This month, California missed a vital opportunity to significantly improve the quality of life for residents in some of our state’s most vulnerable and underserved communities…
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The end of annual budget negotiations usually brings a sense of calm to the Capitol, but behind the scenes Gov. Jerry Brown has intensified his efforts to reach a deal with lobbyists and lawmakers on a blueprint for California’s future climate change policies…
[M]any public health and climate activists insist offsets are a poor substitute for actual emissions cuts, and in fact, might be making pollution worse in some communities…
California has one of the world’s most sophisticated and ambitious cap-and-trade programs, which are designed to provide financial incentives to big polluters, such as electricity providers and oil refineries, to lower their greenhouse gas emissions…
On Thursday, Pruitt told a House subcommittee that the EPA is not reviewing California’s lone-in-the-country authority to set air-quality standards tougher than those found elsewhere in the nation…
In the Central Valley of California, hundreds of wells that provide water to a million people are tainted with a chemical that some experts say is one of the most powerful cancer-causing agents in the world. The state is poised to take the first step Tuesday to regulate the substance — called 1,2,3, TCP — but test data compiled by an activist group show it’s also been detected by utilities across the country…
The California State Legislature has passed a resolution in response to a federal review ordered by the president of 22 national monuments, six of them in California…
CEJC, representing over 60 EJ organizations from all over the state, will host its third statewide conference since its founding in 2014 to discuss our common struggles and common goals!…
[G]rowing pressure from communities that are passing the bans could be a game changer in the future, as environmentalists continue to make the case that the foam plastic known as polystyrene is associated with myriad ecological hazards…
A series of hearings began today in Kern County in a lawsuit over an ordinance that could allow up to 70,000 new oil and gas wells there over the next two decades…