The lawyers in the California Attorney General’s office are significantly less diverse than the state they represent in court…
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Burning trash has a long history in the United States, and municipal solid waste incinerators have sparked resistance in many places…
Keishaun White is on a mission to help empower families through education– and access. Over the past two years, the 18-year-old has researched and launched a project to monitor the air quality throughout the city of Fresno…
California lawmakers are poised to fund the cleanup of dirty drinking water in the state’s poorest communities — a problem most everyone agrees needs to be addressed…
Chevron USA Inc. announced Tuesday it has partnered with a Visalia-based company to help fund up to 18 dairy “digesters” that would harvest methane from cow manure in Kern, Kings and Tulare counties…
More than 60 farmworkers are recovering after a hazmat emergency Tuesday morning near Dinuba.
Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, 89, mounted the north steps of the Capitol on Monday afternoon. She stood aside safe water activists to celebrate the state’s $130 million safe water funding proposal and pressure legislators to pass the measure this week…
Failing water systems throughout the southern San Joaquin Valley will get a $15 million boost thanks to the efforts of state Sen. Melissa Hurtado, a Sanger Democrat…
Combat climate change, or clean up the water? Legislators chose to dip into a greenhouse gas fund to fight California’s drinking water problem. The move alarmed environmentalists and legislators on both sides of the aisle — but it could soon become the norm…
Oregon is on the precipice of becoming the second state after California to adopt a cap-and-trade program, a market-based approach to lowering the greenhouse gas emissions behind global warming…