A report by the State Water Resources Control Board found that there are 680 community water systems across California that rely on contaminated groundwater as part of their drinking water supply…
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This year, through July 2, Bakersfield has violated the federal health based ozone standard 28 times…
As residents of this hardscrabble Kings County town just off Interstate 5 continue their long wait for clean tap water, they hope to keep benefiting from a state program providing bottled water in the interim…
[A]rsenic levels in the drinking water at some schools in the San Joaquin Valley exceed the maximum federal safety levels by as much as three times…
There are about 300 communities in California whose drinking water violates health standards, according to the State Water Resources Control Board…
Documents obtained by In These Times show that California’s fossil fuel industry is trying to rewrite state climate policy to its liking…
This week, a court in California overturned a permit allowing the expansion of an oil-by-rail terminal near Bakersfield, California…
The next phase of our climate innovation must be clearly linked to addressing environmental-justice concerns in communities that are disproportionately affected by pollution and on the front lines of climate change…
In a major legal victory against oil trains, the California Court of Appeal for the 5th District has ruled that the San Joaquin Air Pollution Control District violated the California Environmental Quality Act when it approved permits for the Bakersfield Crude Terminal…