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Category: Environment

Electric cars at Niello BMW dealership in Sacramento on September 12, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
Posted inEnvironment

Audit slams state air board for ‘overstating’ greenhouse gas cuts

Avatar by Rachel Becker February 23, 2021

The air board’s lack of accounting threatens to derail the state’s climate change goals, the audit says. “California is in need of more reliable tools,” state auditor Elaine Howle wrote.

Laura Garcia stands outside her family home in the rural Fresno County community of Raisin City on Feb. 12, 2021. Garcia, a mother of 5 with one on the way, is concerned about how the air quality due to nearby burns is affecting her kids. The orchard in the background replaced a vineyard which was burned away. Photo by Craig Kohlruss, The Fresno Bee
Posted inEnvironment

Up in smoke: Burns in San Joaquin Valley vineyards, orchards may finally end

Avatar by Rachel Becker February 22, 2021
The Valero Wilmington Refinery in Long Beach on Jan. 28, 2021. Photo by Shae Hammond for CalMatters
Posted inEnvironment

California to review carbon trading program as part of climate roadmap

Avatar by Rachel Becker February 16, 2021
A brown pelican — a species that recovered from near-extinction after being protected by the Endangered Species Act — flies above Malibu Lagoon on Jan. 12, 21. Photo by Shae Hammond for CalMatters
Posted inExplainers

What Biden’s presidency means for California’s environment

AvatarAvatar by Julie Cart and Rachel Becker January 25, 2021
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Posted inEconomy

California Policy & Politics: A Primer

CalMatters staff by CalMatters staff January 14, 2021
An explanation of nine new California laws taking effect in 2021. Illustration by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters; iStock
Posted inVideo

Nine new California laws explained — each in 1 minute

CalMatters staff by CalMatters staff December 31, 2020
Mary Nichols, who has been chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board since 2007, poses for a portrait outside her home in Los Angeles on Dec. 15, 2020. Photo by Kendrick Brinson for CalMatters
Posted inEnvironment

Legacy of a clean-air czar: Clearer skies, bold alliances and bitter controversy

Avatar by Rachel Becker December 23, 2020
The Anderson’s address spray painted on the end of a log in a timber deck of Douglas Firs cut down by PG&E following the CZU Lightening Complex Fires in August of this year. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inCalifornia Wildfires

Whack and stack: PG&E’s toppling of trees creates new hazards

Avatar by Julie Cart December 18, 2020
Lucy Smallreed at her home in Inverness on Dec. 6, 2020. Smallreed’s neighborhood, which borders on the Tomales Bay State Park, is a heavily wooded area. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inCalifornia Wildfires

Can ‘fire hardening’ solve California’s home insurance crisis?

James Bikales by James Bikales December 7, 2020
A man walks along a pathway closed due to levee construction in Foster City on Dec. 2, 2020. In 2018, Foster City passed a bond measure to fund levee repair in order to maintain FEMA accreditation and protect from future flooding and sea level rise. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inEnvironment

Rising seas: California’s affordable housing faces worse floods

Avatar by Julie Cart December 3, 2020

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