Despite much support from environmental, labor, justice and educational organizations, the California Assembly adjourned early Saturday morning without taking up a vote for S.B.100, a bill designed to get California to 100% renewable energy by 2045, the Sierra Club has announced…
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Dolores Weller, Director for the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition will interview Woody Hastings, Renewable Energy Manager for Center for Climate Protection. Listen in to learn about the latest on Community Choice in Energy in the Valley, and on air quality issues like the Clean Air Act and the Valley’s PM2.5 plan…
All over America, there are people, most of whom are poor and many of them members of minority groups, living next door or on top of various unexploded environmental Hiroshimas that nobody thinks about until one of them detonates and kills a bunch of people—or, as we’ve learned over the past month, particularly in Houston, when a massive storm drops down on top of them…
California’s Democratically-controlled Legislature kicked off 2017 pledging to stand strong against Republican President Donald Trump and pursue a liberal slate of policies on everything from climate change to health care…
Many communities throughout California have been facing contamination issues for years. The majority of contaminated wells in the state are in the San Joaquin Valley, where the most common contaminates are nitrates followed closely by arsenic salts…
The “Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fee” emerged as an 11th-hour effort by Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel) to charge every water customer in the state an additional $5 a month. That money would then fund drinking-water projects in disadvantaged communities…
New federal government-funded study finds exposure to a key air pollutant is significantly influenced by race, far more than by income, age or education…
The California Legislature passed AB 797 (Irwin) this afternoon. With the bipartisan vote in the Assembly of 45-19 today and the Senate’s bipartisan 30-10 vote on Tuesday, the bill now heads to the Governor for his signature…
Women exposed to the highest quantities of agricultural pesticides in California’s San Joaquin Valley while pregnant were at heightened risk of giving birth prematurely and delivering low-weight infants, a new study found…
The two bills, SB 398 and SB 617, received heavy criticism from environmental justice groups for the allowances they gave to big oil and the limits they placed on local communities to regulate air quality. On the other hand, many voices applauded the bills as a necessary step toward both climate progress and clean air…