As the EPA threatens to pull the state’s highway funding over air quality, Central Valley residents fear the dispute could render their region even more polluted…
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Governor Newsom signed AB 1628, authored by Assemblymember Robert Rivas (D-Hollister).“I am thrilled that Governor Newsom has signed AB 1628 into law…”
This article is part one of a two-part series addressing domestic and international developments related to carbon pricing and related programs aimed at regulating or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Part one covers state and regional carbon pricing developments…
A decade ago, there seemed to be a Kumbaya trend in climate policy. Politicians of many stripes were saying that pricing CO2 and other greenhouse gases should be the first-line policy of choice against climate change…
While the federal government attempts to undo California’s continued efforts and successes on air quality, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a measure authored by Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) that establishes ‘smog check’ requirements for heavy-duty diesel trucks in California…
The Environmental Protection Agency has accused the state of failing to comply with federal clean air policy…
Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have outraged the world. But what can people living far from the world’s largest rainforest do to save it?
It’s well-chronicled that pollution, much like wealth, isn’t equitable in the U.S. The largely Latino and Asian farming communities of the Central Valley breathe some of the worst air in the nation.
Mary Creasman, CEO of the California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV), issued a statement responding to the Governor’s veto of SB 1 that accused Newsom of “siding with Trump and corporations over California’s families and wildlife” and noting that the Governor is “sending a clear message that California’s values are up for grabs…”
Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have outraged the world. But what can people living far from the world’s largest rainforest do to save it?