Scientists didn’t expect wildf...
Scientists didn’t expect wildfires this terrible for another 30 years
read moreScientists didn’t expect wildfires this terrible for another 30 years
read moreThe Grandson of a Farmworker Now Heads the California Assembly’s Committee on Agriculture
read moreIn a Dry State, Farmers Use Oil Wastewater to Irrigate Their Fields, but is it Safe?
read moreCalifornia inmates fight fires for pennies. Now they have a path to turn pro.
read moreIn the US West Scorched by Wildfires, We Can Barely Breathe. It’s Going to Get Worse.
read moreCalifornia’s attorney general sues Trump for the 100th time — to save the ‘Magna Carta’ of environmental laws
read moreHeat, Smoke and Covid Are Battering the Workers Who Feed America
read moreHow California’s COVID-19 surge widens health inequalities for Black, Latino and low-income residents
read moreAs Covid-19 Surges, California Farmworkers Are Paying a High Price
read moreA Proud California Dairy Farmer Battles for Survival in Wildly Uncertain Times
read more‘Essential’ but Unprotected, Farmworkers Live in Fear of Covid-19 but Keep Working
read moreInside Clean Energy: A Michigan Utility Just Raised the Bar on Emissions-Cutting Plans
read moreThis tiny but mighty California bureau is taking on polluters
read moreCalifornia Lagged in Capping – Homes of LA Residents Plagued by Illness and Odors
read moreRespecting scientists has never been a priority for the Trump Administration. Now, a new investigation from The Guardian revealed that Department of the Interior political appointees sought to play up carbon emissions from California’s wildfires while hiding emissions from fossil fuels as a way to encourage more logging in the national forests controlled by the Interior department.
read moreBig Pharma spends a small fortune every year buying politicians to make sure we can’t import prescription drugs from Canada, but they’re more than happy to sell us contaminated medications from countries with weak manufacturing controls and exploitable labor that ensure high profit margins.
read moreEducation is a fundamental right, codified in the constitutions of nearly half of the 50 states including California and in international law.
read moreA new study examines the human health costs of the fires.
read moreFor several months in 2019, it seemed wildfires wouldn’t rage across the West as they had in recent years. But then came the dry autumn and California’s Santa Ana and Diablo winds, which can drive the spread of wildfires
read moreAt the beginning of October, my kids’ preschool informed me that it might be closed the next day because of rolling blackouts — a radical new effort by our local power utility in Northern California to avoid sparking wildfires.
read morePG&E is turning off the power to protect against another fire. It’s created a new kind of disaster.
read more“This is political retribution against California, plain and simple.”
read morePresident Trump’s political feud with California has spread collateral damage across more than a dozen other states, which have seen their regulatory authority curtailed and their autonomy threatened by a Trump administration intent on weakening the environmental statutes of the country’s most populous state.
read moreWriting in the Los Angeles Times, two top university investment officials said it was the long-term risk posed by fossil fuel investments, rather than concerns over the environment, that led them to pull some $150 million in fossil fuel assets from the university endowment.
read moreCalifornia is facing yet another real estate-related crisis, but we’re not talking about its sky-high home prices. According to newly released data, it’s simply become too risky to insure houses in big swaths of the wildfire-prone state.
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