The Kern Community College District (KCCD) and Bakersfield College have been awarded $1,999,725.30 to convene industry, worker organizations and community around shared interests in energy, workforce, and industry needs of Kern County and the central valley…
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More than 100 conservatives are voicing opposition to Xavier Becerra, President Biden’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, calling him an “extremist” who would carry a liberal agenda if confirmed…
Laura García is haunted by the last time her daughter woke her up in the middle of the night, struggling to breathe. It was 2019, during the rainy season, when growers burn piles of grapevines surrounding her home in Raisin City, near Fresno. That day, García recalls smelling smoke…
State environmental officials today released a draft update to California’s groundbreaking environmental justice tool, CalEnviroScreen, for public review and comment…
Laura García is haunted by the last time her daughter woke her up in the middle of the night, struggling to breathe. It was 2019, during the rainy season, when growers burn piles of grapevines surrounding her home in Raisin City, southwest of Fresno. That day, García recalls smelling smoke…
When it comes to environmental and climate justice, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s grades are slipping. After some promising steps in his first year as governor, the governor is backsliding on climate and environmental justice, despite record-shattering heatwaves, a historic wildfire season and a pandemic even more deadly to those living in polluted and historically redlined neighborhoods…
California state senators introduced a bill Wednesday that would ban fracking and other controversial oil and gas extraction techniques in the state by 2027…
Kern County residents and community leaders came together on February 10th to speak out against the ordinance to expand oil and gas extraction…
Newsom administration officials said Tuesday that they will evaluate the role of California’s landmark cap and trade program as the state examines its strategies for tackling climate change over the next decade…
A bill introduced in the state Senate Wednesday proposes to halt several oil production techniques common in Kern County by Jan. 1, 2027 and incentivize well-remediation contractors to hire anyone the ban leaves jobless…