Air Resources Board

Dairy cows are shown in the pasture. | Photo credit: PublicDomainFiles.com

Commentary

California must make use of ‘renewable’ natural gas. Here’s how

Renewable natural gas is produced from the largest waste streams in society today—landfills, diverted food waste, wastewater plants and livestock operations. These waste sources emit methane—a highly potent greenhouse gas—into the atmosphere. RNG projects prevent this from happening, by capturing the methane and converting it into an ultra-low-carbon renewable fuel or electricity.

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Guest Commentary

• March 4, 2019

Agriculture in the Imperial Valley—an area known for high asthma rates and high level of air pollution. )The geothermal plant in the background releases steam and is not a culprit.) Photo by Olivier Hertel/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images)

Health

What keeps families in one of the most polluted places in California?

California's Imperial County is emblematic of life for millions of people around the state who live under an umbrella of bad air quality or who have contaminated soil or lack access to clean water. The majority of these environmental hot spots are concentrated in low-income communities of color.

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Elizabeth Aguilera

• January 23, 2019

Climate Change

Big polluters get help from the state, renewing doubts about California’s climate goals

The state may not be able to cut enough greenhouse gases by 2030, says Mary Nichols, who chairs California's Air Resources Board.

By

Julie Cart

• December 14, 2018

Newsletters

School dashboards, Dieselgate power struggles, animal rights

California's School Dashboard reports, Dieselgate funds start a fight, a GOP candidate tweets and lawmakers and ferret lovers want animal rights.

By

Dan Morain

• December 7, 2018

Ripening almonds in an orchard in the Central Valley of California get flooded by irrigation water.

Newsletters

Newsom gets climate advice, Atkins offers ‘Trump insurance’

Gavin Newsom gets expert environmental advice, the feds estimate California wildfires' carbon footprint, Toni Atkins introduces some 'Trump insurance, wrecking levees to avert floods, a possible Newsom advisor, and a California air filter trend.

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Dan Morain

• December 5, 2018

San Francisco Chronicle headlines from murders of George Moscone and Harvey Milk by Dan White,

Newsletters

California moves forward, and looks back

Dems cheer and fume, California cars block climate change goals, Giants owner wasn't the only Hyde-Smith donor, and incoming lawsuits on boardroom diversity.

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Dan Morain

• November 27, 2018

Newsletters

CA wildfires assault schools, lungs, utilities, air

California wildfires close schools, clog lungs, threaten utility, pollute the air. Plus, state audit for high speed rail, and canvassing for Central Valley Democrats.

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Dan Morain

• November 16, 2018

Newsletters

Senate goes digital, GOP for Poizner, high-speed rail

The Senate goes digital, Steve Poizner's GOP donors, high speed rail in Fresno, recycled carpet, congenital syphilis in California, taxes and auto rules.

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Dan Morain

• October 17, 2018

Commentary

My turn: CA’s transportation is broken. The next governor can fix it

California has the potential to create radically different—and vastly better—transportation that will be less expensive for travelers, less costly to taxpayers, less polluting, and less energy- and land-intensive while providing far greater mobility. The next governor will be key to that future.

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Guest Commentary

• September 30, 2018

Loren Poncia of Marin County is one of dozens of California carbon farmers—participants in a promising state effort to suck climate-threatening carbon out of the air. Photo by Alastair Bland for CALmatters

Environment

Meet the newest recruits in California’s war on climate change: carbon farmers

Eighty California farmers are engaged in a state-funded effort to boost carbon concentrations in the soil—a promising way to combat climate change.

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Alastair Bland

• September 26, 2018