In the winter of 2001, Tom Frantz and a friend were cruising in his pick-up truck along a stretch of Highway 33 in Kern County, California. Known as the Petroleum Highway, this particular stretch of the roadway cuts across some of the state’s largest oil fields…
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In the San Joaquin Valley, where we breathe some of the dirtiest air in the United States, California’s infamous smog is not just a statistic. It’s a fact that follows us every day and affects every breath…
On the heels of numerous requests from community residents, the Kern County Board of Supervisors has created a new economic opportunity zone to help spur improvements in and around the Lamont area…
NPCA and others are suing the EPA over its failure to enforce deadlines covering state air quality plans in the San Joaquin Valley and nearby Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks…
On Tuesday, the Trump administration took the long-anticipated step of reversing an Obama-era rule that would’ve helped prevent leaking, venting, and flaring of methane from oil and gas operations…
As California begins handing out $2.5 billion in state funds for several new water management projects, a shift is taking place in the ways officials are considering storing water…
Kira Hinslea wanted to play outside, but she knew she couldn’t until her mom checked an air-quality app on her phone…
Hundreds of demonstrators crowded the streets of downtown San Francisco on Thursday morning, banging drums and chanting as they called on local and world leaders at the Global Climate Action Summit to do more to address climate change and pollution…
California’s system of dams and canals is made of equal parts concrete and injustice. Injustice is baked into the system, which unfairly burdens Stockton and the Delta…
In their ongoing effort to sink Governor Jerry Brown’s California Water Fix and Eco Restore project, formerly known as the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, the group calling itself Restore the Delta is out with a new report on “environmental justice” in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta…