem
- Environmental justice group submits 90,000 comments opposing local fracking, drilling plan
- Bureau of Land Management looking for public comment on oil drilling
- With Updated Budget, Safe Drinking Water Fund Inches Closer To Reality
- Close to Home: Californians deserve safe drinking water
- California’s Biggest Secret? How Big Oil Dominates Public Discourse to Manipulate and Deceive
- City Of Fresno Supports Safe Drinking Water Fund – With A Catch
- New Bureau of Environmental Justice Seeking Funding and Enforcement Power?
- New Drilling and Fracking in California Will Hurt Latino Communities
- 'We couldn't even take showers': Californians with unsafe drinking water appeal for fixes
- Bill Restricting Oil Drilling Makes Progress
- California's long overlooked Central Valley holds new allure for 2020 candidates
- Environmental regulators: Put people before industry
- New Drilling and Fracking Will Hurt Latino Communities
- Guest editorial: All Californians deserve safe drinking water
May, 2019
- Commutes, jobs at stake in California's clean air battle with Trump
- 1 Million Californians use tainted water. Will state pass a clean-water tax?
- Safe drinking water can come at a price
- Sensors being deployed across Lost Hills will provide non-regulatory look at local air quality
- A long-awaited bill to fund drinking water systems in rural areas faces decision time
- A long-awaited bill to fund drinking water systems in rural areas faces decision time.
- Dolores Huerta condemns 'toxic taps,' supports proposed water tax at Valley ralley
- BLM stifles comments on fracking plan
- Legislation to mandate setbacks from oil drilling sites becomes two-year bill
- Senator Hurtado and U.S. Senator Feinstein Collaborate to Restore Clean Water Supply in California
- Valley Air District prepare for distribution boom in Kern County
- Public Hearing on Fracking in Valley Not Recorded - 'I Feel Like The Process Is Rigged'
- 1 Million acres of California public land could be leased for drilling
- Why California's Water Crisis Is So Difficult to Solve
- Central Valley Water Crisis Leaves Nearly 1.5 Million Without Clean Water
- They Grow the Nation’s Food, but They Can’t Drink the Water
- Outta here: Gone are the days of the Valley’s ‘pea-soup’ fog; there’s less pollution, too
- To improve the Valley’s poor air quality, focus must be to reduce vehicles on the road
- How to Use Zoning Laws to Reduce Pollution in Low-Income Communities
- Weakling Or Bully? The Battle Over The CEQA, The State’s Iconic Environmental Law
- A battle is brewing over CEQA, California's iconic environmental law
- Letter to the Editor: We don't need any more drilling
- Can Zoning for Environmental Justice Reverse a Century of Zoning Racism?
- Is Your City Smart About How to Protect You From Pollution?
- Which cities have concrete strategies for environmental justice?
- Why California's Water Crisis Is So Difficult to Solve
- Community Voices: Don't let what happened to my children happen to yours
- California defies Trump to ban pesticide linked to childhood brain damage
- Community Voices: Don’t let what happened to my children happen to yours
- Council approves several resolutions of support Tuesday evening
- California's governor looking to turn around region that suffers from persistent poverty
- California, Nation's Top User of Chlorpyrifos, Announces Ban on Brain-Damaging Pesticide
- Overnight Energy: Trump moves forward with rule on California drilling | House panel advances bill that resumes participation in Paris climate fund | Perry pressed on 'environmental justice' | 2020 Dem proposes climate corps
- Growers fear chlorpyrifos ban will hurt crops
- Californians must pitch in to make drinking water safe for everyone
- Newsom administration moves to ban chlorpyrifos pesticide, allocates $5.7 million for alternatives
- California defies Trump to ban pesticide linked to childhood brain damage
- How to Build the Green New Deal? Cities and States May Already Have Answers
- Advocates Challenge EPA For Leaving Weak Clean Air Protections in Place in Eight States
- Can Zoning for Environmental Justice Reverse a Century of Zoning Racism?
- Keep Fracking off public lands!
- An Economic Perspective on Environmental Justice
- Cal-EPA will begin the cancellation process of pesticide but falls short of protecting communities
- Psyops 101: How Big Oil Infiltrates Public Discourse to Manipulate & Deceive
- Trump California Fracking Plan Targets Over 1 Million Acres
- Newsom says he has a fresh approach to California’s longtime water woes
- American Lung Association issues new ranking, and guess where the nation's worst air quality is
- Cancer water? Unsafe drinking water puts 15,000 Californians at risk, study says
- L.A. County approves Tejon Ranch project, despite critics’ concern over the environment
- Environmental groups take their digs at fracking plan
April, 2019
- California Gov. Newsom facing new pressure from environmental groups to block drilling, fracking
- California Readies Clean Energy Financing Clearinghouse
- How Big Oil Dominates the Public Discourse to Manipulate and Decieve
- Air Quality Up but Still Poor for Central Valley Areas
- Will Newsom end oil drilling in California? Many environmentalists are betting yes
- Thick and Viscous: California Oil Production Among the Dirtiest in the Country
- SJ County’s air failing to meet American Lung Association standards
- Trump plan for fracking 1 million acres in California bad for Yosemite, opponents say
- National Parks Conservation Association ReportsTrump Administration Unveils Plan for More than 1.6 Million Acres in California, Including Near National Parks
- Trump plan for fracking 1 million acres in California bad for Yosemite, opponents say
- Trump Administration Plans To Open 1 Million Acres In California To Oil Drilling
- The California Public Utilities Commission Upholds Climate and Air Quality Requirements
- Activists Urging California Governor Newsom to Restrict Oil Drilling and Fracking
- Report: Fresno Valley rank No. 1 in U.S. for polluted air - receives letter 'F' failing grades
- On Earth Day, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara Refuses to Lead on Global Warming; Denies Petition to Require Insurers to Disclose the Fossil Fuel Projects They Insure, Says Consumer Watchdog
- Solution identified for East Orosi after 10 years of unsafe water
- Bill to Cut Oil and Gas Production Passes First Committee
- CAL EPA Environmental Justice Event in Stockton 4/29 Secretary Blumenfield and Stockton Mayor Tubbs to speak
- Legislation Would End Oil and Gas Production in Most of California
- A California town could finally get clean water – if its neighbor is willing to help
- Putting California's climate action plans to work for our communities
- California's New Enviro Chief Talks Alternative Pesticides, Recycling Reform and Trump ‘Upside-Down Days'
- 9 terrifying things that could be lurking in your tap water
- Both Sides of California Fracking Debate Await Newsom's Next Move
- Trump Administration Releases Plan to Open California to Oil Drilling
- Cows, almonds and asthma: San Joaquin Valley's agriculture and air issues
- Activists want California to ban fracking. What does Gov. Newsom want?
- Car traffic pollution could cause developmental delays in children, UC Merced study suggests
- Assemblyman Gray criticizes water board, says Delta-Bay Plan hurts struggling communities
- Senator Hurtado’s Legislation to Restore Access to Clean Water Advances to Appropriations Committee
- CA Air Resources Board Stonewalls on CA Data, Yet Sues Pres. Trump Over Emissions Data
- Protect the state’s environmental legacy from Trump’s onslaughts
- Clean Energy Benefits for Environmental Justice Communities: Support AB 961
- A California tax to clean up toxic drinking water has lawmakers jumpy
- Solar Power’s Benefits Don’t Shine Equally on Everyone
- The Foundations That Work on Environmental Health, with an Eye on Building Power
- Environmentalists Say They Were Shut Out of Talks on Building Housing Faster
March, 2019
- How California is Defying Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks
- California Governor's Plan to Create New Drinking Water Tax Faces Resistance
- California Already Has a Green New Deal. Here's How It Works
- Billionaire Environmentalist Tom Steyer Joins Eduardo Garcia to Fight for Clean Water Across California
- Valley Lawmakers Should Back New Housing Bills to Protect Low-Income Renters
- Fight the Power?
- San Joaquin Valley is One of the Least Healthy Places in California, Study Finds. Here’s why
- 3-year old Break for Medium-Sized CAFOs Gets Challenged in D.C. court
- Governor Newsom's Clean Water Tax A 'Moral Imperative' To Some, A Burden To Others
- Clearing the Air: Three Victories for the People
- Details of Newsom's Drinking Water Tax Plan Revealed
- Tackling the Water Crisis will be Just as Hard as it Sounds
- California Water Tax: Mixed Reactions in Valley Over Proposal
- Nunes, Costa, Cox Collide on Climate Change, yet they Represent the Same Fresno County Region
- Farmworker Supporters Believe Pesticide Violations Happening in Fresno, Tulare Counties
- Pesticides and Autism
- The U.S. Nail Salon Crisis
- Effort to Improve Fresno Air Quality Underway. Will District Blow off Committee’s Vote?
- New Campaign to ‘Unmask’ Fresno, Cut Air Pollution. ‘We are the Canary in the Coal Mine’
- Hear why Doctors Demand Clean Air in New Unmask Fresno Campaign
- California Is At The Vanguard Of Climate Change Policy. But Does The State Need A ‘Green New Deal’ Of Its Own?
- Green New Dealers, Look to California
- Gov. Newsom Calls for New Tap Tax on Californians with Clean Drinking Water
- De Leòn Joins USC Schwarzenegger Institute to Launch Statewide Fight Against Air Pollution
- Following Scathing Report, Air District’s Emissions Banking Program Faces Scrutiny
- Latino Life: Valley Residents Rally For Better Treatment
- Blacks, Hispanics Breathe More Pollution Than They Make
- Blacks, Hispanics Breathe More Pollution Than They Make
- Is the American Dream Drying Up in California’s Central Valley?
- Is the American Dream Drying Up in California’s Central Valley?
- Settlement Reached in California Oil Terminal Lawsuit
- Community Voices: What does 'safety' mean?
- It's Time for California to Get Out of the Oil Business
February, 2019
- One Nonprofit is Noticing a Spike in Asthma Diagnosis in Children
- Shafter to Benefit from State Community Air Protection Program
- Gov. Gavin Newsom Uses the Power of Appointments to Shape Government in his Image
- California Rolls Out $100 Million Low-income Solar Energy Program
- How Much Good can be Done in Five Years with $66 Million in Southwest Fresno?
- Walters: San Joaquin Valley — California’s Poor Stepchild?
- What's Gavin Newsom's Plan for Sustainable Water in California? We Still Have Little Idea
- We can’t Wait for Washington’s Green New Deal. California Needs Just Transition Now
- Air Pollution Greatly Impacts the Poor, Study Finds
- Face of Philanthropy: Nonprofits Whose Stories Touched Us
- Newsom Water Tax Offers a Phony Fix to a Moral Outrage
- Giving Neighborhoods a Voice: Environmental Justice Workshop Focuses on Practices, Resources Aimed at Helping Communities
- New Governor can See Past Coast All the Way to the Valley. That’s a Change.
- Workshop Focuses on Bill Addressing Environmental Justice
- Oilfield Wastewater Disposal Operation Near Bakersfield Closes Under Pressure from Regulators, Environmentalists
- Assemblymember Ash Kalra Introduces Bill to Make California a Leader in Protecting Tropical Forests
- Gov Newsom Names New Chair and New Member to Cali State Water Resources Control Board
- TRUE: 'More than a million Californians' don't have clean drinking water ... It could be higher
- California's Governor Warns Climate Change Pressuring Utilities
- Young Advocates in Delano are Getting Loud with Hopes to Better their Community
- Visalia Clean-water Advocate Laurel Firestone Appointed to State Water Board
- True: ‘More than a Million Californians’ don’t have Clean Drinking Water … It Could be Higher
- Warning Issued for Increased Risk of Respiratory Problems in Several Central Valley Counties
- California Wastewater Company Halts Disposal
- This Just In … Governor Newsom Designates Joaquin Esquivel as Chair of the State Water Board; Appoints Laurel Firestone from the Community Water Center to the Board
- Felicia Marcus Removed from State Water Board. ‘It was Time for a Change.’
- How Can the Green New Deal Deliver Environmental Justice?
- A Wastewater Company Halts Disposal At Two Sites Of Groundwater Contamination
- Editorial: California’s Contaminated Drinking Water is a Disgrace
- Californians Add Momentum to "Green New Deal"
- California Cases of Potentially Deadly “Valley Fever” are Starting to Soar
- Californians with Bad Water Ask for Help while Opposition Mounts to Newsom’s Proposed Tax
- Air quality Regulators Visit Lamont to Explore New Avenues Toward Cleaner Air
- New jobs or good planning? Fresno can have both in proposed industrial park
- Plan promises cleaner air by 2024
- Assembly Hearing Addresses Unsafe Drinking Water Issues
- California’s $5 Billion Clean-Air Plan Lacking One Thing: Money
- Slowing the Revolving Door + Early Childhood Unions + Clean H2O
- Governor Newsom’s Proposed Clean Water Tax Would Cost Santa Clarita $3.1 Million Per Year
- Do you reside in ‘disadvantaged community’?
- Planning for a Better Tomorrow
- Does New Air Pollution Plan Make Valley a Safer Place to Live? Don’t Hold your Breath
January, 2019
- Gov. Gavin Newsom Appoints Environmental Justice Warrior To Key Post
- Water workshop set for next weekend
- State approves Valley’s new clean air plan
- If the salmon-killing Delta Tunnels hasn’t been approved yet, why is California awarding contracts?
- California Approves Plan to Clean Up Central Valley's Toxic Air
- Smog gets bad quickly in the San Joaquin Valley. Images taken just days apart show the dramatic shift
- California construction workers, builders are near deal that could mean a flood of new building
- San Joaquin Valley’s air ranks among worst in U.S. This plan promises to improve it by 2024
- California approves New Clean Air Plan for the San Joaquin Valley
- Clean-air plan for San Joaquin Valley first to meet all federal standards for fine particle pollution; $5B in incentive funding required
- CLEAN WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN CALIFORNIA
- San Joaquin Valley Emission Reduction Credit Program Review
- CARB Aggressively Pursues Tougher NOx and PM Emissions Reductions
- State Air Officials Approve Much-Anticipated Plan To Improve Valley Air Quality
- What keeps families in one of the most polluted places in California?
- New York State Passes Sweeping Climate Legislation That Could Affect Nearly All Sectors
- Supervisors unanimously vote to cancel plan that would have brought crude oil trains through Kern
- State offering grants for renewable energy projects on AG land
- California’s New Governor Wants to Tax Drinking Water
- Kern County Derails Refinery Expansion Plan
- California Governor Wants to Tax Drinking Water
- Gavin Newsom needs a plan for California's endangered water supply
- Newsom budget calls for tax on drinking water
- California Governor Proposes Drinking Water Tax
- California Dem Gov. Gavin Newsom wheels out plan for new statewide tax on drinking water
- California’s unfulfilled promise on access to safe water
- California’s unfulfilled promise on access to safe water
- Governor Newsom Makes Safe Drinking Water Top State Priority
- Will Fresno put the brakes on an industrial park project? Some residents hope so
- Valley town with bad wells gets ‘surprise’ visit from Gov. Newsom — who wants tax on water
- Delano residents voice concerns, questions over water and soil contamination
- EMWD situation included in ACWA consolidation panel
- Community Engagement At Center Of New State Law On Air Protection
- The Story of California’s Two Incinerators
- State Attorney General Xavier Becerra will continue to fight for California
- Residue of banned pesticide found on California produce
- Group submits petitions with 1 million signatures urging Brown to phase out fossil fuels
- The “original sin” of air quality regulations is keeping communities polluted. But that’s changing.
- Fresno County’s failed housing, land use compliance is discriminatory, says suit
December, 2018
- Department of Pesticide Regulation finds illegal pesticides on our food
- Contamination forces idling of some eastside water wells
- Kern county leads the state with use of toxic pesticide, but plans to regulate it
- Dismissing science has put these California workers at risk
- California Supreme Court demands a do-over on Friant Ranch environmental analysis
- Transformative Climate Communities Grants Announced
- Teen’s data shows air quality is worse in south Fresno. He’s taking his work to schools
- RoundUp Ban in Fresno Unified
- Valley air board doing poor job of recognizing reality of climate change
- Steyer: Deregulation Is Killing People
- Fresno Unified will consider a ban on Roundup, citing cancer risks to staff and students
- Fresno Unified will consider a ban on Roundup, citing cancer risks to staff and students
- California’s cap-and-trade system may be too weak to do its job
- Public Utilities Commission Delivers $56 Million Boost To Disadvantaged Communities
- Coalition challenges USDA loan exemption
- Why Communities Across America are Pushing to Close Waste Incinerators
- Natural Resources Agency Finalizes Updates to the CEQA Guidelines
- On the Line: A Bright REDD+ Line
- Fracking: For Gavin Newsom To Be A California Climate Hero, He'll Have To Fight The Oil And Gas Industry, Unlike Jerry Brown
- Lawsuit challenges USDA’s medium CAFO exemptions
- Despite decades of cleanup, respiratory disease deaths plague California county
- Election results good news for air quality, climate
- In California’s Fertile Valley, Industry and Agriculture Hang Heavy in the Air
- Opinion: California’s Largest Landowner Can Achieve Environmental Justice
November, 2018
- Balancing act: How does Fresno foster job growth amid environmental concerns?
- California Gov. Jerry Brown Was A Climate Leader, But His Vision Had A Fatal Flaw
- Looking Back in Lemoore
- A Rush to Judgment: The Trump Administration is Taking Science Out of Air Quality Standards
- Sky Protectors' Win Against California's Carbon Colonialism
- Here’s How Many Months are Shaved off People’s Lives in Merced Due to Air Pollution
- Fresno Unified Suspends All Outdoor Activities Due to 'Very Unhealthy' Air Quality
- My turn: How Gavin Newsom can be the climate leader we need
- Big bucks being spent to clean Central Valley air
- Air pollution is shaving years from people’s lives. Where is it claiming the most?
- Air Quality Index Remains Unhealthy Across the Valley
- California’s misguided plan to ‘save’ tropical forests
- Indigenous forest guardians and environmental justice “sky protectors” rally in Sacramento to denounce tropical forest offsets
- Toxic taps abound in rural Tulare County, failed water bond brings no relief
- What the National Weather Service says is trapping fire smoke in the Central Valley
- California Environmental Law & Policy Update - November 2018 #2
- California Air and Climate, Vol. 5: CARB and San Joaquin Valley APCD Advance AB 617; Bay Area AQMD Targets Methane
- Prop. 3: California water projects bond measure goes down to defeat
- Oil industry spends millions to boost California Democrats
October, 2018
- U.C. Davis Law’s Environmental Law Center Releases Proposition 3 White Paper
- 2 visions for California criminal justice: Xavier Becerra, Steven Bailey contend for state attorney general
- Clean Air Victory for San Joaquin Valley, Yosemite and Sequoia Kings Canyon National Parks, National Parks Conservation Association Reports
- CARB approves $483M funding plan for clean transportation investments; 94% of funding from cap-and-trade
- Greening the Heart of the Central Valley
- Yes on Prop 3 for clean water and wetlands
- States Shift Focus To Pollution Victims As Trump Nears 2 Major Climate Rollbacks
- Valley Air District providing millions to help farmers buy newer, cleaner tractors
- State Officials, Valley Air Advocates Warn Against Proposed EPA Rule
- Capitol Journal: Water bond Proposition 3 has something for everyone — and that’s the problem
- Arsenic Symposium calls attention to water contamination issues
- CARB awards BNSF Railway $22.6M for clean technology pilot program; battery-electric locomotive
- Endorsement: Proposition 3 is the wrong water bond for California. Vote no
- Why a Farmworker’s Daughter Interrupted Governor Brown at the Global Climate Action Summit
- Hemet sues Dow Chemical and Shell Oil over contaminated drinking water
- California Community Solar Isn’t Working. SoCal Edison Wants to Redesign It
- How Will California’s Climate Ambitions Reshape Food and Agriculture?
- Fresno still ‘ground zero’ for terrible air. Why did Valley Air District blow off major hearing?
- Dirty Air And Disasters Sending Kids To The ER For Asthma
- Jerry Brown Didn’t Invite Grassroots Activists to His Climate Summit—They Came Anyway
- It’s time to close EPA’s harmful new air toxics loophole
- Environmental Justice Is Worth Fighting For
- The $8.9 Billion California Water Bond That Has Environmentalists Divided
- New California Laws Address Climate Change—Some Bills Fall Short
- 2018 Environmental Justice Voter Guide
- Proposition 3 will pay for a multitude of water needs
September, 2018
- Shafter to benefit from state Community Air Protection Program
- California counters Trump on car emissions standards, expands other climate rules
- Expanding Environmental Justice to Achieve a Just Transition
- Proposition 3 provides needed funds to improve Valley’s water infrastructure
- Water missed the main stage at the Global Climate Action Summit. It should be front and center.
- Bill protecting children from dangerous lead exposure approved by governor
- Conferences
- 2018 Ends and Chlorpyrifos Is Still Around
- A Victory in Arvin
- California's Looming Water Pollution Problem
- Where air pollution isn’t an abstraction
- Supervisors throw lifeline to struggling Lamont area
- Lawsuit Filed Suing The EPA Over Its Failure To Enforce Deadlines Covering State Air Quality Plans In The San Joaquin Valley And Nearby Yosemite, Sequoia And Kings Canyon National Parks
- Trump's Methane Rule Rollback Will Make More People Sick
- California’s Plan to Store Water Underground Could Risk Contamination
- Bad Air And Inadequate Data Prove An Unhealthy Mix
- Protesters fills streets near SF climate summit, object to 'market-based' solutions
- Fitzgerald: How WaterFix hurts the poor
- Environmental Justice Topic Of New Delta Report
- Tunnel foes shift focus to Delta’s most disadvantaged communities
- Restore the Delta to release environmental justice report
- Sunrun is bringing 100 megawatts of rooftop solar to low-income communities
- “Climate Capitalism Is Killing Our Communities”: Protesters Disrupt Gov. Brown’s SF Climate Summit
- Brown, Bloomberg (and their agenda) face protests at Climate Action Summit
- Hundreds march in SF against governor’s Global Climate Action Summit
- Jerry Brown Is Getting Heckled At His Own Climate Conference
- Big Oil's Black Mark on California's Climate Record
- Climate Change Isn’t Just Making It Difficult For Farmworkers. It’s Putting Their Lives In Danger.
- The Golden State Commits to Entirely Clean Energy
- California Mandate for 100% Clean Energy by 2045 Signed Into Law
- Jerry Brown signs 100% renewables bill to fight 'existential threat of climate change'
- Rise For Climate: 30,000 march in San Francisco urging Jerry Brown to end new state oil drilling
- Thousands march across US to protest environment crisis
- Rise for Climate: thousands march across US to protest environment crisis
- Rise for Climate: thousands march across US to protest environment crisis
- Heavy hitters on climate change converge on San Francisco, with Gov. Jerry Brown as host
- March for climate change: Huge gathering expected for Saturday rally in SF
- Valley Air District Seeks Public Comment On Plan To Improve Air Quality
August, 2018
- Noxious Mix of Smoke And Pollution Stresses Health In California's Heartland
- On final day, big decisions await California lawmakers
- New air pollution plan ready for public scrutiny. This is no time to breathe easy
- Clean energy nonprofit team selected to run California’s multifamily housing solar program
- With Global Climate Action Summit, Paris Comes to San Francisco
- Californians Need Safe Drinking Water Now
- California wants all of its electricity carbon-free. How’s that possible?
- New bill proposes to fix water quality for less than pennies on the dollar
- California's New Climate Plan Tackles Systemic Racism
- Jerry Brown’s Climate Legacy Is Still Being Decided
- Climate change will be deadlier, more destructive and costlier for California than previously believed, state warns
- California’s Can’t-Miss Chance to Provide Safe Drinking Water for All
- Bay Area officials call on Jerry Brown to phase out oil and gas production in California
- Clean drinking water proposal a good deal for Valley
- Seville and Yettem’s Measure Y would form sewer and water district, represent a shift from county control toward self governance
- Report concludes city water safe to drink
- One way to break oil dependence: Don't drill
- Safe Drinking Water for All
- Fresno County told to get more public input on growth plans
- Will California's Dirty Oil Business Soil Governor Jerry Brown's Climate Legacy?
- Safe Drinking Water for All
- California Lawmakers Eye Voluntary Tax To Pay For Central Valley Water Contamination
- Environmental justice: Cali oil and gas near communities of color & low income
- Air pollution from U.S. manufacturing lower; regulations among other factors credited
- Tax on California water revived to clean up drinking water – but it’s voluntary
- Grassroots air quality sensors spreading to local neighborhoods
- Trump admin has declared war on the environment
- Climate Defenders Mobilizing for 3rd People’s Climate March
- California’s biggest environmental challenges? Water. Climate change. Political hot air.
- The future of California’s grid waits on two bills
- In Parts Of California Blanketed With Wildfire Smoke, Breathing Is 'A Chore'
- Federal judicial panel bans the pesticide chlorpyrifos
- Bad air quality in Kern County: causes and effects
- Pollution Makes the Personal Political
- Air District needs to be clearer about health threats in Valley’s polluted air
- California Brings Benefits of Solar Power to Low-Income Residents
- Unhealthy air levels send athletes indoors, others looking for the right kind of mask
- California Groundwater Law Means Big Changes Above Ground, Too
- Healthy Soil is Ground Zero for Environmental Justice in Farm Communities
- 2018 California Voter Survey on National Monuments and Public Lands
- Next Article NIEHS road trip opens eyes to San Joaquin health challenges
July, 2018
- Green Upgrade: How California Is Pioneering ‘Energy Justice’
- 'Disheartening' heat, air conditions continue
- Trump Expected to End California's Car Emissions Power
- The Green Jobs Revolution Needs to Include All of Us
- Nuclear, noise concerns at Site 300 meeting
- Stockton tour an eye-opener for health agency
- Sinking land, poisoned water: the dark side of California's mega farms
- Arvin council passes oil and gas restrictions; will others follow?
- How California can make its cap-and-trade program more equitable
- Appeals court says state agency did not abuse its power in setting daily lead level limit
- Fresno, Clovis Plan To Mix Recycled Sewer Water For Drinking
- Community Pushing to Halt Further Hazardous Explosive Testing Near Tracy
- State officials dispute cap-and-trade study conclusions
- Local air quality monitoring program to be used statewide
- Judge grants state attorney general intervention in Fresno environmental justice lawsuit
- $10 million in cap-and-trade dollars awarded for environmental justice programs, including to native tribe in San Diego
- Former California lieutenant governor joins fight against Jerry Brown's big energy plan
- California Meets Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal Years Early
- California’s cap-and-trade air quality benefits go mostly out of state
- Blacks, Latinos live with state’s dirtiest air
- Central Valley Regional Transportation Plans Aim to Cut Emissions, Driving
- Cheap Sensors Are Democratizing Air-Quality Data
- Air officials ask Valley residents to consider negative health effects of fireworks
- Merced air is bad from fires up north. Fireworks will make it worse, experts say
- Where there's fire and fireworks, there's harmful smoke to breathe
- Clean energy coalition delivers 38,000 signatures supporting 100% clean energy to California legislature
- Bottled water tab at a California prison has hit $46,000 a month
June, 2018
- 109 elected officials tell Gov. Jerry Brown to get oil out of California
- State Air Quality Board and Transportation Commission to Meet, Explore Mutual Concerns
- Board of Supervisors accept $2.6 billion preliminary budget
- Citizen science gives sense of empowerment in Arvin, but there are concerns
- Dry wells, sinking land and fears of a global food crisis
- PREVIOUS Community Voices: More needs to be done to protect forests The Bakersfield Californian’s Aug. 1 story ("Forest Service … NEXT UP Community Voices: Being dead can sure make you appreciate life I am alive. Community Voices: Voice it today: What makes a community safe?
- CARB awards $20M in Cap-and-Trade funding to zero-emission transportation technology demos, H2 ferry, BEV locomotive
- Prop 70’s resounding defeat signals need for bolder climate leadership
- Senate Committee passes bill that would make state more dependent on dirty energy
- Overpumping Groundwater Linked To Arsenic Threat
- Coalition applauds California’s low-income rooftop solar investment
- California Takes Steps to Expand Solar Opportunities For Low-Income and Environmental Justice Communities
- Turlock woman to serve second term on State Water Board
- State Attorney General intervenes in lawsuit between City of Fresno and South-Central Residents
- Attorney General intervenes in southwest Fresno residents' lawsuit on industrial park
- The well is running dry, and we urgently need to act now to protect our future
- Who Owns California 2018: Big Oil and the Western States Petroleum Association Exposed
- Toxic Trap: Groundwater Overpumping Boosts Arsenic in California Aquifer
- Study links groundwater pumping to arsenic in aquifer
- The Nerve! Tulare County Supervisor Plagiarizes Rex Bohn’s Well-Considered Argument in Favor of Taxes on Drinking Water
- LA is Doing Water Better than Your City. Yes, That LA
- WORTH NOTING IN BUSINESS: Environmental, community groups appeal oil and gas ruling
- California drinking water tax dies in budget compromise
- How do we detoxify California's poison tap water? More democracy
- Primary Results Boost Environmental Justice in CA
- Satellite Data Can Predict Arsenic Contamination In Irrigation and Drinking Water: Study
- Lyft offers zero support for zero emission bill
- How California is bringing solar energy to low-income renters
- Assembly, Senate budget committees approve versions of SB 623, Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund
- California shift from annual to hourly GHG emissions tracking to focus reductions
- California election: Cap-and-trade spending gag tanks; other propositions pass statewide
- Overpumping of Central Valley groundwater has side effect: too much arsenic
- Hot weather marks start of Valley's ozone pollution season
- Mud No More: In Kern County, Lamont Residents Look Forward To Sidewalk Project
- Another Danger from Overpumping Groundwater: Arsenic
- Jerry Brown Wants To Tax Drinking Water To Fix California’s Busted Up Infrastructure
- Building a post-carbon future: California tries to lead — will the world follow?
- California must invest in cleaning up polluted communities
- Does your water district fail to comply with drinking water standards?
- 360,000 Californians have unsafe drinking water. Are you one of them?
- More Californians getting sick from pesticides, according to latest state report
- State and Health Groups Sue EPA to Protect Farmworker Health
May, 2018
- Prop. 70 will slow down California’s push toward a greener future
- Senate approves bill building climate equity for low income communities
- Farmworkers sue EPA over exposure to dangerous pesticides
- California Today, America Tomorrow
- Farmworkers sue EPA over exposure to dangerous pesticides
- CalRecycle disapproves industry plan to recycle carpet
- How a Foundation's Focus on Cities Made it a Leader in a Changing Environmental Movement
- State Agency Criticized for Failing to Protect Highest At-Risk Communities
- Calif. Water Tax Proposal Faces Opposition From Local Leaders
- Will Gov. Brown Plug the Dangerous Hole in California’s Climate Action?
- Air officials enthusiastic about winter air quality improvement — with a caveat
- Rex Bohn: All of us should pitch in for clean water
- Department of Pesticide Regulation receives poor grades on report
- Department of Pesticide Regulation receives poor grades on report
- Millions Spent to Clean Up California’s Diesel Trucks, but Is It Enough?
- Feds, state provide millions to clean up diesel trucks, tractors — but is it enough?
- ROBERT PRICE: 'Toxic cocktail' no more: Water Fund a step closer to reality
- Dozens demand clean drinking water, support from lawmakers
- California's New Solar Mandate Is For Rich White People
- Locals call on state lawmakers to fix toxic drinking water
- California pesticide use high, covers vast acreage
- California Considers Charge on Utility Bills to Create Safe Water Fund
- To help clean the Valley's air, plan would scrap dirty diesel trucks and tractors
- Community Voices: Address state’s drinking water crisis while protecting farming
- Despite Tight Restrictions, Open Ag Burning Increases In The Valley
- Despite Tight Restrictions, Open Ag Burning Increases In The Valley
April, 2018
- Pesticide Use Near Record High in California
- Millions coming to valley nonprofits to improve health outcomes, create equity
- Millions coming to valley nonprofits to improve health outcomes, create equity
- Pesticide Use Near Record High in California, Monterey Numbers Concerning
- Fresno City Urges Residents Come Learn about New Water Treatment Facility
- Californians Back Fee to Fix Statewide Drinking Water Problems
- Region ranks as 13th worst for ozone woes
- Californians Back Fee to Fix Statewide Drinking Water Problems
- Bakersfield ranked worst, second worst and third worst in three air quality rankings
- California has worst US air pollution: report
- Will Fresno ever pass this test? It's another flunking grade for air pollution
- California’s AB 617 — “Community Focused”
- California Attorney General Xavier Becerra Could Bring a Breath of Fresh Air
- Nourishment And Poison: Nitrogen’s Double Life
- Retooling CalEnviroScreen: Cumulative Pollution Burden and Race-Based Environmental Health Vulnerabilities in California
- BC hosts second annual Health and Social Justice Hackathon
- Give us clean water to drink, Valley residents tell governor candidates
- 75% of water boards have not held elections in four years
- How an isolated city is creating a climate-friendly ride-sharing service
- Valley voters' lives affected by air pollution, and they want change, survey finds
- 2018 Environmental Justice Voter Guide
- Survey: Majority of Valley Voter Favor Stricter Air Quality Regulation
- When it comes to California water, nothing is easy
- In bellwether decision, water board orders McKittrick oilfield disposal pond operator to monitor pollutants
- Calif. Nonprofit Taps Residents to Ensure Safe Drinking Water
- EPA Violated the Law by Failing to Investigate Civil Rights Complaints, Court Rules
March, 2018
- Report: Most Seats On Valley Water Boards Go Uncontested
- Valley Groups Divided On Support For Major Drinking Water Bill
- Climate change will have its Scopes Monkey Trial this week
- Clean drinking water isn’t a partisan issue
- Infrastructure could improve unsafe drinking water in San Joaquin Valley
- Around 100,000 San Joaquin Valley Residents Live Without Clean Water; Study Suggests Access Is Close
- Water and the public health crisis
- Thousands in the San Joaquin Valley Have Unsafe Drinking Water, But Clean Water Is Close
- A new generation of activists, born next to an oil refinery
- Community Water Center leaders get award
- Water now flowing to 750+ homes in East Porterville
February, 2018
- California’s attorney general puts polluters on notice with new environmental justice unit
- Attorney General Becerra opens environmental justice office
- California AG launches environmental justice unit focused on poorer communities
- In 46 States, People Of Color Deal With More Air Pollution Than White People Do, Study Finds
- In 46 States, People Of Color Deal With More Air Pollution Than White People Do, Study Finds
- New Environmental Justice Bureau aims to aggressively target environmental health
- This Is What It's Like To Live With Toxic Tap Water In California
- Cap-and-trade brings in money, despite Republican backlash
- California Regulators Adopts Plan to Lower Greenhouse Emissions
- Postcard From Sacramento: Residents Rally For A Healthy Valley
- 'Everybody wants things to change': San Joaquin Valley residents head to Sacramento, demanding lawmakers invest in their communities
- Phase II of water project complete
- How PurpleAir's Founder Put Air Quality Monitoring In The Hands Of The Public
- Researchers discover fertilizer is linked to air pollution
- UC Davis researchers find overuse of fertilizer on farms a key source of air pollution
- Nitrogen Fertilizer Found To Be A Significant Source of Air Pollution
- Study Points to Soil Fertilizer as the Likely Culprit of Central Valley Smog
January, 2018
- Researchers Just Found a Hidden Cause of California’s Smog Problem
- With Warming Temperatures, Air District Warns About Expected Pollution
- Gov. Brown wants 5 million electric cars on California's roads by 2030
- Climate Liability Cases ‘As American As Apple Pie,’ Experts Argue
- South Fresno industrial complex wins City Council approval
- What’s In Your Air? New Low-Cost Devices Monitor Valley Air Pollution
- Money on the way to help fund clean air projects across San Joaquin Valley
- California can’t wait any longer for clean water
- How California Can Move Towards Zero Emissions: Event Tomorrow
- As California Groundwater Regulation Unfolds, Some Feel Left Out
- Rapid response: What they’re saying about Jerry Brown’s California budget
- Proposed bill would ban new gas, diesel-powered cars in California by 2040
- California Leaders: Pass Clean Energy and Water Bills Now
- Global automakers resist California legislative push for Clean Cars Act
- EPA denies Clean Air Act petition for CAFOs
- California Accelerating Efforts to Reduce GHG Emissions
- Environmental Justice Grabs a Megaphone in the Climate Movement
- Joint Legislative Committee Discusses Future of Cap-and-Trade, Climate Policies
December, 2017
- Stagnant air flow and high particulate matter elevate air quality to level red
- California’s Scoping Plan: Setting a Path for Climate Targets
- EPA nixes bid to herd livestock under Clean Air Act
- After Pesticide Incidents Sicken Farmworkers, Advocates Push to Make Penalties Stronger
- These Central Valley Residents Designed Their Own Public Transit Line, and They’re Just Getting Started
- Air Resources Board Actually Talks About the Importance of Walking, Biking
- California appellate court reverses decision in Bakersfield oil refinery case
- CPUC Approves Major Solar Program For Multifamily Affordable Housing
- California creates new solar rebate program for low-income communities
- California Passes New Plan to Hit Climate Change Goals
- State water board hears concerns about regulation
- Portable Treatment Systems to Create First ‘Virtual Water District’
- Brown’s environmental mixed bag
- Ricardo Lara grew up in L.A.’s dumping grounds. Now he’s cleaning them up
November, 2017
- Environmental groups stop oil trains in their tracks
- Appeals Court blocks Kern County refinery expansion
- Expansion of Rosedale refinery halted by appeals court
- Refinery project involving Bakken crude dealt legal setback
- People Of Color Are More Likely To Be Exposed To Pollution Than White People
- Arvin air sample, and independent interpretation, Nov 20th 2017
- Climate change: Jerry Brown says he’s talked enough, wants to ‘get something done’
- 11,000+ schools across California have not tested water for lead
- New Reports Expose Racial and Economic Injustice, Ineffectiveness of Pollution Trading
- California’s 'Dirty Oil' Said as Environmentally Damaging as Canada Oilsands
- Lead, arsenic, copper found in drinking water at some NorCal schools
- As So-Called ‘Climate Leaders’ Tout Cap-and-Trade, New Report Details Racial and Economic Injustice of Pollution Trading Schemes
- The good news? Gov. Brown has world’s attention on climate. The bad news? There’s no time to lose
- Long-Awaited Rule Limiting Pesticides Use Near Children Not Enough, Say Critics
- California's New Rules on Pesticide Use
- New Project From Google Tracks San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Using Street View Cars
- California bans use of some farming pesticides near schools
- Smoke waves from climate-fueled wildfires cause lasting health problems
- How Water Agencies Are Tackling Inequity
October, 2017
- Rep. Raul Ruiz backs bill strengthening environmental protections for low-income communities
- Small Communities Can't Solve Toxic Water Problems Without Help
- Clean Energy Investments Act is signed into law
- Governor signs Bakersfield Assemblymember's bill to provide clean water to disadvantaged communities
- Senate Bill 623 could resurface when Assembly begins a new legislative session begins in January
- California Game Changers: Can We Ban Fracking?
- New Toolkit Connects City Planning and Environmental Justice
September, 2017
- Safe H2O a limited resource
- U.S. Climate Change Policy: Made in California
- Farmworkers’ Dilemma: Affordable Housing, but Undrinkable Water
- California Cap and Trade: Climate Problems Solved?
- Contaminated: Dirty Water In California's San Joaquin Valley
- Reporting Projects Tackle Big San Joaquin Valley Issues
- New report details just how toxic Trump’s environmental agenda has been thus far
- California rewrites the GOP’s climate playbook
- No-Go For California’s 100% Clean Energy Bill
- Sometimes Justice Means Having Air You Can Breathe
- State legislators focus on climate, immigration, roads
- US people of color still more likely to be exposed to pollution than white people
- Moms most exposed to pesticides more likely to have preterm babies
- Newsletter Cartoons Presentation Cartoons Business and Safety Cartoons by Ted Goff Sales and Financial Cartoons by Ted Goff Firefighters union supports water efficiency standards for California
- A bipartisan coalition holds press conference over drinking water standards and SB623
- Firefighters Join Utilities, Cities, Businesses and NGOs in Supporting Water Efficiency Standards for California
- Moms most exposed to pesticides more likely to have preterm babies
- Deep Drought Stirred Action on California’s Right To Water
- California’s Clean-Water-for-All Experiment Begins to Deliver
- California Mayors, City Officials Throw Support Behind 100% Clean Energy Bill
- Report outlines steps to implement pollution reduction program
- Farmers and environmental justice groups unite in support of clean drinking water fund
- California Water Policy conference sponsored by… the usual corporate suspects
- Billions are drinking water contaminated with plastic — and US has it the worst, study finds
- Farmers, Environmental Leaders Urge Legislature To Support Safe Drinking Water Bill
- Drinking Water Tax In The Works
- HSUS, other groups allege EPA failed to act on air pollution petition
August, 2017
- New solar project in works
- Bill could increase taxes, but provide safe water in Tulare County
- Why California’s Nitrate Problem Will Take Decades to Fix
- Groups battle over state water safety bill
- Climate Change Activists Not Deterred by California's Industry-Friendly Law
- Pesticides linked to birth abnormalities in major new study
- How much might 'the California Water Fix' cost LA?
- Researchers unravel the negative effects of pesticide exposure on birth outcomes
- Agricultural pesticide use and adverse birth outcomes in the San Joaquin Valley of California
- Local water officials object to proposed state ‘water tax’
- Proposed Tax For Safe Drinking Water Gets Support From Environmental, Agricultural Groups
- California Towns Tackle Nitrate Pollution With Local Solutions
- Opinion: Tax water to provide clean water to Californians whose supply is contaminated
- In Bakersfield, Complex Web Of Water Systems Makes Pollution Cleanup Difficult
- Bill Before California Legislature Could Help Supply Clean Water to All
- California cap-and-trade program generates more than $1 billion. Who gets the money?
- Clean water hookups resume
- Environmental racism and cap-and-trade in California
- Climate Lessons from California
- Oil, NatGas Supports California Cap-Trade Extension; Enviros Balk
- California water bill 'a huge deal' to combat dirty water
- Billionaire environmentalist’s latest fight is clean water for San Joaquin Valley
- Carbon Offsets Really Do Help Lower Emissions
- How did the air fare in cap-and-trade?
- Conflict and change mark the California water world
- California’s Plan to Tackle a Carcinogen Widespread in Water
- California’s Plan to Tackle a Carcinogen Widespread in Water
- Conservation, Environmental Justice, and Industry Lawsuit Asserts Water Boards Failed to Protect Clean Water from Agricultural Pollution
- How Much Drinking Water Has California Lost to Oil Industry Waste? No One Knows
- California’s Biggest Drought Success Story Came With a High Cost
- In California, Quest For Clean Drinking Water Often Delayed By Paperwork
July, 2017
- New drinking water regulation costly for Turlock
- This big carmaker will spend millions to push electric vehicles in Sacramento
- Unlikely Allies Push Bill to Solve California Drinking Water Crisis
- GOVERNOR BROWN SIGNS CRUCIAL CLEAN AIR BILL INTO LAW
- Governor signs bill targeting poor air quality
- 16 Cancer-Causing Contaminants Fill Our California Water, Study Finds
- Questions remain as Gov. Brown signs legislation to address neighborhood-level air pollution
- Questions remain as Gov. Brown signs legislation to address neighborhood-level air pollution
- Businesses spent millions lobbying before cap-and-trade vote
- Just How Far Can California Possibly Go on Climate?
- Cap-and-Trade Extension: Saving Face and Maybe the State’s Economy Too
- 3,000 People Will Die Because California Lawmakers Extended Cap-and-Trade
- ‘Insidious’ Drinking Water Carcinogen Has California Water Customers Facing Rate Hikes
- California Will Officially Keep Fighting Climate Change, Even If Trump Won’t
- The Road to Victory for Cap and Trade in California
- Schwarzenegger joins Jerry Brown as he extends climate bill
- California Extends and Strengthens Cap-and Trade Program
- What Jerry Brown’s Big Cap & Trade Win Means On Climate and the GOP
- California farm region plagued by dirty air looks to Trump
- Companion bill’ to cap-and-trade hits close to home
- California post-2020 GHG Regulation Debate: Compromise Passed Both Houses with a Two-Thirds Vote
- Clean Water Plan for Long-Suffering San Joaquin Valley Towns Derailed
- California lawmakers passed a landmark climate change bill — and environmental groups aren't happy about it
- California’s cap-and-trade — symbol or strategy?
- California’s cap-and-trade program is costly, controversial. But how does it work?
- What is this TCP and why is it going to raise Bakersfield city water rates?
- What the approved cap-and-trade package could mean to Central Valley residents
- California to vote on regulating toxic chemicals in water
- With Rare Bipartisan Climate Support, California Extends Its Cap-and-Trade Program
- California Sets Nation’s Toughest Tap Water Limit for Carcinogenic ‘Garbage’ Chemical
- California’s cap-and-trade gets mixed review from Citizens Climate Lobby
- California Lawmakers Extend Cap-and-Trade to 2030, with Republican Support
- Environmentalists stand divided on California cap-and-trade.
- California Bipartisan Vote Extends Cap-and-Trade Another Decade
- Latest California innovation: A Republican case for cap and trade
- California just got bipartisan support to extend its cap and trade program to 2030
- California lawmakers celebrate bipartisan cap-and-trade victory
- Cap-and-trade survives razor-thin votes in California Legislature
- California Legislature extends state's cap-and-trade program in rare bipartisan effort to address climate change
- From ARB Enviro Justice adviser: Extend cap-and-trade
- Big victory for Jerry Brown as Legislature backs climate-change program
- California Lawmakers Renew State’s Landmark Cap-And-Trade Program
- California Extends Climate Bill, Handing Gov. Jerry Brown a Victory
- As Gov. Jerry Brown pushes cap and trade, interest groups take up sides
- California Climate Crossroads: Gov. Brown is Supporting a Giveaway to Polluters
- California GOP Threaten to Derail Dems’ Cap-and-Trade Deal
- Contaminated water not an issue for students
- California Assembly Yanks Major Storage Bill, Pushing It to 2018
- Would Jerry Brown’s climate change law go too easy on Big Oil?
- Jerry Brown’s cap-and-trade bill passes Senate Environmental Quality Committee
- Cap-and-Trade Showdown: Will Big Oil Have the Last Word?
- Here's why progressives aren't thrilled with Gov. Brown's cap-and-trade plan
- Brown’s cap-and-trade bill exposes fault lines of state politics
- Private Domestic Well Owners Left Behind In California's Water Quality Push
- Lawmakers announce plan to extend California cap and trade
- Gov. Brown and lawmakers unveil proposal to extend California climate program
- Brown and lawmakers haggle over details of carbon market
- Water board sets standard on suspected contaminant
- Gov. Brown unveils plan for global climate summit, further undercutting Trump's agenda
- Cap-and-Trade Deal Could Woo GOP Support, Anger Environmentalists
- The California Drought Isn’t Over, It Just Went Underground
- Getting to the Roots of California’s Drinking Water Crisis
- Living in California’s San Joaquin Valley May Harm Your Health
- Systemic Failure: Why 1 Million Californians Lack Safe Drinking Water
- Kettleman hopes bottled water continues
- T is for Toxic: Danger Lurking in California School Drinking Fountains
- Video: Toxic Taps: Why Small California Communities Face Unsafe Water
June, 2017
- EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Documents Show Jerry Brown Giving Big Oil a Seat in Drafting Climate Policy
- Regulators Helped Oil-by-Rail Company Avoid Environmental Review, California Court Rules
- California's climate debate heats up behind closed doors as Gov. Brown pushes to extend cap and trade
- Climate goals: inside California's effort to overhaul its ambitious emissions plan
- The Energy 202: California scores its first big environmental victory of the Trump era
- Cancer-Causing Chemical TCP Plagues California Drinking Water
- State legislators tell Washington, DC – ‘Hands off California’s National Monuments’
- Foam Fight: As California balks at state ban, activists target local level
- Hearings Begin Over Kern County Ordinance That Allows 70,000 New Oil And Gas Wells
- Council votes in favor of SB 623
- Some US States, Cities Say ‘We Are Still In’ Paris Agreement
- California Hones Drinking Water Affordability Plan
- Watwerwise: Study urges school water tests
- Greenhouse emissions fall for another year in California
- Q&A: California needs more local carbon offsets
- Fifth District Holds CEQA Action Challenging Individual DOGGR Oil Well Permits Not Barred By Res Judicata Based On Prior Judgment Rendered On Mootness/Ripeness Grounds
- They Built It, But Couldn’t Afford To Run It—Clean Drinking Water Fight Focuses On Gaps In Funding
- Is California’s Legislature ultraliberal? Not so fast
- California climate debate rages as Brown raises his profile
- Climate change and bail-reform bills fall short in California Assembly
- Meet our new Community Organizer: Cesar G. Aguirre.
- Trump's rejection of Paris climate deal is 'insane' and 'deviant behavior,' California's Gov. Jerry Brown says
- America’s Toxic Prisons: The Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration
- California Senate Passes Bill Mandating 100% RPS
May, 2017
- 2045 Deadline for 100 Percent Green Energy Clears Calif. Senate
- Back to the shop: Why California is telling Volkswagen to retool spending plan
- State Democrats Have New Leverage in Effort to Curb Greenhouse Gases
- Gov. Brown tours polluted L.A. neighborhoods to see firsthand where progress lags
- A California regulator’s curious crusade to remake the Clean Air Act
- California forecasts robust growth in biodiesel, feedstock demand
- Pesticide that Trump's EPA refused to ban blamed for sickening farm workers
- 'Like a slow death': families fear pesticide poisoning after Trump reverses ban
- California Capitol focuses on environmental injustice—but will it lead to real results?
- Smoggy Central Valley Could Lose in Fight on US Pollution Standards
- Days After Calif. Farmworkers Sickened by Pesticide Drift, EPA Delays Safety Rule
- Trump's EPA Greenlights a Nasty Chemical. A Month Later, It Poisons a Bunch of Farmworkers.
- California set an ambitious goal for fighting global warming. Now comes the hard part
- Survey: Valley residents worried about water
- Oakhurst’s Water Is Radioactive, But Cleanup Is Right Around The Corner
- 1 in 5 adults in Valley lack clean water, 46 percent fear deportation
- Ten Years of California Climate Dividends Advocacy Leading to SB775
- Republicans in California say they're ready to work on climate change. Should Democrats take them seriously?
- Calif. Court Revives Fight Over Kern County Oil Wells
- California's water crisis is dangerous, just like Flint's. Will the state clean it up once and for all?
- Drinking Water Is A Human Right, But These Valley Residents Don’t Have It
- Drinking Water Is A Human Right, But These Valley Residents Don’t Have It
April, 2017
- Advancing Equitable Carbon Pricing in California
- This poor, Hispanic town in California has been fighting a local toxic waste dump for 35 years
- The fight against climate change in California gains an unlikely ally: Republicans
- California Proposes Stringent Cap On Toxic Chemical In Drinking Water
- Looking ahead: Solar energy for all
- U.C. Davis School of Law Launches New Water Justice Clinic
- California’s landmark climate-change program would also fight air pollution under proposal
- Is California’s Toxic Waste Regulator Letting Oversight Slide?
- Lung Association gives county air a failing grade
- Drought’s not over for everybody
- Potent carcinogen contaminated drinking water used by millions, says report
- New report finds cleaner air for many, but not all
- Valley air ranks among the worst nationwide, report says
- Climate Regulation in California: A State of Constant Change
- Cancer-Causing Chemical In Valley Water Is One Step Closer To Final Regulation
- Carbon Tax Next Target for California’s Disadvantaged Communities
- That $52-billion road bill just made California's next climate change move a heavy lift
- China’s bad air adds to the San Joaquin Valley’s problems, but the toxic nightmare is already here
- 8 Million Californians Have Been Drinking Polluted Water For Years
- $3 million coming to the valley; where will it go?
- Cancer-Causing Pesticide ‘Garbage’ Taints Tap Water for Millions in California
- California's Cap-and Trade Program Wins in Court, Program's Future Still Unclear
- Farmworkers ask Gov. Brown to ban pesticide in the state
- California’s ‘new’ environmentalism: Toxic air, tainted water driving climate-change debate
- Few take last-chance hook-up
March, 2017
- 7 ways California fights climate change
- Trump’s climate policy roll-back won’t impact Central Valley
- California Adopts Strict Rules for Methane Emissions
- California regulators launch new campaign against harmful climate pollutants
- East Porterville residents can connect to city water, no charge
- The utilities’ new electric transportation infrastructure
- Proposed EPA cuts punctuate hearing on Clean Air Act bill
- Lead Poisoning Among Children in Some California Locales Higher Than Flint
- Deadline looms for East Porterville water sign-ups
- In the battle over California climate policies, green projects are now in the hot seat
- Opponents warming to offset rule changes in California carbon market extension bill
- California Set to Regulate Carcinogen in Water for Decades
- Safe drinking water in disadvantaged communities
- 'A Tragedy': Hundreds of Thousands of California Residents Exposed to Contaminated Water
February, 2017
- Environmental Groups Say California's Climate Program Has Not Helped Them
- California has its own Flint, needs funding for safe drinking water
- Small community is one of many grappling with big water problems
- Lawmakers use threat of Trump to pitch carbon taxes
- Living in poverty, pollution can change everything – down to the molecular level
- California has its own Flint, needs funding for safe drinking water
- California Advocates Push For Contaminated Water Fund
- CARB Considers Alternatives to Cap-and-Trade
- County seeks to fill seats on air district citizens advisory committee
- Breathless in Bakersfield: is the worst air pollution in the US about to get worse?
- Capitol Journal California lawmakers are stuck on Trump, but there's a problem at home that needs attention: dirty water
- Agreement in place between composting facility, community groups
- Fearing worse, oil industry fights to save cap and trade
- CARB hires assistant executive officer for environmental justice
- Q. and A.: Xavier Becerra on Immigration, ‘Calexit’ and More
- Lawmakers push for ‘environmental justice’ in California carbon reduction policy
- How will California battle climate change? A new proposal revs up debate over cap-and-trade program
- California lawmakers hope new climate change proposal will help low-income communities harmed by pollution
- 'Children under stress': Valley kids among state's unhealthiest
- Advocates urge permanent solution to unsafe drinking water
- Clean water advocates have a solution that involves your water bill
- Is California climate law worsening pollution in communities of color?
- State is sued over cancer-causing fumigant
January, 2017
- CARB Appoints First Environmental Justice Liaison
- Worrying and still waiting for safe drinking water after cancer claimed her daughter
- Fresno Takes First Step Toward Ridding Water Of Toxic 1,2,3-TCP
- CARB Appoints First Environmental Justice Liaison
- Study Finds Two Groups Hardest Hit by California’s Drought
- State money arrives to start a new water system in a drought-stricken Valley town
- Assemblymember Cervantes Introduces Bill to Restructure California Transportation Commission – AB179
- New Calif. Carbon Trading Legislation Answers Big Oil's Call to Continue Business As Usual
- State expands pesticide monitoring network
- State To Require Water Systems To Test School Water For Lead
- Schools in Lindsay, San Joaquin added to pesticide monitoring list
- Big Oil Lobbyist Backs 'Well-Designed' California Carbon Trading Program
- Clean Drinking Water Acknowledged In State Budget Proposal
- Low-Income Communities Hit Hardest By Drought, Says Report
- Smoking Polluters: Visible Emissions and Citizen Science in the Valley
- New bill for safe drinking water in rural schools
- CCA market could rebound, despite lingering concerns
December, 2016
- 'They’re Not Going to Be Able to Ignore This Entire City Standing Together'
- Oil companies face deadline to stop polluting California groundwater
- Waterwise: Community Water Center premiers video
- Help us bring back in 2017 the “Roots of Resistance” conference!
- From the archives: 'Garbage' chemical TCP threatens Valley Water
- Members sought for Environmental Justice Advisory Group
- Valley air district seeks Merced County advisory group member
- The thousands of U.S. locales where lead poisoning is worse than in Flint
- Changing Huron for the Better
- Environmental Justice Enters Its Age of Anxiety
- Toxic water plagues rural California
- 4 million Americans could be drinking toxic water and would never know
- County moves toward well ordinance
- ACLU: Valley children – especially Latinos – are most vulnerable to pesticides near schools
- Tulare County Considers Emergency Groundwater Ordinance
- O’Reilly Auto Parts to pay $9.86 million settlement for mishandling hazardous waste
- State air board releases 'ambitious' greenhouse gas emissions reduction plan
- “Civic Engagement and Social Justice in the Central Valley: Environmental Justice, Legal Advocacy, and Academic Research Perspectives”
- Kettleman water system hearing next week
November, 2016
October, 2016
- Halliburton ordered to cut air pollution near schools
- State letter to farmers demands water to fix nitrate problem
- California's new climate change laws almost didn't happen this year. Here's how lawmakers pulled it off.
- Affordable housing projects win $31 million in greenhouse gas funds
- Is Cap and Trade Failing Low Income and Minority Communities?
- State sets pesticide limits
- Legislative Update: Six New California Laws Impacting Water
September, 2016
- Cap and degrade: State’s landmark emissions program allowed rich companies to pollute more
- Climate fight targeting cows may reshape California dairies
- Official: Giant solar proposal poised for growth
- Students Learn RAAN = Healthy Breathing
- In California's farm belt, 'pesticide drift' has residents worried about their health
- CAFO air quality lawsuit dismissed
- States Tailor Their Message to Spread Environmental Justice
- California climate funds can lift disavantaged communities: Guest commentary
- Farmers say, ‘No apologies,’ as well drilling hits record levels in San Joaquin Valley
- New Report Slams EPA For “Environmental Racism” In Many Poor Communities
- Has a decade of Golden State climate diplomacy made a difference?
- South Valley water coalitions to study nitrate leaching from farms
- Dairy industry weighs California's new regulations
- 'Erin Brockovich' Carcinogen in Tap Water of more than 200 Million Americans
- Nitrates poison water in California's Central Valley
- CA GOV. BROWN SIGNS NATION'S TOUGHEST SUPER POLLUTANT RESTRICTIONS LAW
- District seeks member for Environmental Justice Advisory Group
- Meet the Minds: 10 Things Max Gomberg Wants For California Water
- Cap-and-trade? Not so great if you are black or brown
- Governor Brown Signs Legislation to Support Communities Impacted by Climate Change
- The Racial Justice Flaws in California's Climate Bill
- Brown Signs $900M Environmental Package
- Governor's Office's Statement On Bill Signing
- Governor signs climate change bills in Fresno
- Gov. Brown approves $900 million for environmental programs
- New Report Highlights Equity Flaws in California’s Cap-and-Trade Program
- Report outlines how to make equity part of California’s low-carbon economy
- Report: For Best Results, Address Equity and Climate Change Together
- Report lists arsenic violations at schools, other facilities in Kings
- Too many California towns have arsenic in tap water, group says
- Drinking Water for 55,000 Californians has Illegal Levels of Arsenic
- Harvest dust can drive you nuts, but pales next to car exhaust
- Embrace equity to win on climate goals
- Bad air quality affecting residents
- State Takes Steps To Get Clean Water To Kettleman City
- Central Valley to gather to address racial, economic and environmental inequalities
- California is about to find out what a truly radical climate policy looks like
- Governor Brown Signs Historic Climate Change Legislation
- Meeting with state and local agencies a step in the right direction to bring clean water to Kettleman City residents
- Environmentalists, state settle differences over hazardous waste site
- Could California’s drought make residents sick?
- California Or A Third World Country?
- Defining Environmental Justice Communities: Using CalEnviroScreen in State Policy
August, 2016
- Kettleman City Residents get Answers to Questions about Construction of Water Treatment Plant
- Legislature Must Decide the Fate of Three Environmental Justice Bills Before Midnight
- Kettleman City Residents get Answers to Questions about Construction of Water Treatment Plant
- An interview with Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate activist who might run for governor of California
- California and EPA Poised to Expand Pollution of Potential Drinking Water Reserves
- Analysts See Role For Waste Plants In Beating California's Nitrates Problem
- Experts Weigh In: California’s Biggest Water Policy Priorities
- California Doubles Down On Green Economy, But Kicks Cap-And-Trade Down The Road
- California's new climate legislation hailed as a breakthrough
- Peter Gleick: Why California’s Current Drought Is Different
- With Water, One Era Ends And Another Begins In East Porterville
- 'An exercise in threading the needle': Lawmakers perform balancing act to move climate legislation forward
- A big question complicating the climate debate: Are current policies only benefiting the rich?
- Schools prepare for bad air
- California lawmakers propose spending plan for $1.2B in cap-and-trade funds
- L.A. County sanitation district embroiled in fight over human-waste facility
- Family rejoices at ‘regular’ water flowing from the tap
- Running Water Arrives In Drought-Addled East Porterville
- Historic agreement a victory for environmental justice groups, Kettleman City residents
- Kettleman City residents may get more help with air and water pollution issues
- California farm communities pay price for decades of fertilizer use
- State, Kettleman City advocates settle dispute over toxic waste landfill
- Selenium still poisons Valley, Delta, nation
- White House Honors Tulare County Water Advocate
- Valley must fight to remain a hub for clean fuels jobs
- California May Put Climate Plan to a Public Vote
- A $1 billion plan to provide integrated solar energy for low-income renters
- Kettleman City’s Contaminated Drinking Water Found At I-5 Fast Food Stops
July, 2016
- Bakersfield residents and representatives discuss the California Climate Plan Thursday
- "Perfect Storm of Pollution" puts Valley in Danger
- Oilfield water handling to change under settlement agreement
- Waterwise: Supervisors should take overdraft water position
- County looking at well drilling ordinance
- Agencies offer grants, loans for water projects
- California State Water Board holds meeting in Bakersfield about high levels of 1,2,3 TCP in the wate
- What is new at CCEJN?
- Time to Set a Legal Limit for Carcinogen Found in Kern’s Water
- Learn more about pesticide byproduct found in Valley drinking water
- California To Set Legal Limit On Probable Carcinogen In Water
- Biomass plants make pitch for dead trees to produce electricity
- South Valley Woman Headed to Washington D.C. to be Honored for being a Champion for Change
- California to Extend Cap-and-Trade System to 2050
- Sacramento rally targets pesticide use near schools
- EPA inaction sends emissions plan back to drawing board
- CA Farmworkers' Advocates Rally Against Pesticides Near Schools
- Weekend News Briefs from CVBT
- Auditor should find out why return on cap-and-trade is so pathetic
- Activists Unhappy With Air District Petition To Feds
- Activists Unhappy With Air District Petition To Feds
- Brand, Perea Exchange Barbs Over Rusty Fresno Water
June, 2016
- Environmental studies stall Kettleman City water plant construction
- California regulators voice support for cap and trade program
- Valley air officials seeking federal support for cleaner air
- Excessive levels of carcinogen 1,2,3 TCP found in Kern County water
- Valley air district seeks stricter truck, train regulations
- Excessive levels of carcinogen 1,2,3 TCP found in Kern County water
- Valley air officials demand more from EPA than stricter standards
- Should California limit the number of small, new water systems?
- Should state limit small water agencies?
- Obamas' Yosemite Visit Prompts Call for Cultural Diversity in Parks
- Is Drought Causing a Health Crisis in California?
- Is Drought Causing a Health Crisis in California?
- California's cap-and-trade program faces daunting hurdles to avoid collapse
- Bill Would Ban New Wells in Parts of California
- Bernie Sanders On State Of San Joaquin Water: 'Unbelievable'
- Why the EPA fails to enforce the Civil Rights Act
- Why the EPA fails to enforce the Civil Rights Act
- Residents in Tulare County community open taps to clean water
- Oil money flows for black and Latino Democrats
May, 2016
- Board of Supervisors approves Kettleman City survey
- Board of Supervisors approves Kettleman City survey
- The Flint of California
- Clean drinking water bill advances
- Behind Bars on Polluted Land
- Board of supervisors to discuss Kettleman City survey
- Water, Water Still Is Scarce, Except for California's Rich
- California Town’s Water Tainted With Arsenic For Decades
- Part II: California Town’s Water Tainted With Arsenic For Decades
- New hazmat policy could benefit Kings
- California Town’s Water Tainted With Arsenic For Many Years
- Life in San Joaquin valley, the place with the worst air pollution in America
- Carbon Markets: How America's regions learned from Europe's mistakes
- Summit to address park development in San Joaquin Valley
- California Legislative Black Caucus unveils 2016-17 State budget priorities
- Sludge composting plant starts up
- Pesticide program warns schools before spraying
- Children in Farm Communities Pay a Steep Price for the Food We Eat
- The wells have run dry in this California town, so why is a $1.2-million water system untapped?
- Unknown, Unregulated, Undrinkable
- California green energy bills target gas storage safety, protecting low-income communities
- CA Progressive Groups Launch "Building the California Dream Alliance"
- San Joaquin Valley achieves decades-old ozone standard
- San Joaquin Valley achieves decades-old ozone standard
- California’s urban residents have been left behind by 2006 parks measure
- California ponders expanding cap and trade to Brazil
- No excuses for failing air quality grades; let’s move forward
- Behind Bars on Polluted Land
April, 2016
- Taking the pulse of Kings County
- Tiny Central Valley Community Tests California’s Clean-Water Law
- Cleaning the Valley’s air with incentives for ag
- Stanislaus County fails in State of Air report
- It's time for the California Air Resources Board to focus on low-income areas, lawmakers say
- Climate change is making us sick
- Valley officials: Lung Association report is off
- Valley has ‘F’ air, Lung Association says; data outdated, locals say
- Fracking Exec Reportedly Admits Targeting the Poor, Because They Don’t Have ‘The Money To Fight’
- Greens Fight Expanded Refining in SoCal
- Democratic reps call for probe of deal over toxic-runoff cleanup
- Environmentalists sue to halt refinery project observers call moot
- Bill to protect state’s aquifers, groundwater moves forward
- Lemoore approves water sale
- Air district accepting applications for open seat
- California’s REDD move could outpace Paris Agreement, justice groups press for delays
- AB 32 EJAC listens to concerns
- Groups plan rally for better water in Arvin
- Victory in Kern County
March, 2016
- State Orders Tulare to pipe clean water to Matheny Tract Homes
- Drought Hurts Air Quality
- Water Brings Hope
- Flint’s not the only place where the drinking water’s unsafe
- María Hinojosa talks climate change in Sacramento
- “Keep REDD out of California!” says the California Environmental Justice Alliance
- Pesticide use in Fresno County drops due to drought, fallowed fields
- Valley legislators need to improve on environmental justice
- Schools prepare for poor air quality
- Will Human Right to Water Resolution Really Help?
- UC Merced seminar seeks ‘rural justice’
- Like Flint, water in California's Central Valley unsafe, causing health problems
- Pits of drilling waste threaten water, air safety, report charges
- Farmers look to recycling to rid themselves of old almond trees
- There’s a Cancer-Causing Chemical in My Drinking Water, But California Isn’t Regulating It
- Massachusetts company submits HECA proposal days ahead of state meeting
- Millions lack access to clean drinking water
February, 2016
- Combinación de pesticidas pudiera causar doble impacto en la salud
- Valley parents, activists ask state to look at interaction of pesticides as health hazard
- UCLA Study Said Three Pesticides Commonly Used in California Agriculture Pose a Serious Health Risk
- CLEAN POWER PLAN: Inside the uphill battle against carbon trading
- Pesticide mixtures may increase health risks but are still unregulated by California, UCLA report says
- Here’s how California could be missing pesticides’ cancer risk
- 8 Realities in California Governor Brown Doesn’t Want You to Know
- EPA reaches settlement with Kings County and a company for pesticide violations
January, 2016
- Undermining Public Health with Pollution Credits
- Flint is part of a pattern: 7 toxic assaults on communities of color
- AM Alert: Last chance for floor votes on 2015 bills
- Preventing CAFO Water Pollution Not An EPA Priority
- 9 Californians who play key roles in water policy
- An ugly truth behind black gold: How racial injustices are behind California's fight against Big Oil
- Farms Using Oilfield Wastewater Under Review for Food Safety
December, 2015
- Solar is in, biomass energy is out—and farmers are struggling to dispose of woody waste
- Big Oil run amok in Kern County
- What this California department’s racist emails could mean for the communities it’s supposed to protect
- Residents Of One Central California Town Ordered To Boil Drinking Water
- Guest commentary: Environmental justice takes place in world leadership
- Oil Groups Paid $10 Million, And All They Got Was A 20-Year Pass To Frack This County
- Racist Emails Raise Doubts over Toxics Agency's Management
- Toxics agency chief condemns racially charged emails
- 2 senior state scientists disciplined over racially-charged emails
- Uranium Contaminates Water Across California’s Central Valley
- Fear at the tap: Uranium contaminates water in the West
- Uranium Contaminates Water Across California’s Central Valley
- Uranium contaminates Valley water
- Environmental justice scores a win in California carbon policy
- All Californians deserve clean, safe drinking water
- Valley fertilizer company fined over $1 million for PSD violations
- Common Pesticides Linked to Decreased Lung Function in Children
- This common farm pesticide could be damaging the lungs of young children
- Pesticides as bad for kids' lungs as cigarette smoke, study says
November, 2015
- Obama at COP21: Climate Change 'Growing Threat' to All Countries; Latinos Worried about Climate
- Biomass future a burning problem for farmers
- California Climate and Health, Part II: It’s in the Water
- Funds will help clean Valley air
- Kern County Residents Fast Against Plan to Fast Track Fracking
- Big Oil dirties California’s politics and air
- Clean power takes off with 'breakthrough' into low-income communities
October, 2015
- The anti-oil activists are coming!
- Smoky September clouds San Joaquin Valley clean-air record
- For California's Drought Towns, the Next Challenge Is Growth
- EPA's Environmental Justice Plan Would Perpetuate Racism, Opponents Say
- New EPA smog rules will help you breathe easier but at a price
- Poor deserve piece of solar energy pie, too
- Why California's Poorest Towns Still Can't Connect to Water
- California just signed a landmark bill to tackle climate change
- Valley will struggle with tough, new air standard
- Before California's Drought, a Century of Disparity
- Before California's Drought, a Century of Disparity
September, 2015
- California legislature delivers environmental justice for poor communities
- California Approves Nitrate Removal Technology for Drinking Water Treatment
- In California, People of Color Are Hit Hardest By Environmental Hazards
- SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Push to change Clean Air Act Air Pollution Control District wants revision
- Online screening tool reveals racial disparities in environmental health hazards
- Study shows racial disparities in environmental health hazards
- Garbage Going Greener
- CCEJN at UC, Santa Barabara. EJ organizing in communities
- Wildfire Smoke, Heat Creates Unhealthy Air In San Joaquin
- Tracy business settles with EPA in handling hazardous wastes
- California cap-and-trade paying off outside state, but not in Valley Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/news/business/agriculture/article34603896.html#storylink=cpy
- Fires in West Have Residents Gasping on the Soot Left Behind
- CalEnviroScreen Debate Signals New Focus on Environmental Justice in State Policy
- Environmental racism persists, and the EPA is one reason why
- West Side cities slapped for cancer-causing agent in tap water
- Solve Air Pollution with 21st Century Tech: Environmental Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied
August, 2015
- Californians battle for far-reaching climate legislation
- Overwhelming Majority of California Latino Voters Want Climate Action Now
- Why California Polluters Pay a Pennsylvania Pig Farmer to Curb Emissions
- In California, an Unsatisfying Settlement in Pesticide-Spray Discrimination Case
- Wells in Tulare County continuing to fail
July, 2015
- California's Drought Is So Bad That Thousands Are Living Without Running Water
- New video series uses humor to call for California to ban fracking
- Brown Convenes Panel To Review Study on Health Effects of Fracking
- California communities mount protests against fracking, oil drilling
- Burn Notice Biomass is coming under fire for polluting the air and threatening wild forests. But is the controversy warranted?
- A Green Neighborhood Watch Targets Polluters in Low-Income Communities
- Study finds contaminants in California public-water supplies
- Residents use video and other tech effectively to report environmental hazards
- California Suspends Syngas Carbon Capture Project For Six Months
- Fracking Waste Left In Open Unlined Pits Threatens California Drinking Water, New Study Analyzes California Fracking
- How Oil Trains Drive Environmental Racism
- Energy Commission Grants Hydrogen Energy California Suspension, Denies Request to Terminate Power Plant Project
- California’s rural poor hit hardest as massive drought makes remaining water toxic
- New maps, court rulings show disparate impact of environmental injustice
- Avenal power plant idea appears dead
June, 2015
- State Toxic Substances Watchdog Gets a Watchdog
- Outside panel will oversee California's troubled toxic waste regulator
- Revision to CA Pollution Rules Upheld by Ninth
- Association of Irritated Residents v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- BREAKING: Enviro groups say climate plan should drop biomass plants
- Pope blasts California’s cap-and-trade system
- Report on pesticides near Shafter school
- California kids may not have to worry about pesticides at school anymore
- Pesticide use near schools triggers a push for statewide regulations
- EPA 'environmental justice' map highlights California's pollution ills
- Farmers Say Oil Firms & Governor Brown Colluded to Pollute Aquifer
- Farmers Say Oil Firms & Governor Brown Colluded to Pollute Aquifer
May, 2015
- Diversity Is the Lifeline for the Future of the Climate Movement
- The Environmental Justice Legacy of the United Farm Workers of America: Stories from the Birthplace of Industrial Agriculture
- Visalia activist joins state Water Commission
- Just 5 Weeks from Finding Out What’s in the Oil Wastewater Used on Crops
- Program gets solar power to residents in struggling Fresno neighborhoods
- Program gets solar power to residents in struggling Fresno neighborhoods
- What's In The Water? Some Kern County Farmers Are Irrigating With Oil Wastewater
- How Growth in Dairy Is Affecting the Environment
April, 2015
- Gasp! Valley among most polluted
- Report: Hanford air pollution among nation's worst — again
- New report, same old story: Bakersfield has bad air quality
- California Cities Rank High On ‘Unhealthy Air’ Report
- Earth Day 2015: 45 Years After First Celebration, Big Environmental Groups Connecting With Latinos
- More than 1 million Californians don’t have reliable access to clean water
March, 2015
- Some of Central Valley’s air pollution imported from Asia
- Spike In California Air Pollution Brings Reminder Of Bad Old Days
- Decline of Valley biomass plants a threat to ag
- As water dwindles, lawmakers seek access to confidential well logs
- Kettleman City activists charge racial discrimination in toxic dump approval
- State accused of racial discrimination by Kettleman City groups
- Maria Herrera is third Valley member on water commission
- Environmentalists Launch Two Legal Campaigns Against Big Oil
- 'We Are Next': California Looks to Follow New York's Fracking Ban
- Well went dry last Easter, but one Kingsburg man gets blessed with new water supply
- Pesticide Drift and the Politics of Scale in California's Central Valley
- Odor complaint linked to remnants of 100-year-old Chevron oil reservoir
- Sierra Club formally asks CEC to terminate HECA permit application
February, 2015
- Oil producers run illegal disposal pits
- Hundreds of illicit oil wastewater pits found in Kern County
- Website to offer neighborhood-level air data
- In California’s Oil Patch, Activists Fight New Crude-By-Rail Terminal
- Trash-burning plant protected in California climate fights
- No HSR, more water, road funding top county wish list
- Greens Fight Expansion of SoCal Oil-Rail Project
- California's Drought Worsens Uranium Pollution In Valley Wells
- For EPA’s big meeting on ozone, why Sacramento? Fresno is heart of nation’s ozone problem
- Turlock council to examine water issues
- State let oil companies taint drinkable water in Central Valley
January, 2015
- Just how much is Asia's ozone to blame for bad air in the U.S.?
- State's toxic releases post 50% gain, EPA says
- Coalition brings clean drinking water to rural Kern County
- Dairies face environmental court challenges
- Environmental lawsuit targets oil-by-train terminal near Taft
- Critical water bottle filling stations in Lamont for South Kern County residents
- Groups Sue EPA Seeking Livestock Farm Air Quality Standards
- California Engages in Mature Debate Over Spending of Cap-and-Trade Funds
- Fresno foundation awards $275k in smart growth, environmental grants
- Dirty Water Is Leading to Obesity and Diabetes in California
- California’s ‘vomiting gas’ pesticide use rose 650 percent in 2 decades
- California debuts nation's strictest rules on pesticide
- EPA to tighten air pollution rules on oil industry
- Valley farmers face state clampdown on fumigant use
- In California's Poorest Towns, Tap Water's Legacy Is Toxic for Latinos
- State puts limits on a pesticide used for strawberries, other crops
- Avenal could get more water amid drought
- Drought threatens to push small Valley cities to the brink
- Particles fill foggy Valley air, making breathing dangerous
- Great weather but awful air
- Valley’s poor towns need public help to drink healthy water, breathe clean air, EPA leader says
December, 2014
- California drought brings smaller harvests, more hunger among farmworkers
- EPA’s tougher smog rules to get Sacramento airing
- Push at California climate confab to include workers in leadership
- Foundation awarding $275K for environmental projects
- Local environmental groups receive funds for projects
- Nurses join tour of fracking sites hosted by Movement Generation
- California’s Drought Is So Bad That Some Communities Are Trucking In Their Water
- Drought dries rural wells, residents carry water in buckets
- Residents want reassurance another gas leak will not occur in Arvin
- New air standard nationwide, but Valley still heart of ozone harm in U.S.
November, 2014
- EPA wants tougher anti-smog rules
- EPA proposes more stringent smog standard, will impact San Joaquin Valley
- New air standard forces more Valley cleanup
- Bad chemistry took over in Valley’s terrible air siege
- Telecom giant AT&T penalized $51.8 million for hazardous waste violations
- Hazards of Open Pits for Storing Wastewater From Fracking Is Focus of New Study
- Frackers are terrorizing school kids in California
- Fracking the Poor
- Environmental group pushes to close oil wastewater sumps
- Thousands Of California Kids Attend School Near Fracking — And Most Of Them Are Minorities
- Central Valley Remembers a Crusader for Rural Health
- Lawsuit takes aim at Kern County oil drilling permits
- Drought and Warm Temperatures Cause Unusual Spike in Central Valley Air Pollution
- Chevron fined $329,700 by ARB for sales of illegal gasoline
- Earth Log: Are there lessons in November’s awful air?
- Heat, drought worsen smog in California, stalling decades of progress
- Sunday Memorial Set for Advocate, Loving Mother, Grandmother
- Clovis and Bakersfield, with dirtiest of dirty air, complicate Valley’s pollution battle
- Earlimart Anti-Pesticide Advocate Teresa De Anda Remembered As Fearless Leader
- Much of San Joaquin can apply for cap-and-trade funds
- Much of San Joaquin can apply for cap-and-trade funds
October, 2014
- Fresno, Valley in line for greenhouse-gas funding
- San Joaquin Valley low income communities to receive cap-and-trade investments
- New California Department of Toxic Substances Control head appointed
- Cal/EPA Enviornmental Justice Grants
- Unsafe Drinking Water Adds to California's Drought Misery
- Oil companies’ fracking fines go to Visalia-based water center
- EPA Gives CoCal's Filthy Air a Pass, Greens Say
- Groups sue EPA over failure to reduce air pollution
- Counties Vie for ‘Disadvantaged’ Cap-and-Trade Bucks
- State rejects appeal over Kettleman Hills expansion
- Greens Fight SoCal Tar Sands Oil Project
- EPA sends California $183 million for more water fixes
September, 2014
August, 2014
June, 2014
- Activists say California fighting pollution globally but not locally
- Activists say California fighting pollution globally but not locally
- MONDAY Q&A: Modesto nonprofit takes on social, environmental issues
- Leadership of controversial California water program shifts
- Leadership of controversial California water program shifts
- It Reeks of Injustice in Wasco, CA: A Latino Barrio Gets the Short End of the Pollution Stick, Again
May, 2014
- Delta tunnel plan violates civil rights of non-English speakers
- State Approves Kettleman City Chemical Waste Landfill Expansion
- State approves expansion of controversial Kettleman Hills hazardous waste landfill
- 500k Kids Attend School Near Fields Sprayed With Highly Toxic Pesticides
- Tulare County couple face summer without water as well runs dry (video)
April, 2014
- State Develops Better Picture of Its Lousy Record on Environmental Justice
- Kettleman clean water project faces more tangles
- Air quality report indicates San Joaquin Valley had no hourly ozone violations
- New map could refocus state's pollution battles
- Fresno neighborhoods still riskiest in state
- Stanislaus cities among those exceeding new state standard for hexavalent chromium in water
- Bakersfield area rates low for access to produce
- Valley in desperate need of help
- Kettleman City water rates likely to increase
- Kettleman water project tied to hazmat expansion
March, 2014
February, 2014
- West Goshen water line project to start
- Health experts warn of water contamination from California drought
- Hard bargain
- Health researcher John Capitman named to Valley air board
- Air quality advocates lobby schools to raise colored flags
- Kettleman City Weighs Toxic Dump Expansion Against Funding for Clean Water
January, 2014
- Assembly wades into L.A.-Central Valley feud on human waste disposal
- California’s Lingering Drought and Pollution Defy Solutions
- Supervisors weigh huge county needs
- Is The Central Valley's Air Pollution Affecting Our Cells And Genes?
- Toxic Regulators Questioned at Senate Oversight Hearing
- For Latino Voters, Climate Change Is Almost As Important An Issue As Immigration
- One-third in state still live where air does not meet U.S. standards
- Death Dust: The valley-fever menace
- Bad Air Quality Increases Risk Of Allergies & Asthma
- Dry, stagnant winter unraveling Valley air-quality efforts
- Red alert: The color purple declared as poor air impacts schools
- Central Valley Residents Grapple with Proposed Fracking Regulations
December, 2013
- Shafter farmer helps bring focus to Valley environmental issues
- Toxic waste watchdog can be glacially slow
- Report faults California toxic waste regulators
- San Joaquin Valley officials fight with EPA over air quality
- $155K in grants made to local environmental projects
- Used Drilling Mud Dumped in California’s Central Valley
- Kettleman City Resident Uneasy With Landfill's Connection To Clean Water Plan
- A Central Valley Farming Town Copes With Toxic Tap Water
- EPA tries to throw out case for California schools contaminated with pesticides
- Asthma a Bigger Concern for Some Valley Children
November, 2013
- New EPA chief has ambitious agenda
- Breathing a little easier
- EPA head laments lack of clean water in San Joaquin Valley
- Valley Hits New Clean-Air Mark
- Bad drinking water in rural Valley towns 'unacceptable,' EPA chief says
- State fails to keep track of hazardous waste
- Valley stakes claim to cleaner air
- Partnership Brings Clean Drinking Water to Central Valley Schools, Programs
- Air officials say: EPA, we want to keep our money
- South Kern County schools get safe drinking water
- Forum explores valley fever
- South Kern County schools get safe drinking water
- Schools in Arvin, Lamont get water filters
- Safer water for schools in Arvin and Lamont
- Schools in Arvin, Lamont get water filters
- Oilfield drilling muds go into unlined pits
- As Fracking Expands in California, Waste Board Refuses to Regulate Toxic Waste Disposal
- Fracking probe expands in Central Valley
- Fracking summit draws crowd at UC Merced
October, 2013
- Easton candidates debate need for water system
- Careful fertilizing protects drinking water, say experts at Modesto conference
- Matheny Tract to welcome Tulare water
- HECA project clears ag protection hurdle
- Air pollution a carcinogen, says WHO
- Drama continues around Kettleman hazardous waste landfill
- Kettleman landfill comment deadline extended again
- State extends Chem Waste Kettlemen Hills comment period
- Protesters blast state toxics department's handling of hazardous waste
- Town hall planned to talk about small-town drinking water
- New law will provide renewable energy to renters, small business
September, 2013
- California regulators approve new groundwater monitoring order for growers in Central Valley
- Valley farmers to face new ground-water quality rules
- State OKs new water rules for farmers
- Water unaffordable to some in San Joaquin Valley
- Often-tainted tap water unaffordable to many in rural San Joaquin Valley
- Perea clean water bill stalls
- Tulare County water districts take first steps toward fixing problems
- Drinking water bill snuffed before Senate vote
August, 2013
July, 2013
- Kettleman City residents voice landfill expansion concerns
- State seeks input on bigger toxic waste dump
- EPA approves state's revised drinking water plan
- Kettleman City toxic landfill fight might turn on finances
- Our View: Stanislaus County right to help tract get clean water
- Birth defects linked to bad Valley water
- Decisions on toxic sites spark fury in 2 communities
- Calif. recommends expansion of hazardous dump
- Kettleman Hills toxic waste landfill to expand
- California boosts Kettleman City toxic-waste dump's expansion hopes
June, 2013
- California farm communities suffer tainted drinking water
- The Conversation: State slow to fix water injustices
- Environmental Justice in Fresno, Where Faith = Awareness
- Funding to improve drinking water has come at a slow drip
- Environmental Concerns Surface as California Aims to Milk China's Dairy Demand
- Two receive the Gary Bellow Public Service Award
- Latino Farmers Stuck In Poverty In Nation's Breadbasket
- Salinas-area elected officials see water bills pass
- Fracking Tests Ties Between California ‘Oil and Ag’ Interests
May, 2013
April, 2013
- Air district's annual report cites progress, challenges
- Living in a Toxic Land: A history of neglect, risk in Lanare
- Valley groundwater rule draws fire from both sides
- Central Valley fares poorly in new California pollution index
- California air among nation’s dirtiest
- Valley flunks air test
- Bakersfield pollution again ranked nation's worst
- Kings fails air test
- Central Valley fares poorly in new California pollution index
- California gets first-ever statewide pollution screening tool
- Tool identifies Calif.'s most polluted cities
- ‘Cal Enviroscreen’ Ranks Zip Codes Statewide By Pollution
- EPA: Calif failed to spend $455M on water projects
- EPA says California failed to spend safe drinking-water funds
- Oil company caught dumping wastewater, Water Board investigating
- Supes approve letter criticizing water board
- Earth Log: Judge's ruling may slow fracking in Fresno County
- Dreams of black gold in the Valley's shale oil deposits
March, 2013
- Kettleman landfill slapped with $300K fine
- State fines Waste Management for spills at Kettleman toxic dump
- Air pollution linked to birth defects in San Joaquin Valley, study says
- Air pollutants linked to higher risk of birth defects
- Toxic waste site near Kettleman City to pay $311,000 in fines
- Dan Morain: Hazards of life in a 'green' state
- Health hazard: West Fresno the riskiest place to live in California
February, 2013
- Local residents to confront the Kern County Board of Supervisors on proposal to build power plant
- Earth Log: Lawmakers need to levy fertilizer fee
- Valley air officials give preliminary OK to hydrogen plant emissions
- Fertilizer fee plan may cost farms in San Joaquin, Salinas valleys
- Distribution centers quietly add to Valley pollution
- Two Alejo water bills gain bipartisan support
- Air pollution linked to low birth weight
- Hazardous landfill leaders meet in Kettleman City
- Solar development absorbing Calif. farmland
- Plan could bring many out of the shadows
- Valley projected to lead state's growth into 2060
January, 2013
- UPS trucks still exchanging trailers in Kettleman
- Valley air district $500 million fund targets diesel pollution
- State air board approves smog plan
- Environmental reporter considers layers of health threats when reporting on hazards
- New clean-air plan likely to increase no-burn days
- UPS a bad neighbor in Kettleman City?
- Foundation gives $600K to help children in need
- Perea water bill lets small towns team up
- Deal made to cut diesel truck emissions
- Kettleman City reaps toxic harvest of Calif. castoffs
December, 2012
- New Year Brings Safer Drinking Water to CA Farm Country
- Local groups among those who sue EPA over rules on pesticide emissions
- New Valley air plan will cut fireplace use in 2014
- Valley water quality board adopts pollutant rules
- America's 20 Dirtiest Cities
- Valley groups push for better air pollution info
- Latinos Are Ready to Fight Climate Change—Are Green Groups Ready for Them?
- Chemical Waste Management Fined Over PCBs at Kettleman City
November, 2012
- Farmers welcome changes but still oppose groundwater plan
- Earth log: Fatal heart attack risk rises in winter because of Valley air
- Central Valley residents tire of receiving L.A.'s urban waste
- Kettleman City activists seek to block expansion of toxic dump
- Bottled water on Thanksgiving menu in tainted region
- Earth Log: Study cites bad water in poor towns
- An advocate for clean water: Susana De Anda co-founded Community Water Center
- Consumer Watchdog Applauds DTSC on Kettleman Landfill Citations, But Warns DTSC Not To Issue Permit to Expand
- Toxic landfill cited for not reporting spills
- State slaps Kettleman toxic waste facility with 72 violations
- State cites waste dump for 72 violations in spills
- Kettleman City landfill could face sanctions for unreported spills
- Armona frustrated over high water bills
- Earth Log: Lawmakers focus on fixing water
- Farmworkers’ Endless Worry: Tainted Tap Water
- The Poorest People in California Are Paying the Most for Drinking Water
- Dairy ruling should have little impact
- Dairy waste's impact on groundwater focus of court ruling
- KMPH Special Report: What’s Really In Your Water?
- California's first auction of greenhouse-gas credits nears
October, 2012
- Canadian oil company to drill more wells near Kettleman City
- Poll: Latino voters support conservation
- Earth Log: Lawsuit challenges Valley's dirty-air penalty
- Survey: Drinking water compliance eludes some California schools
- Women on Top Awards: The Transformers
- EPA sued over San Joaquin Valley vehicle fees
- Air regulators push for reinstallation of monitoring station
- Facing the Climate Gap: How Low-Income Communities of Color Are Leading the Charge on Climate Solutions
- California State Policy: Everyone Has a Legal Right to Affordable, Clean Water
- Activists claim air data proves Lamont recycling facility is dangerous
- A Recognition to Cesar Chavez's Monumental Environmental Legacy
- Everyone Eats There California’s Central Valley is our greatest food resource. So why are we treating it so badly?
- Valley towns still wait for Kings River water
- Latinos a ‘Core Conservation Community,’ Poll Finds
- California takes historic step in safe water for all
September, 2012
- San Joaquin Valley air better but still pretty bad
- California law on human right to water sets example for others – UN expert
- Governor Brown Signs Human Right to Water Bill
- Air-quality changes bring mixed reviews
- Census shows Central Valley areas among poorest in nation
- Impoverished rural town of Monson getting water filters
- McEwen: Just like TV, clean-air effort showing reruns
- California's Progressive Disorder
- New environmental screening tool stirs debate
- New environmental screening tool stirs debate
August, 2012
- EPA approves California air quality plan
- Kings County HSR foes vent frustration
- Rail critics take new approach
- Valley air pollution could halt road funds
- Solar legislation opposed by utilities
- Climate forecast dire for San Joaquin Valley regions, report says
- Officials issue air warning for Valley
- Valley farmers wary of new water rules
- Chem Waste confident of expanding hazmat landfill
- Climate Report Spells Trouble For L.A., Desert, Central Valley
- California's greenhouse gas "cap and trade" program survives legal challenge
- Landfill revenue to fund Kettleman water treatment
- Who carries their water?
- Kettleman City's water deal depends on landfill expansion
- Kettleman City's toxic landfill almost at capacity
July, 2012
- Private wells outside Fresno test positive for contaminants
- Valley airs soot woes at EPA hearing
- Central Valley's ecological state studied
- Earth Log: Bad ozone day renews debate about warnings
- Much of Valley’s water not safe to drink
- Council to consider landfill expansion
- Southern California sewage will fertilize Kings County ag land
- Rubio visits, listens
- Kettleman residents could get clean tap water by 2015
- Delano Residents Demand Town Hall Meeting Over Water Fees
- California Air Resources Board’s Climate Change Scoping Plan Complies With The Global Warming Solutions Act Of 2006
- Kettleman City faces 3-year wait for clean water
- United States: California Court Of Appeal Upholds Statewide Climate Change Scoping Plan
- CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS DECLINE IN KETTLEMAN CITY BIRTH DEFECTS
June, 2012
- California Cap and Trade Survives Appellate Fight
- Federal money to help open clinic in Kettleman City
- State: Kettleman birth defects decline
- Officials to update Kettleman birth-defect study
- State health officials say Kettleman birth-defect rate has dropped
- EPA complaint says cap and trade racially biased
- Enviro Groups Call Calif.'s Cap-And-Trade Program Biased
- Pollution, Poverty, People of Color: No beba el agua. Don't drink the water.
May, 2012
- Field trip for Kettleman students sparks controversy
- Groundwater nitrate issue dumped in agriculture’s lap
- Increase in mining traffic heightens Valley air pollution worries
- County seeks further study of nitrate issue
- Rural towns devise unique plan to solve water problems
- New health issues arise in Kettleman City
- Valley water agencies look at farming contamination
April, 2012
- Little improvement seen in valley air quality
- Failing air grade seen as deceptive
- Senate panel approves water bill with provisions for California farmers
- 'Garbage' chemical TCP threatens Valley water
- Air officials try to counter bad report card
- Solar rooftops sought in poor communities
- Mamá e hija luchan por agua potable
- Neglected for decades, unincorporated communities lack basic public services
- Latino concern for environment grows
- His cause is well-grounded
- Pesticide TCP omitted from Fresno Co. water reports
- EPA Region 9 Focuses on Aiding "Underserved" Communities
March, 2012
- Amid health fears, Japanese maker suspends methyl iodide
- Pesticides sickened 25 in S.J. in 2009, officials say
- Groundwater nitrate contamination grows in California farm areas
- New study blames ag for nitrate problem
- Nitrates in California's water, study finds
- UC Davis nitrate report prompts calls for action
- Report: Nitrate from Fertilizer Polluting Drinking Water in Ag Regions
- Report: Calif. nitrate contamination spreading
- Farming communities facing crisis over nitrate pollution, study says
- UC study: Cropland threatens drinking water for 250,000 in Valley
- Decisions affecting Valley health risks often unseen
- Life expectancy varies by zip code in San Joaquin Valley
- EPA Ducks Claims Over Backsliding Valley Air
- Concerns easier to address
- Tapped out: Community hopes water woes will end soon
- Growth of composting strains oversight of industry
- Ninth Circuit decision in Air v. EPA threatens to disrupt federal highway funding and transportation improvement projects
February, 2012
- California Government Has No Idea Fracking Is Happening
- Minority health study revealed at conference
- EPA’s San Joaquin Valley smog actions challenged
- Earthlog: Toxin in our water to be revealed
- Not a Drop to Drink
- Greenhouse gas battle could reap billions in auctions
- Hearts and Air Pollution: 5 Deadly Air Pollutants Measured on 5 Continents
- Grayson activist honored with Legacy Award
- Valley air a priority? We'll see
- Seminar examines California, Finland’s justice system
January, 2012
- EPA commits to help improve drinking water
- EPA commits to help clean area air
- Ninth Circuit Invalidates EPA’s Approval of Valley’s 2004 One-Hour Ozone SIP Based On Failure to Address “Stale” Emissions Data
- Residents Challenge Coal-Burning Permit
- Will EPA stay course?
- Garbage fees may rise as county revisits Covanta contract
- Efforts to bring clean water to Tulare County
- EPA plan keeps Valley front, center
- EPA's valley visit signals hope, officials say
- Judge: EPA must revisit ozone plan
- Court sends Valley ozone plan back to EPA
- EPA turns its attention to San Joaquin Valley
- Court tosses San Joaquin Valley air pollution control plan
- Supreme Court: San Joaquin Valley must redo climate control plan
- Court Orders EPA To Revisit its Approval of the Valley’s Ozone Plan
- Kettleman water project gains momentum
- Kettleman City learns small town water upgrades take time
- Winter air pollution raises health worries
- Fresno Regional Foundation awards grants
- Kettleman City set to receive $8 million in state water funds
- Arvin Group Says Toxic Gas Escaping Community Recycling
- Bucket brigade evaluates toxic tour results
- Valley kids head back to school amidst dirty air
- In San Joaquin Valley, poor most affected by environmental hazards
December, 2011
- Fresno County pesticide use grew in 2010
- State raises red flags on some green recyclers
- Parkinson's Alley
- Groups sue feds over pollution plan
- Safe Drinking Water is Holiday Wish for Some CA Communities
- Residents ask for respect
- Fresno foundation announces $216K in grants
- Longtime Grayson resident appointed to state environmental post
- UPDATE: Grayson native appointed to state environmental post
- Roadblock to California greenhouse gas cap and trade program removed, but others remain
- Kettleman residents protest to air board
- Bishop Blaire’s vision links environmental stewardship, pro-life concerns
- Water boards attempt to manage state-wide nitrate problem
- EPA to Disperse $1M in "Environmental Justice" Grants
- EPA Interns Research Environmental Inequalities
- EPA awards grant to environmental group
- EPA gives Valley part of $100,000 in water grants
- California Air Board Moves to Increase Presence of Zero-Emissions Vehicles
- Risk, hazards, exploitation: Welcome to the Central Valley
- Arvin residents lead "toxic tour"
- EPA grants $50K to local environmental projects
- Can attorney help relocate Kettleman City residents?
- Hazardous Job + Injury = You're Fired
- God, the Earth and Ozone: Stockton’s Diocese pushes for clean air, pairing environmental advocacy with faith
November, 2011
- Hazardous Waste facility facing APCD hearing for air permit renewal
- Health hazards similar in San Joaquin, Coachella valleys
- CARB replaces board member who criticized agency
- Valley faces serious health risks
- Pollution puts 1.2 million in Valley at risk
- Attorney seeks answers to Kettleman birth defects
- Fowler doctor named to Valley, Calif. air boards
- Study is detailed look at Valley health hazards
- New Details Emerge About Community Recycling Violations
- Pending Chromium 6 limits worry small water company
- Study Maps Pollution Hotspots in CA's San Joaquin Valley
- Kern County Supervisors revoke Community Recycling's permit
- County supervisors revoke Community Recycling's operating permit
- LOIS HENRY: The great Central Valley solar rush is on
- Report: Valley health dangers put 1 million at risk
- Merced County residents: Living in a land of risk
- Supervisors levy $2.33 million fine against Community Recycling
- Rubio tells county to close Community Recycling, find new composter
- San Joaquin Valley residents face high environmental and social hazards, UC Davis study says
- County alleges new safety, land-use violations at composting company
- Hazardous Waste Facility Looking to Expand
- Fluoride is Dangerous, But This Toxin (in Your Water Supply) May be Far Worse
- Legal challenge to Avenal Energy project's PSD permit filed with the Ninth Circuit
- Valley dairies can't afford to go green
- America's 20 Dirtiest Cities
- Groups challenge EPA’s approval of power plant
- State hands down order for recycling facility where brothers died
- Asthmatic Kids at Risk in the Central Valley
- For Central Valley Families, Air Quality Info Can be Confusing, Hard to Find
October, 2011
- Flags work with flying colors
- Two grants issued to improve children’s health
- Kettleman City water project moves forward
- State officials, Monson residents meet about bad water
- Turning Idealism Into Action
- California sets carbon trading rules, despite concerns
- Deal made over Altamont's bad air
- California becomes first state to adopt cap-and-trade program
- Ag spray hits school bus near Caruthers
- Calif poised to finalize 'cap-and-trade' plan
- California Air Resources Board Approves Cap and Trade
- Special report: Chlorine accidents rupture life for workers, townspeople
- Goh asks Cal-OSHA for update on safety at Lamont composting facility
- Valley study links ER visits with bad air days
- CSUF study documents health consequences of Valley air pollution
- State Air Resources Board to Vote on Cap and Trade
- Sen. Rubio calls for recycling facility closure after deaths
- Valley study links ER visits with bad air days
- Mueren 2 migrantes en Los Ángeles
- Teen overcome by fumes, dies at recycling plant
- Family says Arvin brothers killed, injured at composting site protected only by painters' masks
- Perea vows to push drinking-water cleanup
- Feds asked to ignore some Valley air violations
- Gobernador aprueba leyes que promueve la salud
- Brown signs slate of clean drinking water bills
- Is the valley's air quality getting better or worse?
- Jerry Brown signs California Water Bill of Rights
- Separating ozone fact from fiction
- Brown needs to get results for water woes
- Gov. Brown signs clean-water bills
- Alejo Right to Water Bill becomes law
- California AB 32's Cap-and-Trade Program Developments
- Arvin air monitor move could jeopardize fine's removal
- Settlement reached in Valley water fight
- S.J. joins effort to ease tough Valley ozone rules
- Valley air regulators win smog battle with home builders
- Water for crops, but farmworkers go thirsty
- Environmental groups, state regulators win major smog case over home developers
- Supreme Court refuses to hear Central Valley air pollution case
- Red tape ties up possible relief from dirty water
- Good water gone bad
- Solutions to tap-water crisis frustratingly tough to come by
- Look out, air board: Kevin Hall's back
- Dangers of nitrates well known, but stats are scarce
- Rural residents: 'Who knows what's in the water?'
- Tainted water flows from taps of rural Valley homes
September, 2011
- Cap-and-Trade Proceeds in California, Governor Signs Solar Bills
- California: Latinos más expuestos a la contaminación
- Why Does California's Central Valley Have Such Bad Air Pollution?
- Community Water Center to Celebrate Fifth Anniversary: Nonprofit Shines Spotlight on Local Water Issues
- Air quality takes toll on Latino families
- Half of Latinos in U.S. Live in Country’s Most Polluted Cities
- Clean Air...Place and Race Matter
- Arvin secures funding to monitor own air
- Carbon & Courts: Cap and Trade: Fixable or Fatally Flawed?
- Kettleman residents protest bioreactor hearing
- UN reports on Valley's bad water
- Obama to Breathers: Sorry, Wait Until 2013
August, 2011
- U.N. water report focuses on California problems
- Residents on mission for clean air
- Neighborhood pesticide exposure linked to prostate cancer
- Q&A: How Will EPA Decision Impact CA Pesticide Use
- Farmworker Community Health and Pesticides in the Golden State: Leadership or a Tarnished Record?
- EPA: Calif. toxic waste dump must pay $1M penalty
- State air board backs cap and trade on emissions
- EPA: California Pesticide Regulators Knowingly Allowed Harmful Pesticide Use Near Latino Schools
- California toxic waste case settled
- Activists to Air Board: Keep the Cap, Lose the Trade
- Time running short
- Valley bad-air alerts coming to Facebook, Twitter
- California’s San Joaquin Valley Produces Agriculture and Air Pollution
July, 2011
- Sowing seeds of change in San Joaquin Valley
- Local oil industry tops list of air pollution violations
- Trying to clear the air
- Seville pot farms linked to water woes
- Calif. groups sue EPA over civil rights complaint
- EPA sued over toxic waste dumps in California
- Valley residents continue their fight for clean water
- Arvin air monitoring station moved; results skewed
June, 2011
- California delays its carbon-trading program until 2013
- No more brown water
- California Moves Ahead With Cap and Trade
- Outsourcing Global Warming Solutions
- Environmentalists unhappy with latest CARB revision
- Study links Latino towns and nitrate water problems
- Latino groups push Obama on ozone standards
- Chem Waste seeking renewal of bioreactor permit
May, 2011
- EPA to Spare Calif. Power Plant From New Emissions Rules
- An Unclear Course on Emissions Policy
- Farmworkers—The basis and bottom of the food chain
- McCarthy bill a bad idea for valley air
- In Blow to Big Polluters, Judge Halts California’s Cap and Trade Program
- Most of Calif.'s Carbon Law Unaffected by Court Ruling; Trading Date Could Slip
- “En ningún momento decían: no la pueden tomar”
- Kettleman City Band Together to Fight Toxic Waste Dumping
- Sierra Club calls on Gov. Brown to revise global warming plan
- 'Green Paper' details needs of Central Valley rural community
- Stink over plant: Neighbors want Darling to comply
- Clean water advocates try again for reform
April, 2011
- 'Green' biomass isn't always so clean
- Global Warming Law Shifts Responsibility from Polluters to Communities
- Mothers' Pesticide Exposure Linked To Kids' IQs
- Kettleman City's growing toxic web
- Big Ag demands right to pollute California’s Central Valley
- California farmers, ecologists square off over drinking water pollution
- Do environmental justice groups have a legitimate beef with California’s cap-and-trade program?
- Central Valley solar energy powers pistachio farm