Since 2008, Valley Teen Ranch’s water system has been out of compliance with state code because of arsenic contamination. She and a staff member show me 14 huge water bottles stacked up against the wall—the kind you place on an office water dispenser. “So is this all the bottled water that we would use in a month for this house?” Clendenan asks. “No, that’s for the week,” he says…
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Winery’s expansion prompts a top management hire and Bank makes a key hire for the Valley…
The cap-and-trade bill fight in Sacramento was about as confusing as any legislative battle ever gets. On the one side, you had some very well-known environmental groups and the governor working to pass the legislation, Assembly Bill 398. On the other, you had some very well-known environmental groups and nearly every environmental justice group in the state opposing the bill…
A new drinking water regulation from the State Water Resources Control Board will mean millions of dollars in new equipment and maintenance for Turlock’s well system…
In the third video in our “Toxic Taps” series, we traveled to Sacramento, where San Joaquin Valley residents rallied to support Senate Bill 623, which would create a fund to clean toxic drinking water sources…
At Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay with the San Francisco skyline right behind him on July 25, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 398 by Assembly member Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella), controversial legislation that extends California’s cap-and-trade program for another ten years until 2030…
California Governor accuses opponents of Big Oil’s cap-and-trade bill of ‘political terrorism’…
Volkswagen, one of the world’s largest producers of gas- and diesel-powered cars, is about to start spending $44 million to persuade Sacramentans to embrace electric vehicles…
Agriculture and environmental justice advocates are supporting legislation to create a fund for clean drinking water projects. But disputes over key components of the bill could derail it…
Governor Jerry Brown flew from Sacramento to Bell Gardens, as a favor to Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Cerritos-Artesia), to sign into law Assembly Bill 617, the California Health Benefit Exchange Act, co-authored by Garcia, “that will create a statewide climate action plan and program to meet our emission reduction mandate, ensure economic prosperity and address critical health and air quality concerns that are shared by everyone who lives in the 58th Assembly District,” said Garcia…