Environmental Justice

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.

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

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.

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.

Fresno has one of the most intense urban heat islands in the country, according to a new report by the nonprofit news organization Climate Central.

In the conservation effort to protect 30% of land and ocean by the year 2030, we need to include diverse communities in policy discussions.

AB 1087 charts a new course for climate resilience that makes investments in communities so they can be prepared for disasters.