After last week’s blog, a helpful reader told me environmental groups already have filed the proper paperwork with EPA to file another lawsuit forcing it to review the possibility of regulating ammonia as a criteria pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
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California Environmental Justice Alliance presents recommendations in voting for propositions in the upcoming ballot.
A state water agency has told some farmers in Tulare County that their operations caused nitrates to get into drinking water, and that the contamination must be replaced with a clean source…
Is California a healthy place to live?…
Away from its sparkling coastal cities and picturesque natural wonders, California hides its massive, steaming pools of literal liquefied shit…
The environmentalists say CAFOs are harmful to citizens living in the area, claiming that “Given the robustness of the data set, this demonstrates a statistically significant correlation between livestock [ammonia emissions] and infant death”…
Cawelo Water District’s irrigation water continued to prove to be a non-story as testing has shown nothing nasty is in the water, nor in the fruit grown with that water.
Since 2014, over 1,600 homes have run completely out of water, making Tulare County the epicenter of the drought…
The new legislation would preserve the state’s international reputation for fighting global warming while grounding it in local concerns over jobs and health, broadening the agenda’s political support and providing a potential road map for future environmental battles…
Prompted by a 2015 state law, the State Water Resources Control Board has begun designing a program to provide state aid to individuals and families who need help paying their water bills…