It is time to work with our most vulnerable communities to increase resiliency and environmental health, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions…
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The California Environmental Justice Alliance’s 2017 Environmental Justice Legislative Agenda features a diverse set of bills that will address climate change, promote equitable transportation planning and funding, ensure safe and affordable drinking water for all communities, require oil refineries to install air monitoring systems, fight for affordable housing, and defund the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline…
California climate regulators yesterday approved rules to slash methane, refrigerants and soot particles that are among the most potent contributors to global warming…
As Donald Trump’s presidency barely passes its one-month mark, Trump has launched profound threats against immigrants and refugees, our human rights, and our climate. In the face of his hateful and destructive policies, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are rising up. Recently, 10 out of 14 members of the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders resigned in protest. In California, we are resisting in many different ways.
There is still some hope that enough members of Congress will have the courage to stop the recent attacks on important environmental protections, including the Wasted Methane and Gas Rule…
California opened another front in its fight against global warming on Thursday, launching a new strategy for slashing so-called super pollutants that have an outsize impact on the climate. The plan targets emissions such as methane from cow manure, black carbon from diesel exhaust and hydrofluorocarbons from refrigerators.
East Porterville residents whose wells have ran dry from years of drought now have the option to connect to the City of Porterville’s water system for free. State Department of Water Resources, local officials and volunteers gathered at Granite Hills High School the evening of Feb. 22 to explain the connection, whose fees can reach up to $10,000. State and local grants total about $20 million to make those connections for the area.
Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric revealed plans to invest $1 billion to build a comprehensive electric transportation infrastructure designed to reduce air pollution, curtail production of greenhouse gases and modernize transportation in every aspect from personal commutes to the state’s giant diesel-powered freight industry.
The official focus of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing yesterday was a revived Republican bill to rewrite key tenets of the Clean Air Act, but Democrats took it as an opportunity to pre-emptively question the potential impact of newly proposed budget cuts on U.S. EPA…
Dozens of California communities have experienced recent rates of childhood lead poisoning that surpass those of Flint, Michigan, with one Fresno locale showing rates nearly three times higher, blood testing data obtained by Reuters shows…