Water Deeply recently sat down with Gleick to talk about the evolution of California water issues over the last three decades and the biggest problems facing the state…
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Last Friday, a solution finally came to one of Tulare County’s hardest hit communities—but it wasn’t easy, and it’s not the end…
Several residents expressed concerns about the health of their children and air pollution, water pollution and the powerful oil industry…
The first of several East Porterville neighborhoods that have been without a safe water supply for up to three years was connected to the Porterville city water supply Aug. 19, through a multi-phase project designed to provide a reliable water supply to an area called “ground zero” of the state’s severe drought…
Assembly Bill 197, would boost legislative oversight of the state’s leading climate regulator, the California Air Resources Board, and would require the agency to focus more attention on cutting emissions from local refineries and manufacturers…
In early 2015, Democratic members of the state Assembly huddled in a Cal State Sacramento conference room to hear Mary Nichols, chair of the powerful Air Resources Board, explain how her agency handles the billions of dollars collected from California’s marquee program to fight climate change…
On July 28th, CEJA hosted a Statewide Green Zones Convening that brought together over 120 community leaders from almost 50 organizations to cross-train and develop strategies for creating Green Zones across the state and build support for our Green Zones bills AB 2722 and SB 1000…
Local elementary school districts have been monitoring the air conditions because of recent wildfires in Kern, San Luis Obispo and Monterey counties…
California’s cap-and-trade program has generated more than a billion dollars the state can now earmark for a wide range of pollution-control measures, with a focus on transportation and environmental justice…
More than a decade ago, Los Angeles County sanitation officials made a deal with a Central Valley farmer that seemed to solve an intractable problem for both sides…