The Valley Air District on Tuesday declared air quality in the central San Joaquin Valley has never been worse and urged residents to stay indoors…
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on Friday submitted comments slamming the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact evaluating the impacts of selling seven oil and gas leases totaling more than 4,000 acres in Kern County…
If California’s new governor had looked too good to be true in his first months in office, environmentalists would soon learn the truth…
More than 85 conservation, environmental justice, public health and community groups submitted a letter to the Bureau of Land Management on Friday opposing the Bureau’s first oil and gas lease sale of federal public lands in California in eight years…
Governor Newsom knows how to fool some of the people with his most recent symbolic announcement, but we see through the fluff. Here’s the real scoop on his Executive order…
More than 85 conservation, environmental justice, public health and community groups submitted a letter to the Bureau of Land Management today opposing the Bureau’s first oil and gas lease sale of federal public lands in California in eight years…
Almost five years have passed since regional air quality regulators undertook a comprehensive analysis of pollution created by open burning of agricultural waste…
Conservation and environmental justice groups filed a legal petition today that demands the California Public Utilities Commission stop letting carbon-polluting biomass projects take advantage of programs meant to benefit clean energy…
I haven’t ventured out of my apartment for too much on-the-ground reporting since the pandemic began…
A Central California water board is poised to do something rare in American agriculture: It is trying to establish enforcement mechanisms — not just toothless regulations — to limit the use of farm fertilizers that contribute to dangerous levels of groundwater pollution…