Arguably the country’s most experienced environmental official, Nichols was originally considered to be Biden’s top pick to lead the EPA. But after a complaint from environmental justice groups, she faded as a candidate…
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This year, communities in the West experienced an unprecedented wildfire season, record-breaking heat and dangerous air quality levels. As we envisioned a healthier future, we asked ourselves: How can local communities effectively help the fight against climate change?
Twice yearly as a kid, I trekked with my family in our station wagon from Fresno to Reno to visit my grandparents. Along Highway 99, facing the cars behind me about two hours in, I watched miles of green orchards eventually turn into the drab-looking city of Stockton…
I’m so over 2020. So, in the interest of “glass half full,” here is my top 10 list of good things that happened to the environment this year…
Growing up in the Compton/Lynwood area of Los Angeles, near the “diesel death zone” that is the Interstate 710 freeway, Jasmin Vargas is used to breathing the city’s thick smog. But as wildfires continue to blanket vast swaths of California this year, worsening the city’s already polluted air quality, she had to purchase a new inhaler after decades of not using one…
Through four governors, two Obama terms and the Trump administration, Mary Nichols has led the charge to clean up California’s smog and fight climate change. In the process, she has earned herself a reputation as one of the most influential environmental regulators in the country…
President-elect Joe Biden has picked superstars to advance his global warming agenda. The expected appointment this week of former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to oversee Biden’s domestic climate policy comes after he tapped former Democratic presidential nominee and Secretary of State John Kerry to represent his climate priorities abroad…
Except during fire season, the improvement in California’s air quality since the 1980s has been stunning. Back then, L.A.-area kids often had to stay in their classrooms all day during ‘smog alerts,’ and summer days playing outside would be accompanied by a familiar ache in the chest and a sore throat. It’s no wonder bicycling was not very popular.
President-elect Joe Biden will tap US Representative Deb Haaland, Democrat-New Mexico, to head the US Department of the Interior, in a move that could potentially curb fossil fuel development on federal lands, according to various media reports Dec. 17…