President-elect Joe Biden soured on one of his initial favorites to lead the Environmental Protection Agency after over 70 environmental groups wrote him a letter saying she had a “bleak track record in addressing environmental racism,” The New York Times reported Monday…
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In an unexpected and welcome move, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon appointed Assemblymember Laura Friedman (D-Glendale) to head the Assembly Transportation Committee, replacing chair Assemblymember Jim Frazier (D-Discovery Bay)…
When Joseph R. Biden, Jr. won the presidential election, his top candidate to lead the nation’s most powerful environmental agency appeared clear: Mary D. Nichols, California’s clean air regulator and arguably the country’s most experienced climate change official, was seen as a lock to run the Environmental Protection Agency…
For environmental justice advocates who have spent decades fighting to protect communities from polluters, the new year cannot come too soon. After four years of the Trump administration shredding the Environmental Protection Agency into “little tidbits,” as President Donald Trump put it during his first campaign, change is in the air…
For nearly 50 years, Fresno County leaders have dreamed of building their own city on a hill, in the foothills above Fresno and Clovis next to Millerton Lake…
Kieshaun White, 20, youth environmental justice advocate, has dedicated the last four years to studying air quality in Fresno, horrified at his findings that people in north Fresno have a higher life expectancy — up to 25 years — than those in south Fresno…
2020 has been a significant year for climate change and its many environmental and social impacts. This year is on course to be the world’s hottest recorded year with record-breaking temperatures across the world…
Last week California Gov. Gavin Newsom made another historic appointment when he named Liane Randolph as the first African American to Chair of the California Air Resources Board (CARB)…
California’s poor and diverse communities fueled the state’s record number of voters in November, with ballots cast increasing as much as 42% in Orange County’s poor neighborhoods, an analysis of final voting data shows…