Environmental Justice

It’s climate crunch time in California. Starting today and lasting through Thursday, generators and transmission-line operators should delay any scheduled maintenance to avoid possible power outages as Californians crank up their air conditioners to deal with an expected onslaught of 100-plus degree heat, the state’s electric grid operator said Friday. The California Independent System Operator’s […]

As heat waves become longer and hotter, vulnerable people need cooling immediately. Longer-term interventions must focus on adding shade and changing how buildings are built and land is used. California needs to coordinate these efforts.

Proposition 30, the "Clean Air Initiative" on the November ballot, is aimed at restoring California’s clean air. 

A bill negotiated by environmentalists, the plastics industry and lawmakers is keeping a California recycling measure off the ballot. The bill sailed through the Assembly on Wednesday night and the state Senate on Thursday morning, and the proponents withdrew the initiative just before the deadline.

A Bay Area train derailing from tracks overheated by an early-summer heat wave, sending at least one person to the hospital. Lightning strikes killing a woman and her two dogs in Southern California and injuring a man pushing a baby stroller in Kern County. A wildfire causing PG&E power outages so persistent that Stanford University […]

I have endorsed the California Plastic Pollution Reduction & Recycling Act, which will be on the ballot in November.

Weakening California’s landmark environmental law might increase profits for a few industries, but it could prove costly for communities.

California's environmental justice law is supposed to clean the air for 15 hot spot communities, home to almost 4 million people. But after more than 4 years and $1 billion, it’s still impossible to say whether it's worked.

New approaches to youth engagement and education are keys to bringing about environmental justice in communities of color.

A landmark California environmental justice law was supposed to clean the air in 15 key communities, but it's hard to say if it's worked.