With a rallying cry of “Stand with Kern County — Stand up to Big Oil,” environmental activists from outside the area are planning a trip to Bakersfield early next month to support local opponents of a plan to streamline petroleum permitting in California’s busiest oil-producing region…
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Over the past 25 years, important lessons have been learned from implementing the law, and it is clear now that a number of well-intentioned provisions in the Act are leading to unintended consequences…
Stop the Frack Attack National Summit is a national gathering of organizations and advocates that work from different spectrums such as grassroots community organizing, tribal/Native American reservation organizing and policy work around Oil & Gas at all levels…
San Joaquin Valley folks breathed the healthiest air on record most of the 2015 summer, but a smoky September made this year a brutally memorable tale of two seasons…
In these foothills, hundreds of deep holes bored into the ground are being used as disposal sites for water containing high levels of dangerous toxins — including arsenic, thallium and benzene…
The San Joaquin Valley Air District recently found the Covanta biomass incinerator in Delano liable for seven air quality infractions, leading to over $30,000 in penalties…
California’s poor rural communities have been hard hit by the current drought, which has brought drying wells and reduced water quality…
Thirty-seven years ago, I wrote my first story about the environment on a thoroughly modern electric typewriter…
In the 600-person, unincorporated community of Lanare, travel options are limited. One bus heads 30 miles to Fresno in the morning, then comes back in the evening. It takes roughly two hours each way. So Isabel Solorio, a 50-year-old housekeeper and community activist, relies on her old Chevy Suburban to get to doctors’ appointments, clients’ homes, and stores…
Its demanding effficiency rules for appliances and equipment have become a de facto national standard by driving manufacturers to improve their products…