California’s proposal to construct two massive tunnels underneath the Delta northwest of the city to divert Sacramento River water south would “devastate” Stockton and other communities in and around the Delta, especially what a new report refers to as “environmental justice communities” that often have been ignored in the discussion around the tunnels…
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The environmental advocacy group Restore the Delta will release a major report this afternoon on the potential negative impact that will be felt by the Delta region’s poorest residents if Gov. Jerry Brown’s Twin Tunnels project is built….
As California prepares to shift to 100% renewable energy by 2045–so far, it’s the largest economy in the world to commit to such an aggressive goal–the state needs to double down on its production of local clean energy….
As California Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit kicked off Thursday, indigenous and climate justice activists blocked the main entrance in protest. While the protests took place outside the GCAS, Gov. Brown and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the U.N. special envoy for climate action, were inside…
As Governor Jerry Brown and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg opened the Global Climate Action Summit Thursday, they were greeted by hundreds of protesters and direct action outside Moscone Center, led by the indigenous and frontline communities hit hardest by climate chaos….
Hundreds of protesters marched through South of Market on Thursday morning, shutting down traffic as they moved toward the Moscone Convention Center to demonstrate against Gov. Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit….
You might think that local environmentalists would be fawning over Governor Jerry Brown this week. After all, he just signed bills to move the state to 100% renewable electricity and ban. But instead, many of them are protesting at his international climate change conference in San Francisco. What’s going on?…
Almost everything in Orcutt, California, feels like a testament to its origins as a 20th century oil boomtown—not least its name. William Warren Orcutt, a pioneer of petroleum geology and the man who helped Union Oil strike it big in the Golden State, founded the town in 1904…
On the day that Abdon “Audon” Felix García died, his body temperature hit. He had spent that morning in the summer of 2008 at a central California vineyard loading boxes of table grapes on a truck to be transported to cold storage. García’s body couldn’t recover from the heavy labor in the extreme heat, and he stopped breathing as he sat in the passenger seat on the way to the storage facility….
California Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 100 on Monday, committing the world’s fifth largest economy to 100 percent clean electricity by 2045. He also issued an executive order establishing a new target to achieve carbon neutrality….