President-elect Joe Biden is facing pressure from dueling factions as he gets close to naming people to carry out his environmental policies: traditionalists who are pushing experienced hands and activists eager for fresh thinking…
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Krishna Feldman has more to worry about than students returning books on time. She is the librarian at Ohlone Elementary School in Santa Cruz County, where testing found toxic levels of a contaminant called chromium-6 in water coming out of drinking fountains…
The Trump administration opened bidding for gas and oil drilling leases on California public land Thursday, putting 4,000 acres of resources up for sale in the first auction of its kind in eight years…
As soon as Joseph R. Biden Jr. tapped Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, people began talking about how this election could herald a significant reshuffling of California’s Democratic politics…
“Commissioner Liane Randolph is an excellent choice to lead CARB. Randolph will help California meet the urgent need to lead on air quality, climate ambition and environmental justice…”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom will announce Wednesday that he is appointing longtime state regulator Liane Randolph as the next chair of the Air Resources Board, an agency that has regularly shaped the U.S. manufacturing landscape through strict environmental requirements…
Governor Newsom today made key appointments to the California Air Resources Board, including a replacement for long-time chair Mary Nichols, who has retired and may be tapped for a federal job…
In the United States, nationwide estimates of public drinking water arsenic exposure are not readily available. We used the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Six-Year Review contaminant occurrence data set to estimate public water arsenic exposure…
A coalition of more than 550 community and conservation organizations today released its Presidential Plastics Action Plan, urging President-elect Joe Biden to take eight key executive actions to solve the plastic pollution crisis…
Mr. Becerra was the first in his family to go to college. As attorney general of California, he took on the Trump administration on nearly every front. But can he take on the pandemic?