Imagine Joe Biden is wrapping up the first year of his presidency, and long-awaited legislation to address climate change is just shy of the finish line. It’s been a slog, with swing-vote conservatives bargaining to water down the bill, protect their pet industries, and add pork-barrel projects…
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A statewide water shutoff moratorium has kept the tap on for Californians who haven’t been able to pay their water bill in the midst of the pandemic-driven economic crisis. But ratepayer debt has been accruing for months now, leading to revenue losses for water providers across the state…
The recent executive order accelerating California’s transition toward zero-emission vehicles may not have been the total death sentence some feared for Kern County’s petroleum industry…
In a historic win for public health, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation today announced a decisive end to the brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos in California…
This week EWG released an analysis showing that in California’s majority-Latino communities, 5.25 million people drink tap water contaminated with nitrate at levels at or above the federal limit…
An environmental document central to Kern’s push to reinstitute streamlined local oil permitting will be revised and put back out for public comment no later than early November, the county announced Friday…
California Governor Newsom has been busy on the climate front. In addition to issuing an executive order to end sales of all gas-powered vehicles in the state, he created a statewide climate corps to enlist every Californian in the fight against climate change…
Opponents of Kern’s efforts to streamline local oil and gas permitting launched a campaign Thursday intended to persuade the county Board of Supervisors to back off the initiative…
In California’s majority-Latino communities, 5.25 million people drink tap water contaminated with nitrate at levels at or above the federal limit, according to an Environmental Working Group analysis of state and federal data… In California’s majority-Latino communities, 5.25 million people drink tap water contaminated with nitrate at levels at or above the federal limit, according to an Environmental Working Group analysis of state and federal data.