The state of California is failing in its duty to clean up San Joaquin Valley air, when climate action is more necessary than ever…
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The EPA is allegedly allowing California to avoid federal clean air requirements through its approval of the state’s air quality standards for the San Joaquin Valley, environmental groups say in a petition for review filed in the Ninth Circuit…
California may be a global leader on combating climate change, but state regulators have allowed companies like Chevron to make millions from inland oil spills that can endanger workers and damage the environment…
An environmental review critical to Kern’s frustrated efforts to streamline local oil permitting has cleared another hurdle as it heads for what could be a final vote of the county Board of Supervisors by the end of this year…
The state of California is failing in its duty to clean up San Joaquin Valley air, when climate action is more necessary than ever…
A bill to reform the Department of Toxic Substances Control has been a long time coming, but will Governor Newsom sign it?
US-style industrial farming has ravaged two of the world’s most fertile regions, California’s Central Valley and the Midwest’s corn belt. But we can build an agriculture system that delivers food in a sustainable way — and empowers farmworkers, too…
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is taking applications to fill an open seat on its Environmental Justice Advisory Group for the role of a Kern County at-large representative…
A bill to reform the Department of Toxic Substances Control has been a long time coming, but will Governor Newsom sign it?
Much of the ire over the fires raging across the Pacific Northwest has thus far been directed at President Trump. But frustrations with California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom are also bubbling over his own climate policies…