Out of all the Joe Biden administration’s suite of executive orders on climate signed on Wednesday, advocates in California have latched on to one in particular: a promise to halt new oil and gas lease sales on public lands and offshore and to review existing leases…
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Market-based environmental policies are widely adopted on the basis of allocative efficiency. However, there is growing concern that these market forces could widen existing disparities in pollution exposure between disadvantaged and other communities…
Market-based environmental policies are widely adopted on the basis of allocative efficiency. However, there is growing concern that these market forces could widen existing disparities in pollution exposure between disadvantaged and other communities…
Last August, the Western U.S. experienced a record-breaking heatwave, eventually causing CAISO to initiate rolling blackouts in California for the first time in two decades…
Efforts to better protect Shafter residents from accidental exposure to pesticides appear to have hit an impasse after local talks broke down late last year and Kern’s ag commissioner this month rejected a senior state official’s attempt at intervention…
Out of all the Biden administration’s suite of executive orders on climate signed on Wednesday, advocates in California have latched on to one in particular: a promise to halt new oil and gas lease sales on public lands and offshore and to review existing leases…
Communities of color that have long suffered from fossil fuel pollution are harnessing growing influence on the national stage as President Biden races to address climate change…
The Legislature must require polluting facilities to provide proof they can pay to clean up contamination during operations and upon closure…
President Biden’s categorical rejection of climate change denialism in sweeping executive orders this week sent Gov. Gavin Newsom on a victory lap after years of wrestling with the Trump administration and automakers over mileage standards…
When Joe Biden last month was mulling over whom to name as his Interior secretary, entrusted with hundreds of millions of acres of public land, a network of nascent environmental groups eager for clout made a move that defied the usual Washington playbook…