With over one million Californians exposed to unsafe drinking water each year, California has a drinking water crisis on its hands…
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In 2006, California voters approved Proposition 84, a ballot measure that directed $5.4 billion to build parks, protect natural resources and improve the state’s water quality and supply…
[U]nder a plan state air regulators are considering, industries that emit greenhouse gas pollution in California could form multimillion dollar relationships with indigenous communities like Kuntanawa’s by paying them to preserve trees deep in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil…
123 TCP (1,2,3-trichloropropane) is a toxic chemical contaminating groundwater in cities and small communities across California…
I voted to support AB 32, which promised a new path toward cleaner air for millions of children in the Central Valley…
Nobody likes to come home with a disappointing report card, but recently that’s what we got when the American Lung Association gave the Central Valley a failing grade for its air quality…
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District states all kinds of excuses from “old data from 2012-2014 and five years of drought.”…
[W]hen prisons are built on or next to former superfund sites, mines, and landfills, the EPA doesn’t require that environmental reviews consider the health of the convicts who will live there, says Paul Wright, the director of the Human Rights Defense Center, a nonprofit that lobbies on behalf of prisoners…
The 98,000 square-foot retail building that housed Forever 21 at the Hanford Mall has been sold to a developer, Jim Gortikov of Santa Monica in a deal that closed April 7…
Here’s a statistic that, no matter how many times we report about it, still sounds shocking: More than a million Californians lack access to safe, clean drinking water…