HB 2021, Oregon’s “100% Clean Electricity” bill just approved by the legislature and sent to Governor Brown’s desk for signing, aligns with New York for the most aggressive state clean electricity goal in the country—zero greenhouse gas emissions in the grid by 2040…
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As drought settles over the San Joaquin Valley, a new report warns of other circumstances that could result in entire communities losing drinking water…
Last week, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) announced the introduction of the Lead-Free Drinking Water for All Act, an ambitious effort to invest $45 billion to replace every lead service line and pipe in America over the next 10 years…
Local governments are, definitionally, closer to the public they serve than state governments and certainly the federal government. Yet it’s not all that easy to engage with local governments…
The Supreme Court on Friday said an expanded number of small refineries can seek an exemption from certain renewable fuel requirements…
On June 21, the California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM), the agency in charge of regulating oil and gas operations, missed yet another deadline to draft public health regulations to protect people living near oil and gas wells…
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Thursday voted to approve an 11.5 GW procurement package composed entirely of clean energy resources that will come online in the middle of the decade, marking its largest-ever capacity procurement ordered at once…
On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) ordered electricity providers to build 11,500 megawatts (MW) of new zero-emission electricity resources to come online between 2023-2026…
“This is the most aggressive approach to tackling environmental injustice and equity issues,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan told BuzzFeed News…
The only functioning well in the rural community of Teviston broke in early June, leaving over 700 residents without running water…