Guest Commentary

CARE Court can produce some positive results, but many people may not succeed for reasons unrelated to their ability to survive safely.

Federal plans for oil drilling along a million acres in California would change healthful, wild spaces into sources of pollution and illness.

Biomass energy is not about cutting healthy forests or replacing solar and wind. California faces a dangerous accumulation of forest fuels with limited safe disposal options.

First-generation students lack the extra help with exams and college applications that rich kids' families can buy. A new program and tax could change that.

Ending BioMAT in 2025 would undermine investments in bioenergy and leave communities without safe biomass disposal options.

PACE lets seniors stay out of nursing homes and still receive a variety of health and home services. Too few people know about it.

CalPERS won't say what climate companies it invests in. The pension also holds positions in fossil fuel, airlines, plastics manufacturing and technology.

As oil and gas companies pivot to plastic, certain California neighborhoods become unhealthy sacrifice zones again.

Utilities customers help pay for biomass because electric utilities buy its products to produce electricity, paying four times more. Is it worth it?

Caltrans construction forces families from homes and neighborhoods, though its efforts to widen freeways don’t seem to reduce traffic jams.