Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday approved $900 million in funding for environmental programs, signing legislation that frees up an unusually large influx of cash for wide-ranging initiatives aimed at cleaning up California’s notoriously dirty air…
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The report, “A Preliminary Environmental Equity Assessment of California’s Cap-And-Trade Program,” authored by Rachel Morello-Frosch, Manuel Pastor, James Sadd, Lara Cushing, Madeline Wander, and Allen Zhu, demonstrates that polluters using the cap and trade system are adversely impacting environmental justice communities…
The Governor just signed into law two historic bills. SB 32 sets ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and AB 197 enacts new reforms at California Air Resources Board, the leading regulatory agency in charge of implementation, and directs the agency to ensure there are emission reductions in environmental justice communities…
The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) congratulates the Community Water Center on reaching its 10-year milestone…
A new report from the Donald Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy at UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education presents a climate policy equity framework to help California decision-makers reduce greenhouse gas emissions while promoting economic, social and environmental equity…
California Governor Jerry Brown just signed major new climate change legislation, and people will be grappling for a while with what the new laws will mean on the ground—and how California will be able to achieve its new greenhouse gas reduction targets…
Five Kings County water systems have violated federal arsenic standards at some point during the last five years, according to a report released Tuesday by the Environmental Integrity Project…
An environmental group said Monday that 55,000 people statewide are at risk of drinking tap water contaminated with arsenic, and many of the communities are poor, mostly Latino towns in the San Joaquin Valley…
More than three years after the federal government found California in noncompliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act, 95 public water systems serving more than 55,000 people across the state are still providing water with illegal levels of arsenic, according to a new report by the Environmental Integrity Project…
The almond harvest is upon us, and if you live or drive anywhere near an almond orchard, you know what that means…