Environmental Justice

The Lineage Logistics fire was the fifth major crisis to hit East Los Angeles in six consecutive years. The community and its local businesses are still seeking relief.

California voters must stand up to the corporations that want to dismantle the state's environmental laws, argues an environmental justice advocate.

The blaze at a massive cold-storage warehouse in Boyle Heights is simply the latest in a string of massive industrial facility fires in California.

The state can’t rely on snowmelt or transporting water long distances for future needs because climate change has altered precipitation.

Lawmakers passed exemptions for advanced manufacturing in CEQA, the state’s main environmental law. Now they should plug some of those holes.

Regulators can approve up to 30 neighborhood decarbonization zones. Will poorer neighborhoods get first shot at climate saving energy options?

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

A hurried law this year that expands oil drilling demonstrated how industry dollars and misleading information can convince California lawmakers to reverse climate progress.

Lawmakers just enabled fast-tracking of new oil drilling permits in Kern County. Gas prices are mainly moved by other economic forces.

As climate change makes for more 100-degree days, California legislators are considering a bill to set a maximum indoor temperature standard for homes.