As the western United States struggles with chronic water shortages and a changing climate, scientists are warning that if vast underground stores of fresh water that California and other states rely on are not carefully conserved, they too may soon run dry…
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In California’s top farming regions, up to 250,000 consumers are highly susceptible to encountering nitrate contamination in their drinking water…
Five years into a drought, California is facing essential decisions about its water future…
A bill backed by the California State Senate leadership would help to fund several important projects in the San Joaquin Valley and clean the air…
California doubled down on its green economy Wednesday as the legislature passed a pair of bills that set ambitious new targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions…
California’s state legislature has given final approval to a package of two bills that climate campaigners say contain the “most aggressive” climate goals in North America…
California will extend its landmark climate change legislation to 2030, a move that climate specialists say solidifies the state’s role as a leader in the effort to curb heat-trapping emissions…
Less than a month after critical climate legislation was declared dead by Capitol insiders, oil lobbyists, and some California legislators, today we celebrate passage of two bills that together enact the most aggressive emissions targets in North America and require California – the world’s sixth-largest economy – to reduce carbon pollution to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030…
The California legislature made climate history on Wednesday, passing two historic pieces of legislation: SB 32, by Senator Pavley, and AB 197 by Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia…