环境

时事通讯

A minimum wage quirk, trash, tenants’ rights, and bills that died (for now)

Higher minimum wages impact nonprofits that employ developmentally disabled workers. State resets trash goals. Tenants rights bills fizzle.

经过 Dan Morain • 5 月 31, 2019

国会大厦

California’s war on plastic pollution targets tiny hotel toiletries

A California bill would force hotels to rid rooms of single-use, sample-sized plastic bottles of free shampoo, conditioner, lotion and other toiletries.

经过 伊丽莎白·卡斯蒂略 • 4 月 22, 2019

环境

Activists want California to ban fracking. What does Gov. Newsom want?

Dozens of California counties and cities ban fracking, even where there is no oil drilling. About 20% of California oil comes from fracked wells.

经过 朱莉·卡特 • 4 月 11, 2019

时事通讯

Police shootings, USC scandal, ‘Trump insurance’ and Newsom returns

Hearing on police shootings turns emotional, USC sex-abuse scandal comes to Capitol, legislators propose 'Trump insurance' bills

经过 Dan Morain • 4 月 10, 2019

评论

Yes, we need clean water. But it must remain tax-free

Taxing water, food and other essential needs would limit their affordability and betray our collective resolve that no one should be denied the essentials for health, sanitation and freedom from hunger and thirst.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 4 月 9, 2019

时事通讯

Defending Obamacare, protecting birds, treating psychiatric emergencies

State takes on Trump administration over Obamacare, migratory birds, hospital respond to spike in mental emergencies, homeless college students need help

经过 Dan Morain • 3 月 26, 2019

评论

Organic food is a rich bounty. Policymakers can help it grow

California agriculture is presented with an opportunity it has only begun to tap. Despite rapid growth in organic food production, only 4 percent of all agricultural land in the state is being farmed organically. We need policies that use organic agriculture as a practical, evidence-based approach to solving the complex challenges facing California.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 2 月 26, 2019

加州野火

My turn: Sell PG&E for parts and build community energy instead

By Catherine Brinkley Catherine Brinkley is an assistant professor of human ecology at University of California, Davis, who has written extensively on community energy infrastructures, ckbrinkley@ucdavis.edu. She wrote this commentary for CALmatters. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is filing for bankruptcy. Again. When PG&E filed in 2001, it was the third largest bankruptcy filing in […]

经过 嘉宾评论 • 1 月 16, 2019

环境

What happens if PG&E goes bankrupt?

What could happen if PG&E, which provides natural gas and electricity to 16 million people in northern and central California, goes bankrupt in the aftermath of the deadliest blaze in state history.

经过 Judy Lin • 11 月 29, 2018

选举

How Gov-Elect Newsom aims to take on California’s 7 biggest issues

Gavin Newsom first ran for governor in 2010, an effort he abandoned and then relaunched in 2015 with the long, long campaign that crescendoed tonight. Now that California voters have given the 51-year-old Democrat the job he has sought for eight years, he is about to discover that winning was the easy part. Governing is […]

经过 CalMatters Staff • 11 月 7, 2018