The San Joaquin Valley’s air quality got an “F” in the latest American Lung Association’s State of the Air Report…
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The California Environmental Justice Alliance’s 2016 Environmental Justice Legislative Agenda features a diverse set of bills that will address climate, land use, budget investments, power plant siting, natural gas storage, water and transit issues that impact disadvantaged communities…
A report just out by the American Lung Association is grading the state of California by county air quality…
On a 5-2 vote, the Senate Environmental Quality Committee today passed legislation authored by Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) that would require the development of an Environmental Justice element for future General Plans…
Two bills that had the potential to increase equity in transportation planning died yesterday for lack of support…
On Monday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported accounts of unusually candid comments by an oil and natural gas industry executive, Terry Bossert, at a Pennsylvania Bar Institute gathering in Harrisburg this April…
Two bills that had the potential to increase equity in transportation planning died yesterday for lack of support…
Federal approval for a Kern County refinery to process 70,000 barrels of oil a day will exacerbate the already dismal air quality in the San Joaquin Valley, environmentalist claim in court…
Northern California Democrats called for an investigation Thursday into a settlement agreement between the Obama administration and the Westlands Water District that would end a long-running dispute over toxic irrigation runoff that led to an environmental disaster at the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in 1983…
In case unfavorable market conditions haven’t already killed a proposal to reopen the Alon refinery on Rosedale Highway, environmental groups filed a lawsuit this week asking federal officials to challenge the plant’s air permits…