Tulare County has been working with local nonprofits to provide and refill storage tanks for low-income families who’ve run out of well water…
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The end of the legislative session is always full of twists and turns, and this year was no exception. What did make this year exceptional was the amount of environmental justice legislation that made it through the process. CEJA and our members were thrilled to see several of our priority bills make it to the Governor’s desk…
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District has recently developed a five-point proposal to weaken the federal Clean Air Act. For over 40 years, the Clean Air Act has reduced air pollution and the risk of its harmful effects. Last week, void of a transparent public process and against the advice of the only scientist and only medical doctor on the board, the district developed the proposal and traveled to Washington, D.C., to push its legislative platform…
After a string of long days, late-night committee hearings, fact sheets prepared, opponents’ claims debunked, and unprecedented engagement from Californians up and down the state, the State Legislature completed business for 2015 and sent hundreds of bills to Governor Brown’s desk. NRDC and our partners in public health, clean energy, business, labor, and other environmental and environmental justice groups successfully advocated for several strong bills that are now awaiting action from the Governor…
Oliver L. Baines III, Buddy Mendes and J. Steven Worthley should immediately resign their positions on the board of the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. They openly admit in their op-ed that they can’t do the job and are seeking instead to move the goal posts using a political fix that doesn’t have a chance of surviving congressional gridlock…
The Department of Toxic Substances Control is under fire over racially-charged emails between two of its senior scientists. The two men have been disciplined, the attorney general’s office has investigated the exchanges, an oversight panel says it will conduct an inquiry, and some activists say the scandal confirms their suspicions of systemic bias…
The national push for alternative energy sources often does not reach one of the largest segments of the U.S. population: low-income, minority communities.
But a bill on California Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk is the most ambitious in the nation to focus on a population that is frequently seen as the last to benefit from green technologies.
The Multi-Family Affordable Housing Solar Roofs program will pay up to $100 million a year for at least 10 years to install solar panels on 210,000 affordable housing units…
The federal Clean Air Act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1970 and last amended by Congress in 1990 under President George H.W. Bush. It has served the nation well.
However, over the last 25 years important lessons have been learned from implementing the law. Now it is clear that a number of well-intentioned provisions in the Act are leading to unintended consequences…