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Winner of the Frieze L.A. art fair’s Impact Prize uses quilting to reveal the reality of life in prison.
Rejecting years of unequal treatment, 20,000 low-paid California State University student assistants and workers vote to organize.
Oil and gas firm plans new wells near Aurora Reservoir and the Lowry Landfill Superfund site.
From Biden vs. Trump to an oil well referendum in California, climate change debate is all over the ballot in federal, state and local contests.
But a tax break for low-producing stripper wells gets slipped into a package with green energy breaks.
Opponents say a program that gives valuable credits for making fuels from crops and dairy waste props up fossil fuels companies and pollutes nearby communities.
Supporters say harvesting trees would thin out the state’s overgrown forests; critics say the wood pellets for heating produce more carbon than coal.
Weak laws embolden combative employers, so even with big wins and all-time high support, union membership is not keeping up with workforce growth.
Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers’ pocketbooks. ProPublica and Capital & Main found that the money set aside to fix the problem falls woefully short of the impending cost.
The state has matched fruit and vegetable purchases at farmers markets for low-income residents for seven years. That may soon end.
Douglas Emmett Inc.’s surge in donations began after a city councilman opposed evictions.
Mike Balog has resisted eviction from his rent-controlled apartment for nearly ten years. The strain is wearing him down, but he has nowhere to go.
Pennsylvania governor, who promised 30% renewable electricity by 2030, is suddenly silent.
Organized labor fears a rising nonunion workforce could pull restaurant jobs down from the middle class.
Thousands of low-income patients cannot survive without MLK Hospital. The South L.A. hospital cannot survive on what it is paid by public insurance.
Contributions rise for Democrats as Legislature debates industry regulation.
El Sereno residents used grants and their own money to open a store selling healthy foods at affordable prices.
“Polluting behemoth” Homer City Generating Station was the state’s largest coal-fired power plant.
Years behind bars for drug dealing led the influential proto-punk rocker to work for criminal justice reform.
Concerns over working conditions and patient care amidst hospital consolidation drove Louisiana’s largest union victory since 1993.