Roy Dowd sniffed the air during a dairy tour he was leading last week on the edge of Bakersfield. “That’s the smell of money,” joked the director of operations, maintenance and research at a Visalia company, California Bioenergy LLC, helping local dairies turn manure into a new revenue stream…
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For years, critics of California’s cap-and-trade program have lambasted it as a government slush fund…
Represented by the environmental organization Earthjustice, the Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity filed suit in court in an effort to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to fulfill its obligations to protect affected communities from unhealthful levels of ozone smog…
California has a drinking water problem. A million people in the state lack consistent access to safe drinking water. Governor Newsom has called it a disgrace. So have many others. Because it is…
During soaring heatwaves, the state requires water, breaks, and a simple tarp—as long as it’s big enough for the whole farm crew…
Sacramento, CA, June 13, 2019: Pesticide use in California topped two hundred million pounds for the third year in a row in 2017, according to data just released by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation…
Pesticide use in California topped two hundred million pounds for the third year in a row in 2017, according to data just released by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation…
In Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first State of the State address, he urged every Californian to muster the political will to address a problem he called “a moral disgrace and … a medical emergency.” He was talking about California’s water…
Nayamin Martinez, Executive Director of the Central California Environmental Justice Network shares with Jim Grant what the Central Valley Environmental Justice Network (CCEJN) is doing to transform communities affected by pollution in Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley…
The Central California Environmental Justice Network and allies hand-delivered 90,000 public comments to the Bakersfield Bureau of Land Management office Monday morning, hours before the public comment deadline came to a close…