The climate crisis may have only recently found its way onto the radar of many, but the dangers that poor environmental health can have on a person’s well-being are not new to broad swaths of the population…
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It turns out that Los Angeles could require “setbacks,” or buffer zones, between oil and gas wells and homes and other structures. But will they? Maybe not…
Local government meetings can be dry, drawn-out affairs even during non-pandemic times. Nowadays they typically involve sitting at home and straining to hear a crackly audio feed, or watching a grainy video if you’re lucky…
Polluters in California will have to report and monitor several hundred additional types of air toxins, including some so-called forever chemicals, under state regulatory changes approved Thursday…
Hundreds of dairies in the Central Valley are racing toward a March 2021 deadline to complete plans for managing nitrate runoff and for providing safe drinking water to impacted communities…
Private wells in the central San Joaquin Valley are at risk of water quality issues, failing equipment and declining groundwater levels. Is your drinking water safe? What will you do if the well goes dry?
What do the election results mean for Californians facing the worst air pollution in the country and catastrophic impacts of climate change…
California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols has led the agency for 13 years and established herself as a leader in not just the Golden State…C
A three-year investigation released today — Loud and Clear: what public regulatory complaints reveal about California’s oversight of oil and gas pollution and whom it serves — shows that while California leads among six states examined…
The Biden-Harris Clean Energy Plan is a 400-plus-page project of “Clean Energy for Biden,” a group of clean economy leaders, advocates, policymakers, and former government officials that came together in April to help formulate a platform and help get a new president in the White House…