Joe Biden often calls climate change an “emergency.” Soon he will have to decide whether to officially declare it one when he takes office…
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No Presidential ticket has come into office more committed to environmental issues than President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Appropriately, climate change is at the top of their agenda…
Over 70 organizations, led by California-based environmental justice groups, sent a letter to President-Elect Biden on Tuesday urging him to reject Mary Nichols as a prospective nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency…
Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Joseph W. McCullough, 45, of Wilton, has been appointed Chief Deputy Director at the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, where he has served as Division Chief since 2019…
The bankruptcy settlement reached between Exide Technologies and the Department of Justice (DOJ), recently inked in a Delaware bankruptcy court, was a bitter pill to swallow for many community members, environmentalists and officials…
A coalition of some 70 California environmental justice groups, national environmentalists and other organizations sent a letter to Joe Biden’s transition team Thursday asking the incoming president to avoid picking Mary Nichols as head of the Environmental Protection Agency…
Mary Nichols’ work as California’s top air-pollution and climate-change regulator has vaulted her onto the shortlist of candidates for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in President-elect Joe Biden’s administration…
On November 19, 2020, CARB amended its “Regulation for the Reporting of Criteria Air Pollutants and Toxic Air Contaminants” (CTR) and Emission Inventory Criteria and Guidelines Report for The Air Toxics Hot Spots Program…
In a new report, the San Joaquin Valley Air District has released its latest recommendations for reducing agricultural burning to improve air quality…
In this episode Susana says that an estimated one million people in California lack access to safe, reliable drinking water and that most of them are Latino and low-income individuals…