Pollution
July, 2021
June, 2021
- DTSC Agency Over Toxic Mess in At-Risk Communities
- 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.
- Should California Turn Contaminated Land Into Affordable Housing?
- California Oil Regulators Missed Another Deadline to Release New Health and Safety Rules
- Officials issue warning about poor air quality in Valley
- How much fracking is there in California? Newsom, state regulators can’t tell
- Oilfield disposal site in western Kern set to close
- In the Shadow of Big Oil: Neighborhood Drilling in California
- Can California Avoid Another Toxic Waste Disaster?
- Latinx and Low-Income Communities Are Paying the Human Costs of Plastic Pollution
- 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
April, 2021
- DOT Floats Restoring Calif.'s Right To GHG Emissions Rules
- 4 in 10 Americans breathe polluted air, with people of color hit hardest
- 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
- Replacing Fossil Fuels with Community-Led Clean Energy
- Free bottled water is coming to up to 42,000 Stanislaus-area homes with tainted wells
- Advancing environmental justice through law
- California is greenlighting oil wells linked to groundwater pollution
March, 2021
- The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Last Stand in California Oil Country
- Will Valley air district actually enforce new restrictions on agricultural burning?
- 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
- More Than 25 Million Americans Drink From the Worst Water Systems
- Arvin, Lamont area chosen for program to improve air quality in disadvantaged communities
- 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.
- Limit smoke pollution and support a healthy ag future. It’s time to ban field burning
- 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?
- Leyva introduces bill that seeks to ban harmful land uses
- Burning Fossil Fuels Caused One-Fifth of Premature Deaths in 2018
January, 2021
- Will California’s regulators end the cycle of injustice and toxic contamination?
- Achieving the Human Right to Water in California
- Report: New report finds California fails to safely manage radioactive and toxic oil and gas waste
- Unsafe Water More Common in Communities of Color
- Kamala Harris says California’s water crisis is a racial injustice. Will she champion equity?
- Toxic Pesticide Faces New Scrutiny From Biden Administration
- 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
- Health, Environmental Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Air Toxics Loophole
- Oil Drilling on California’s Federal Lands Set to Resume After 8 Years, Sets up Early Test of Biden Administration
- Letters to the editor for Sunday, Jan. 3
- In 2021, California can lead the way on environment re-construction
December, 2020
- Signs of Hope for US Federal Climate Action in 2021
- Legacy of a clean-air czar: Clearer skies, bold alliances and bitter controversy
- County fails to deliver pesticide protections for Ivanhoe community
- The climate crisis is hitting close to home. What can we do?
- ‘The Fight Against Fossil Fuel Infrastructure is the Fight for Healthy Communities’
- So You’ve Been Publicly Fumed
- Communities Of Color Are Supposed To Be Getting State Money To Reduce Pollution. Where Is It?
- 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
- The battle over Nichols for EPA
- ‘Pesticide drift’ affecting California health and safety
- Toxic tap water in Latino towns is a legacy of racist policies, California officials say
- Several US Regions' Found With Arsenic-Poisoned Drinking Water
- Much Of California’s Water Wells Are Contaminated With Chromium-6. Could A Costly Fix Be Coming?
- Inequalities in Public Water Arsenic Concentrations in Counties and Community Water Systems across the United States, 2006–2011
- 550 Groups Ask Biden to Solve Plastic Pollution Crisis With Eight Executive Actions
- Xavier Becerra, H.H.S. Pick, Was California’s Anti-Trump Attack Dog
- New Stanford study allows regional prediction of uranium in groundwater
- Justice Served
- Behind the 'Ultimate Hypocrisy' of Letting Vernon's Toxic Battery Plant Off the Hook for Millions
- California’s Environmental Justice Policies Should Serve as A Model for the Biden-Harris Administration
- Exide Bankruptcy Case Will Cost Californians Millions
- 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
- California Court Strikes Down Limits on Fighting Dirty Power Plants
- Racial disparities in access to running water: 5 studies to know
- Can California’s Cap and Trade Actually Address Environmental Justice?
- Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?
- California Expands Air Monitoring to Include PFAS, More Toxics
- It’s crunch time for dairies to wrap up nitrate and drinking water plans
- Watch: Q&A on private wells and water quality in the central San Joaquin Valley
- California Is Making Progress On Safe Water For All, But Work Remains
- Valley Air District’s Emissions Bank Likely To Change Following Damaging State Review
- Legal Protest Fights First Federal Oil-lease Sale in California in 8 Years
October, 2020
- Scientists Share Coping Strategies for San Joaquin Valley Households at Risk of Extreme Climate Impacts
- Air Board hopes to ban all ag burning, despite incentives drying up
- Parents Sue Chlorpyrifos Makers Corteva, Dow Over Child’s Autism
- Additional measures, enforcement needed in San Joaquin Valley plan for clean air
- It your water contaminated? Here’s a guide to health risks and filters that work
- Climate policy, environmental justice, and local air pollution
- San Joaquin Valley family says company’s toxic pesticide caused child’s disabilities
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Air quality in San Joaquin Valley is ‘worst we’ve ever had,’ officials say
- Air district considers alternatives to open burning of ag waste
- Boiling Point: California won’t need to kill fossil fuel plants. They’re dying of old age
- Op-Ed: Seeking to make agriculture clean up its own mess - Los Angeles Times
- Drinking water is contaminated in rural California. Why is it taking so long to fix?
- Calif. Biomass Energy Needs Gas Regs, Advocates Say
- All New California Cars, Trucks Must Be Zero-Emission By 2035, Newsom Announces In Executive Order
- Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them.
- California Takes a Big Step Toward Making Polluters Pay for Their Messes
- California Takes a Big Step Toward Making Polluters Pay for Their Messes
- 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
- Smell wildfire smoke in your home? Here’s a cheap and simple hack to clean indoor air
August, 2020
- California’s attorney general sues Trump for the 100th time — to save the ‘Magna Carta’ of environmental laws
- 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
- California adopts major pollution cuts for diesel trucks and ships
November, 2019
October, 2019
September, 2019
- 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
- California polluters may soon buy carbon “offsets” from the Amazon — is that ethical?
- Groundwater salinity and the effects of produced water disposal in the Lost Hills–Belridge oil fields, Kern County, California
June, 2019
- After a gas leak forced an evacuation in Arvin, California, residents decided to fight back
- Opinion: California’s trucks should be smog-checked like cars
- Bottled water containing high levels of arsenic sold at major retailers
- Fresno teen's air quality monitors vandalized
- Failure of fed to increase community protections against ozone forces legal action
- Pesticide use remains near record high in California, state data show
- New Bureau of Environmental Justice Seeking Funding and Enforcement Power?
- 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
May, 2019
- Valley Air District prepare for distribution boom in Kern County
- 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
- Letter to the Editor: We don't need any more drilling
- With cleaner Valley air, there can never, ever be any going back
- 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?
- California defies Trump to ban pesticide linked to childhood brain damage
- Community Voices: Don’t let what happened to my children happen to yours
- Can Zoning for Environmental Justice Reverse a Century of Zoning Racism?
- 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
April, 2019
- How Big Oil Dominates the Public Discourse to Manipulate and Decieve
- Air Quality Up but Still Poor for Central Valley Areas
- 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
- Trump Releases Plan to Reopen California Public Lands to Drilling, Fracking Proposal Targets More Than 1 Million Acres for Oil Leases
- Report: Fresno Valley rank No. 1 in U.S. for polluted air - receives letter 'F' failing grades
- 9 terrifying things that could be lurking in your tap water
- Trump Administration Releases Plan to Open California to Oil Drilling
- Fracking Yosemite: Administration Unveils Plan for More than 1.6 Million Acres, Including Near National Parks
- Car traffic pollution could cause developmental delays in children, UC Merced study suggests
- CA Air Resources Board Stonewalls on CA Data, Yet Sues Pres. Trump Over Emissions Data
- Clean Energy Benefits for Environmental Justice Communities: Support AB 961
- California Court Affirms Communities' Right to Fight Permits for Dirty Power Plants
- 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
- State of California Confirms Kettleman City at Risk from Pollution
March, 2019
- California Governor's Plan to Create New Drinking Water Tax Faces Resistance
- California Already Has a Green New Deal. Here's How It Works
- Fight the Power?
- San Joaquin Valley is One of the Least Healthy Places in California, Study Finds. Here’s why
- Clearing the Air: Three Victories for the People
- 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
- The U.S. Nail Salon Crisis
- 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
- 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
- Settlement Wins Protections at Bakersfield Oil Train Terminal
February, 2019
- Shafter to Benefit from State Community Air Protection Program
- Walters: San Joaquin Valley — California’s Poor Stepchild?
- We can’t Wait for Washington’s Green New Deal. California Needs Just Transition Now
- Air Pollution Greatly Impacts the Poor, Study Finds
- New Report: Land Use Reforms Can Break Cycle of American Environmental Racism
- New Report: Land Use Reforms Can Break Cycle of American Environmental Racism
- Workshop Focuses on Bill Addressing Environmental Justice
- Communities For A Better Environment
- A Wastewater Company Halts Disposal At Two Sites Of Groundwater Contamination
- Californians Add Momentum to "Green New Deal"
- EDF, Allies Urge D.C. Circuit to Close EPA Loophole for Toxic Air Pollution
- California Cases of Potentially Deadly “Valley Fever” are Starting to Soar
- Air quality Regulators Visit Lamont to Explore New Avenues Toward Cleaner Air
- Plan promises cleaner air by 2024
- California’s $5 Billion Clean-Air Plan Lacking One Thing: Money
January, 2019
- Smog gets bad quickly in the San Joaquin Valley. Images taken just days apart show the dramatic shift
- San Joaquin Valley’s air ranks among worst in U.S. This plan promises to improve it by 2024
- Delano residents voice concerns, questions over water and soil contamination
- 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.
December, 2018
- Contamination forces idling of some eastside water wells
- Dismissing science has put these California workers at risk
- California Supreme Court demands a do-over on Friant Ranch environmental analysis
- Valley air board doing poor job of recognizing reality of climate change
- Steyer: Deregulation Is Killing People
- California Criticized for Adopting Inadequate Measures to Restrict the Highly Toxic Chlopyrifos
- Groups File Suit to Require Environmental Review for Public Loans to Animal Operations
- 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
- California Gov. Jerry Brown Was A Climate Leader, But His Vision Had A Fatal Flaw
- 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
- Indigenous Forest Guardians and Sky Protectors rally to denounce tropical rainforest offsets
- California’s misguided plan to ‘save’ tropical forests
- New website maps California power plants, emissions, people
- What the National Weather Service says is trapping fire smoke in the Central Valley
October, 2018
- States Shift Focus To Pollution Victims As Trump Nears 2 Major Climate Rollbacks
- Arsenic Symposium calls attention to water contamination issues
- CARB awards BNSF Railway $22.6M for clean technology pilot program; battery-electric locomotive
- Hemet sues Dow Chemical and Shell Oil over contaminated drinking water
- Fresno still ‘ground zero’ for terrible air. Why did Valley Air District blow off major hearing?
September, 2018
- California counters Trump on car emissions standards, expands other climate rules
- Bill protecting children from dangerous lead exposure approved by governor
- 2018 Ends and Chlorpyrifos Is Still Around
- California's Looming Water Pollution Problem
- Where air pollution isn’t an abstraction
- 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
- Climate Change Mitigation, Air Pollution, and Environmental Justice in California
August, 2018
- Noxious Mix of Smoke And Pollution Stresses Health In California's Heartland
- EPA Settles With Four Concrete Manufacturers Over Storm Water Pollution
- New air pollution plan ready for public scrutiny. This is no time to breathe easy
- California Lawmakers Eye Voluntary Tax To Pay For Central Valley Water Contamination
- Air pollution from U.S. manufacturing lower; regulations among other factors credited
- Grassroots air quality sensors spreading to local neighborhoods
- Pollution Makes the Personal Political
- Air District needs to be clearer about health threats in Valley’s polluted air
- Transition to Renewable Energy: Legislation Puts Clean Air and Vulnerable Communities First
- Unhealthy air levels send athletes indoors, others looking for the right kind of mask
July, 2018
- 'Disheartening' heat, air conditions continue
- Trump Expected to End California's Car Emissions Power
- Nuclear, noise concerns at Site 300 meeting
- Community Pushing to Halt Further Hazardous Explosive Testing Near Tracy
- $10 million in cap-and-trade dollars awarded for environmental justice programs, including to native tribe in San Diego
- 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
- 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
- Citizen science gives sense of empowerment in Arvin, but there are concerns
- Editorial: Clean water left unfunded in California budget
- 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
- 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
- Appeal Challenges Kern County’s Oil Well Permitting Scheme
- How do we detoxify California's poison tap water? More democracy
- Satellite Data Can Predict Arsenic Contamination In Irrigation and Drinking Water: Study
- Overpumping of Central Valley groundwater has side effect: too much arsenic
- Hot weather marks start of Valley's ozone pollution season
- Overpumping leads to California groundwater arsenic threat
- Another Danger from Overpumping Groundwater: Arsenic
- 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?
May, 2018
- Prop. 70 will slow down California’s push toward a greener future
- CalRecycle disapproves industry plan to recycle carpet
- Air officials enthusiastic about winter air quality improvement — with a caveat
- Odds of reaching newest Valley air pollution standards even bleaker – 2
- 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?
- Despite Tight Restrictions, Open Ag Burning Increases In The Valley
April, 2018
- Safe drinking water is essential to life and a human right. Let's fund it.
- Region ranks as 13th worst for ozone woes
- 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 Attorney General Xavier Becerra Could Bring a Breath of Fresh Air
- Nourishment And Poison: Nitrogen’s Double Life
- D.C. Rally to Urge Governor Brown to Halt New Oil and Gas Projects, Protect Californians' Health
- Retooling CalEnviroScreen: Cumulative Pollution Burden and Race-Based Environmental Health Vulnerabilities in California
- BC hosts second annual Health and Social Justice Hackathon
- BC hosts second annual Health and Social Justice Hackathon
- 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
- Survey: Majority of Valley Voter Favor Stricter Air Quality Regulation
- In bellwether decision, water board orders McKittrick oilfield disposal pond operator to monitor pollutants
- Calif. Nonprofit Taps Residents to Ensure Safe Drinking Water
March, 2018
- Valley Groups Divided On Support For Major Drinking Water Bill
- Climate change will have its Scopes Monkey Trial this week
- Infrastructure could improve unsafe drinking water in San Joaquin Valley
- Thousands in the San Joaquin Valley Have Unsafe Drinking Water, But Clean Water Is Close
- At the Intersection of Pollution and Poverty, California Attorney General Establishes Bureau of Environmental Justice, and Industry Should Get Prepared
February, 2018
- California’s attorney general puts polluters on notice with new environmental justice unit
- Attorney General Becerra opens environmental justice office
- 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
- How PurpleAir's Founder Put Air Quality Monitoring In The Hands Of The Public
- All this hazy air is making us sick; why isn’t air district protecting us?
- 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
- What’s In Your Air? New Low-Cost Devices Monitor Valley Air Pollution
- Lawsuit Challenges California County's Flawed Plan to Limit Harmful Greenhouse Pollution From Industrial Cattle Operations
- Environmental Justice Element Now Required for California’s General Plans
December, 2017
November, 2017
- Environmental groups stop oil trains in their tracks
- Arvin air sample, and independent interpretation, Nov 20th 2017
- REPORT: How Pollution Trading Harms Black and Latinx Communities
- California’s 'Dirty Oil' Said as Environmentally Damaging as Canada Oilsands
- As So-Called ‘Climate Leaders’ Tout Cap-and-Trade, New Report Details Racial and Economic Injustice of Pollution Trading Schemes
- California’s Climate Emissions Are Falling, But Cap-And-Trade Is Not The Cause
- New Project From Google Tracks San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Using Street View Cars
- Smoke waves from climate-fueled wildfires cause lasting health problems
September, 2017
August, 2017
- Why California’s Nitrate Problem Will Take Decades to Fix
- Climate Change Activists Not Deterred by California's Industry-Friendly Law
- 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
- Environmental racism and cap-and-trade in California
- California’s Plan to Tackle a Carcinogen Widespread in Water
- 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
- Questions remain as Gov. Brown signs legislation to address neighborhood-level air pollution
- Just How Far Can California Possibly Go on Climate?
- California farm region plagued by dirty air looks to Trump
- Clean Water Plan for Long-Suffering San Joaquin Valley Towns Derailed
- California just got bipartisan support to extend its cap and trade program to 2030
- Private Domestic Well Owners Left Behind In California's Water Quality Push
- Burning carpet at Crows Landing poisons the air; it needs to stop
- Cap-and-Trade Deal Could Woo GOP Support, Anger Environmentalists
- En Banc Hearing on Environmental Justice and Disadvantaged Communities
- Living in California’s San Joaquin Valley May Harm Your Health
- Systemic Failure: Why 1 Million Californians Lack Safe Drinking Water
- Community Voices: Feeling lethargic? Just wait till HR 806 passes
- 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
- Will California Overhaul Its Cap-and-Trade Program?
- The Energy 202: California scores its first big environmental victory of the Trump era
- 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
- Valley Air District works to advance new, innovative technologies to reduce air pollution
- Some US States, Cities Say ‘We Are Still In’ Paris Agreement
- Watwerwise: Study urges school water tests
- Greenhouse emissions fall for another year in California
- They Built It, But Couldn’t Afford To Run It—Clean Drinking Water Fight Focuses On Gaps In Funding
- For sustainable climate policy, California needs a balanced approach
- Is California’s Legislature ultraliberal? Not so fast
- America’s Toxic Prisons: The Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration
May, 2017
- California Legislature holds key to protecting health of Californians and our climate
- Back to the shop: Why California is telling Volkswagen to retool spending plan
- Gov. Brown tours polluted L.A. neighborhoods to see firsthand where progress lags
- Bad air quality and high temperatures have health experts warning Valley residents
- A California regulator’s curious crusade to remake the Clean Air Act
- California forecasts robust growth in biodiesel, feedstock demand
- Special Report: The History of South Valley Air Quality
- Smoggy Central Valley Could Lose in Fight on US Pollution Standards
- One Stone, No Birds: California Greenhouse Gas Policy
- Nearly a Million Californians Exposed To Pesticide Chemical Linked To Cancer in Their Drinking Water
- Survey: Valley residents worried about water
- How California’s Greenhouse Gas Laws can Better Serve Disadvantaged Communities
- Calif. Court Revives Fight Over Kern County Oil Wells
- Drinking Water Is A Human Right, But These Valley Residents Don’t Have It
- Clearing the Air: American Lung Association of CA
April, 2017
- Advancing Equitable Carbon Pricing in California
- Chemical Companies Knowingly Allowed Carcinogenic Contaminant in Common Pesticide
- California’s landmark climate-change program would also fight air pollution under proposal
- Lung Association gives county air a failing grade
- Potent carcinogen contaminated drinking water used by millions, says report
- Could California’s cap-and-trade system control other pollution, too?
- Valley air ranks among the worst nationwide, report says
- Cancer-Causing Chemical In Valley Water Is One Step Closer To Final Regulation
- 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
- California's poor hit hardest by unsafe drinking water
- Cancer-Causing Pesticide ‘Garbage’ Taints Tap Water for Millions in California
- #123TCP – The Toxic Chemical in California's Tap Water
- California’s ‘new’ environmentalism: Toxic air, tainted water driving climate-change debate
March, 2017
- 7 ways California fights climate change
- Trump’s climate policy roll-back won’t impact Central Valley
- Transformative Climate Communities Community: Vision And Principles For A Successful Program
- March 2017 CWLN Newsletter
- 2017 Environmental Justice Legislative Agenda
- Community Voices: Stop attacks on commonsense environmental regulations
- California regulators launch new campaign against harmful climate pollutants
- Proposed EPA cuts punctuate hearing on Clean Air Act bill
- San Joaquin Valley 2017 Plan for the 2012 PM2.5 Standard
- San Joaquin Valley ground zero for latest Trump effort
- In the battle over California climate policies, green projects are now in the hot seat
- Dozens of Advocacy Groups Challenge EPA on Factory Farm Pollution
- Opponents warming to offset rule changes in California carbon market extension bill
- California Set to Regulate Carcinogen in Water for Decades
- California State Board of Food and Agriculture to Discuss Issues Related to Safe Drinking Water in Disadvantaged Communities at March 7th Meeting
- 'A Tragedy': Hundreds of Thousands of California Residents Exposed to Contaminated Water
- California’s Environmental Justice Advisory Committee opposes carbon trading
- Clearing the Air: PM2.5 and Attacks on the Clean Air Act
February, 2017
- 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
- State Data Show Nearly 300 Water Systems Out Of Compliance
- 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
- Groundbreaking Good Neighbor Agreement Reached Between Recology and Kern County Community Groups
- Agreement in place between composting facility, community groups
- We’re ill-served by state pollution regulators: Guest commentary
- We’re ill-served by state pollution regulators: Guest commentary
- 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
- Standing Room Only: Briefing California Legislators on the Importance of Funding Safe Drinking Water
- Clean water advocates have a solution that involves your water bill
- The Burden Of Pollution And Proof
- Is California climate law worsening pollution in communities of color?
- Unsafe Water Has Plagued California Town For Years
- State is sued over cancer-causing fumigant
January, 2017
- 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
- State To Require Water Systems To Test School Water For Lead
- U.S. EPA Releases Annual Toxic Release Inventory Report for Pacific Southwest
- Smoking Polluters: Visible Emissions and Citizen Science in the Valley
- Community Voices: CARB directives will impact quality of education
- Pricing carbon: California’s unfinished climate priority
- New bill for safe drinking water in rural schools
- CCA market could rebound, despite lingering concerns
December, 2016
- Oil companies face deadline to stop polluting California groundwater
- California’s renewable energy standards are important to vulnerable communities
- From the archives: 'Garbage' chemical TCP threatens Valley Water
- The thousands of U.S. locales where lead poisoning is worse than in Flint
- Toxic water plagues rural California
- 4 million Americans could be drinking toxic water and would never know
- Clean air – at what price?
- California Legislature’s gaseous impulses
- State water board must set limit on carcinogen in water
- O’Reilly Auto Parts to pay $9.86 million settlement for mishandling hazardous waste
- State air board releases 'ambitious' greenhouse gas emissions reduction plan
- Kettleman water system hearing next week
November, 2016
October, 2016
- New emissions targets make cap and trade the best low-cost, market-based approach
- Don’t disadvantage the Bay Area’s poor communities
- Cawelo Study Fails to Test for Dozens of Oilfield Chemicals in Wastewater Used to Irrigate California Food Crops
- How do we convince anti-oil activists our water is safe?
- LA Schools Get Air Filters in Halliburton-EPA Deal
- Halliburton ordered to cut air pollution near schools
- Environmentalists file another ammonia notice with EPA
- State letter to farmers demands water to fix nitrate problem
- California Today: When It Comes to Health, a Tale of Many Californias
- Wrangling the Climate Impact of California Dairy
- Another ammonia case dismissed, but the environmentalists will keep fighting
- LOIS HENRY: Oilfield water proves safe for irrigation — again
- Is Cap and Trade Failing Low Income and Minority Communities?
- Is Cap and Trade Failing Low Income and Minority Communities?
September, 2016
- EJ Groups And State Regulators Reach Historic Agreement Over Kettleman City Civil Rights Case
- CAFO air quality lawsuit dismissed
- Don’t forsake poor people in climate change fight
- South Valley water coalitions to study nitrate leaching from farms
- Dairy industry weighs California's new regulations
- Nitrates poison water in California's Central Valley
- Cap-and-trade? Not so great if you are black or brown
- Governor Signs Two Climate Bills to Increase Investments for Environmental Justice Communities
- Gov. Brown approves $900 million for environmental programs
- Report outlines how to make equity part of California’s low-carbon economy
- Bad air quality affecting residents
- Study: Increased Pollution Does Not Bring More Jobs
August, 2016
- 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
- California Legislative Spending Rampage Continues
- California and EPA Poised to Expand Pollution of Potential Drinking Water Reserves
- Delano residents ask for Assemblymember Salas to vote for clean air
- Schools prepare for bad air
- Environmental Justice Leaders Across California Head to Sacramento To Tell Policy Makers ‘Stop Protecting Polluters’
- California farm communities pay price for decades of fertilizer use
- SJ Valley may go to hell but air will be clean
- Advocates See Hazardous Waste Rights Pact As Model For Future Cases
- Selenium still poisons Valley, Delta, nation
- Report: Fresno could avoid 260 deaths a year with better air quality
- In California Clean Air Fight, Environmental Justice Takes a Leading Role
- Climate change: Pollution hits low-income communities hardest
- Climate change: Pollution hits low-income communities hardest
July, 2016
- Bakersfield residents and representatives discuss the California Climate Plan Thursday
- "Perfect Storm of Pollution" puts Valley in Danger
- 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
- EPA inaction sends emissions plan back to drawing board
- Creating air quality success in California’s heartland: How hard can this be?!
- 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
- Valley suffocating largely on truck, train pollution – some cooperation, please!
June, 2016
- California Superintendent Tom Torlakson Urges Schools to Test Water
- 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
- 2016 San Joaquin Valley air pollution half-year report
- Valley air officials demand more from EPA than stricter standards
- Waterless
- Bernie Sanders On State Of San Joaquin Water: 'Unbelievable'
- Columnist inveighs in op-ed how Valley’s dirty air is (and isn’t) regulated
May, 2016
- Air District Claims Success While Air Quality Worsens
- Clean drinking water bill advances
- California green energy bills target gas storage safety, protecting low-income communities
- San Joaquin Valley achieves decades-old ozone standard
- 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
- 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
- Valley has ‘F’ air, Lung Association says; data outdated, locals say
- Report Gives Central Valley "F" for Air Quality
- Lawsuit claims EPA failed to prevent potential increase of pollution from Alon Oil Refinery
- Is California steamrolling REDD offsets into its cap and trade scheme?
- Victory in Kern County