July 3, 2020 | Ezra David Romero
Sacramento doesn’t have a scarcity of environmental groups. But what is lacking is an advocacy group that adequately listens to Black people when it comes to environmental laws and policies that impact their lives. A new group aims to change that.
June 24, 2020 | Bert Johnson
Nevada’s Governor wants to follow California’s lead on stronger fuel efficiency standards and require automakers to offer more electric vehicles for sale in Nevada.
June 18, 2020 | Ezra David Romero
California may need to take a lesson from what’s happening with wildfires in Arizona where more than 220,000 acres have burned. California’s peak dry season is usually late in the summer and fall, but fires have already begun at lower elevations.
May 28, 2020
Insight checks in on reforestation efforts in California as the state forays deeper into fire season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
May 26, 2020 | Kris Vera-Phillips
A heat wave with record-breaking temperatures is expected for the rest of the week in Northern California.
May 26, 2020 | Randol White
For decades, communities of color have had fewer resources to develop green space, leading to islands of heat that can be up to 20 degrees hotter than other nearby neighborhoods.
May 15, 2020 | Kris Vera-Phillips
Residents from Salt Lake City to the Central Valley in California say they felt a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that hit western Nevada early Friday morning.
May 14, 2020 | Ezra David Romero
The proposed budget update has cuts and reductions across environmental sectors including climate resilience programs to state parks. The largest proposed environmental investment is allotted to Cal Fire.
May 7, 2020 | Ezra David Romero
Californians are breathing cleaner air now due to pandemic travel restrictions, but it could go away as fast as it cleared up. Although some scientists say it doesn’t have to if we double our climate goals and keep cars off roads.
May 1, 2020 | Ezra David Romero
The California solar industry has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing hundreds of businesses to shed or furlough an estimated 15,000 clean energy jobs.
Environment NEWSJuly 3, 2020
President Trump's Friday visit to Mt. Rushmore included the return of big fireworks displays. They were banned since 2009 because of wildfire and pollution risks.
July 3, 2020
NPR sits down with Germany's prominent youth climate activist to discuss lessons from the coronavirus and next steps for the movement.
July 1, 2020
Environmental dangers, including wildfires and groundwater poisoning, ended the Rushmore pyrotechnics a decade ago. Now they're back, defying a pandemic and protests.
June 29, 2020
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison tells All Things Considered he thinks Minnesota can prove its case alleging that Exxon Mobil and others knew about the damage of climate change decades ago.
June 26, 2020
In an internal memo this week, the National Marine Fisheries Service bars references to the coronavirus pandemic without preapproval. It suggests alternatives such as "in these extraordinary times."
