Environment
Why S.F. neighborhoods are up in arms over new environmental rankings that could cost them money
CalEnviroScreen 5.0 dropped key SF neighborhoods from top pollution rankings.
Environmental Justice
Commentary
A wave of emergencies is testing East LA’s resilience. The way its governed doesn’t help
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.
Commentary
California needs to preserve clean air and public oversight. Why Prop. 45 must be stopped
California voters must stand up to the corporations that want to dismantle the state's environmental laws, argues an environmental justice advocate.
Commentary
Big box tinderboxes: Warehouses are exposing more Californians to costly, toxic disasters
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.
Commentary
California’s best chance for enough water in the future is to bolster local supplies today
The state can’t rely on snowmelt or transporting water long distances for future needs because climate change has altered precipitation.
Commentary
Small California communities deserve protection from big polluting manufacturers
Lawmakers passed exemptions for advanced manufacturing in CEQA, the state’s main environmental law. Now they should plug some of those holes.
Commentary
California should help neighborhoods in need ‘decarbonize,’ leave natural gas
Regulators can approve up to 30 neighborhood decarbonization zones. Will poorer neighborhoods get first shot at climate saving energy options?
Commentary
Protecting California’s public lands from oil and gas drilling is defending public health
Federal plans for oil drilling along a million acres in California would change healthful, wild spaces into sources of pollution and illness.
Commentary
Kern County oil drilling law reveals who and what California lawmakers will sacrifice
A hurried law this year that expands oil drilling demonstrated how industry dollars and misleading information can convince California lawmakers to reverse climate progress.
Commentary
Why fast-tracking oil drilling in California won’t lower prices at the pump
Lawmakers just enabled fast-tracking of new oil drilling permits in Kern County. Gas prices are mainly moved by other economic forces.