The state of California was sued this week by an environmental group for approving thousands of oil and gas drilling and fracking projects without the required environmental review…
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Transcribed here is one such episode, in which Richard G. Newell spoke with Mary D. Nichols, an environmental lawyer and chair of the California Air Resources Board…
Nearly two decades ago, California passed a law that was supposed to stop San Joaquin Valley farmers from burning fields and piles of tree limbs and vines — a practice that chokes the region with smoke and contributes to the Valley’s abysmal air quality…
San Joaquin County Valley growers currently set fire to over 100,000 tons of waste a year. The move to phase out burning is more than a decade in the making…
When severe forest fires last year blanketed Oregon and California with a thick layer of smoke, the high concentrations of fine particulate matter spewed into the air created one of the worst air pollution events in recent history…
In December, a British coroner ruled that the cause of 9-year-old Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah’s death in 2013 was “toxic air pollution.” On its face this may not seem all that important, given that an estimated 7 million people die annually from air pollution and more than 90 percent of the world’s population breathes in hazardous air every day…
A state audit of climate programs overseen by the California Air Resources Board has found the air regulator overstated reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from its electric vehicle incentive program and other initiatives…
Decades of research show that Black and brown communities are on the front lines of environmental harms. Can those longstanding injustices be remedied?
Climate change is one of the most universal environmental and social justice issues of this generation, and communities across the country are experiencing and meeting this challenge every single day. At the heart of each story below is a community member with a deep commitment to protecting the people and places that they call home…
San Joaquin Valley old-timers can recall that scent of wood-fire smoke in the fall, wafting over the region where farmers lit fires to harvested fields, piles of old trees and uprooted vines, and other ag waste. It was a time-tested way to get rid of diseased material and pests…