Petroleum industry supports tax breaks for renewable energy projects but legislators refuse.
Homer City Generating Station has been used to delay environmental regulations. Could the infamous site become a symbol for the just transition?
David Weil, whose 2022 Senate confirmation to a Labor Department post was blocked, says fast food companies, ride-sharing services and nonunion builders fear vigorous enforcement of labor laws.
Natalia Molina, historian, author and MacArthur fellow, discusses gentrification and her family’s history of nurturing community.
Can we learn to look at violence as an aspect of pain?
His soap company donates millions to psychedelics research and reforms, which the CEO says can lead to a healthier, more just society.
Diesel exhaust and emissions from plastic production warm the planet over time, while immediately threatening those who inhale their toxic fumes.
Fast food industry contributes to homelessness in California, says new report.
Watchdogs call for creation of an environmental justice office, better monitoring of Clean Air Act violations.
Critics call for removal of state agency’s economic mandate.
How to help health care workers live where they are employed.
The Biden administration has embarked on the most expansive government investment since the Great Society, with ambitious goals for economic and social equity.
Incentives for cow manure methane prop up gas infrastructure — can California do better?
Lake Mead, a key water source for California and six other states, is close to drying up. Water policy expert Felicia Marcus says dramatic action is needed on conservation, recycling and efficiency.
Oakland is clearing out what was once the city’s largest unhoused community.
Can California make the most of a rare health care win?
Low-income communities of color bear the pollution burden of California’s incentive-based dairy gas climate plan.
Lawsuits in Montana and Hawaii shine light on how climate chaos threatens their adult lives.
Effort to tighten rules on so-called forced pooling shows difficulty of reforms.
Proposed legislation would prohibit new fracking wells within 2,500 feet of an existing building or water well.