Top California lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown (D) are still hammering out language to extend the state’s cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases in an effort to reach a deal by the end of next week…
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The State Water Resources Control Board voted Tuesday to create a new legal limit, or maximum contaminant level (MCL), 1,2,3- Trichloropropane (TCP), a man-made, drinking water contaminant found across the state…
In a rebuke to President Trump’s disengagement from worldwide climate change efforts, Gov. Jerry Brown told an international audience Thursday the president “doesn’t speak for the rest of us” and unveiled plans for a global environmental summit in San Francisco next year…
The American Lung Association’s State of the Air Report says four of the most polluted metropolitan regions in the U.S. are in the San Joaquin Valley…
In recent months, Gov. Jerry Brown has made clear that an extension of the state’s cap-and-trade program will need GOP support…
En Banc Hearing on Environmental Justice and Disadvantaged Communities
When: Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:00 PM- 5:00 PM
Where: CPUC Auditorium, 505 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA; also available via webcast; Listen-only phone:800-857-1917, passcode 92105…
Drought conditions continue for thousands of rural residents in the San Joaquin valley who rely on groundwater. And the race to dig deeper wells is a losing game for small communities and those on private wells…
In the second video in our “Toxic Taps” series, we meet residents of San Joaquin Valley towns struggling with contaminated drinking water from community water systems and private wells…
The epicenter of the state’s drinking water catastrophe is in the San Joaquin Valley, where 200,000 people have struggled to obtain clean, safe water for decades…
[A]ccording to state data, turning on the tap is risky for more than 1 million people in the San Joaquin Valley, where drinking water is among the most contaminated nationwide, according to government testing…