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California farmers already practice sustainable agriculture
Pest control advisers put the latest science to work every day on California farms to ensure the best, safest crop protection method is being used.
Agriculture
California Divide
How California farms can survive the post-pandemic world
Lee este artículo en español. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, few industries have been quite as essential to the nation as agriculture. From pickers crouching for nine hours a day to scoop up strawberries to CEOs making handshake deals to keep their companies afloat, hundreds of thousands of workers are feeding America. But, in many ways, the […]
California Divide
‘The perfect storm of vulnerability’: Protection in the fields doesn’t follow farmworkers home
When Jesus Francisco Meza Uriarte and Dian Alejandro Bienazul Atondo step into the van that will take them to a spinach field in Salinas each morning, it stinks of bleach. The van’s been sanitized between rides to kill any lingering bits of the COVID-19 virus. They ride to work, sitting at least six feet apart, […]
Environment
California analysts urge lawmakers: reject Gov. Newsom’s $1 billion climate loan proposal
The Legislative Analyst's Office warns California may not be able to spot the right projects to fund with a proposed green loan program.
WhatMatters
Why parents face a debt + What’s driving one of the year’s most costly races + Whither asparagus
Kids' arrests leave parents in debt. Trump makes play for Nevada on nuclear waste. Farm worker OT bill looms large in Senate race.
Environment
Exclusive: California climate budget to include $1 billion green loan fund
The four-year proposal would seed innovation in recycling, transit, agriculture and other sectors that could help the state address climate change.
California Divide
California families are hungry while a third of crops rot in fields
Maximina Molina Sanchez is worried about going hungry this winter. She depends on a food bank in Huron to feed her husband and two kids. But with most agricultural workers out of jobs during the winter, demand is bound to increase, so she worries there won’t be enough food to feed everyone who needs it. […]
Environment
On bill to blunt Trump’s environment aims, it’s farms or endangered species — and Newsom must choose
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has been part of negotiations over air, water and endangered-species protections. The governor decries Trump's environmental rollbacks but also seeks harmony with farmers opposing the bill.
Commentary
Californians must pitch in to make drinking water safe for everyone
Groundwater basins drawn down by years of drought contain dangerously high levels of nitrates, arsenic and other contaminants. One million Californians don't have safe drinking water and nearly 2 million more are not served by a regulated public water system and may not know if their water is contaminated. The Legislature must step in.
Newsletters
A shooting, wine, taxes, weed and the homeschool bill that failed
State continues to grapple with gun violence, California could lose in 2020 U.S. Census count, tax breaks for corporations may be costing some cities