Gov. Jerry Brown has chosen two of his closest advisors on environmental and climate change issues to fill positions on the California Public Utilities Commission, the powerful state agency that regulates energy companies and the telecommunications industry…
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A historic year for environmental justice saw government failures in Flint, a resurgent Native voice, and a merging of movements. We’re watching where it’s headed in the new year…
Safe water is a basic human right, not a privilege. Yet each year, more than one million Californians are exposed to unsafe drinking water from the taps in their homes and schools…
Donald Trump has now confirmed what many climate activists have known since the beginning: He will not be a friend of ours…
California’s cornerstone environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act, has served as a convenient scapegoat for all that ills our economy…
As the political landscape takes a frightening turn, California’s renewable-energy and energy-efficiency policy is a beacon for working families on the front lines of pollution and poverty…
Now linked to cancer, the toxin was waste from a plastic-making process…
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is dedicated to the integration of environmental justice principles and goals into its public health and air-quality programs, policies and activities…
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is accepting applications to fill open seats on its Environmental Justice Advisory Group…
A Reuters examination of lead testing results across the country found almost 3,000 areas with poisoning rates far higher than in the tainted Michigan city…