A Massachusetts company submitting what it views as a solution to developing the Hydrogen Energy California project, planned outside of Bakersfield…
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Miguel Bibanco lives 15 minutes on the outskirts of the City of Kerman in the Central San Joaquín Valley…
Communities across the U.S. are experiencing first-hand the health harms of fracking and other extreme forms of oil and gas extraction…
Air quality officials are launching a program intended to reduce the amount of pollution kids are breathing in the San Joaquin Valley…
Carbon offsets (“offsets”) are projects that are supposed to lower greenhouse gas emissions: one offset “credit” is the same as one ton of CO2 removed or avoided from our air. Through AB 32 and California’s Cap-and-Trade program, companies can trade pollution permits (“allowances”) and/or buy a certain number of offsets in order to achieve the state’s goal to reduce its emissions to 1990 levels by 2020…
Former Senator Dean Florez says the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District isn’t doing enough to protect the health of local residents. Last week Florez was appointed to the powerful California Air Resources Board (CARB) by California Senate leader Kevin de Leon…
There have been few times, historically, when we in the Central Valley of California looked to Sacramento leadership and thanked them for considering the unique needs of our region when making important decisions that affect our lives, our families and more importantly — the air we breathe…
The company behind a gas leak that forced several Arvin families from their homes last year has been fined $75,000…
Según un estudio la mezcla de uno o más pesticidas que se usan en los campos agrícolas puede causar un doble impacto en la salud ante los resultados una coalición busca hacer cambios a nivel legal…
Parents and community activists say a new report shows fumigants widely used in the central San Joaquin Valley may pose a greater health risk when applied together, and on Thursday they urged the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to increase buffer zones around schools to protect children…