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Environmental justice goals and policies are coming to the general plans of California cities and counties…
Dead trees will continue being turned into electricity near Fresno for another five years after a biomass plant in Malaga got a contract to supply Southern California Edison…
Over the past seven years, environmental justice groups have gone from fringe to front and center of California’s climate change policies…
With less than two months before the inauguration of Donald Trump for president on January 20, movement leaders are working non-stop to organize…
Kettleman City’s long-delayed clean water plant appears to have cleared all obstacles that have been standing in the way of construction starting…
There are more dairy cows in the Golden State than anywhere else in the country…
Air quality has deteriorated over the past week as pollutants are being trapped closer to ground level by the warmer air of an inversion layer that is also lower than normal…
[O]n Oct. 20, for the first time, instead of hearing we’ve done all we could or feeling like air pollution is just a way of life for Valley residents, the California Air Resources Board decided to delay approval of the San Joaquin Valley Air District’s plan to clean up our wintertime pollution (PM 2.5) and take a closer look at what more can be done…
Safe drinking water is a concern for the entire state and nitrate pollution causes acute health threats for farmers and farm workers…