This week in Fresnoland, Monica reported on the air quality forecast through the Thanksgiving holiday. Dayana wrote about the 7-Eleven planned in southeast Fresno, despite community opposition…
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When the Biden administration takes office on January 20, environmentalists will breathe a collective sigh of relief…
Over four decades, Mary Nichols has been the regulator behind some of the nation’s most ambitious climate policies and, in recent years, she’s been their staunchest defender against President Donald Trump’s effort to dismantle them…
This week, the Los Angeles Times published a story I’ve been working on for months. It’s about efforts by fossil fuel companies and their allies to claim the moral high ground by casting the industry as an ally of communities of color, even as its products fuel a global crisis that disproportionately harms people who aren’t white…
Californians can go to their local Superior Court to challenge the state Energy Commission’s approval of large new power plants that use natural gas or other fuels, a state appeals court has ruled, overturning a state law backed by energy companies…
Two of the nation’s largest gas utilities said this week they would launch one of the country’s first demonstrations of blending renewable hydrogen into natural gas pipelines, sparking a debate about whether the concept is cost-effective for cutting emissions…
A California appeals court has struck down unconstitutional limits on the rights of citizens to challenge the location of power plants in their communities…
COVID-19 has changed how the world functions, and it seems like it is not going anywhere as we are close to entering the new year…
The man who presided over one of the most ambitious climate change agendas in the world has some advice for Joe Biden, who in a matter of weeks will become president of the only nation in the world to have signed and then left the Paris climate agreement…
Recent California climate news is about the past, present, and future of climate policy. Last month the state released their 2018 emissions inventory, showing a decline in transportation emissions…