agriculture

Despite the demand for giant kelp, an environmentally friendly product, California prohibits new seaweed cultivation projects.

Water is a public resource that’s vital to ecosystem and community health, and Big Ag should be regulated to ensure its usage is efficient.

We cannot accommodate serious discussion on the demand side of water questions without working on the supply side.

The bill would help promote drought resiliency, adjust to climate change and keep California’s food supply safe.

Water banking and trading are essential tools for managing the state’s groundwater, and we urgently need to make them work better.

Unfortunately, California’s approach to setting mandates to cut greenhouse gas emissions has left agriculture to become collateral damage.

AB 616 will go a long way toward ensuring that farmworkers can decide, by free and fair elections, whether they wish to join a union.

State and local governments must change housing law and zoning rules to move toward permanently housing unsheltered Californians.

The very regulations that were intended to slow or prevent environmental degradation are now hindering work to expand ecosystem restoration. Successful smarter permitting efforts typically achieve better outcomes in restoring our water, lands, shores, fisheries and wildlife.

En resumen La sequía extrema ahora afecta al 85% de California, por lo que el gobernador está buscando una acción voluntaria. Newsom expandió la emergencia por sequía a nueve condados más, principalmente a lo largo de la Costa Central y en el Área de la Bahía. Read this article in English.    A medida que la sequía extrema […]