July 25, 2022 | Rich Ibarra
Renting a car would cost $4 an hour or $35 for the day. The program is paid for by a California Air Resources Board grant and could start later this year.
July 20, 2022
California is acting later than many states in regulating neonicotinoids, but its rules would be among the nation’s most extensive. They would change how growers kill pests on nuts, citrus and other fruit crops.
July 14, 2022 | Manola Secaira
While officials say that the giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park will likely survive this fire, experts warn more must be done to protect these trees’ future.
July 10, 2022
Lake Tahoe’s clarity has been dipping over the years from a historic level of 97 feet to 63 feet in 2021.
June 30, 2022
A bill negotiated by environmentalists, the plastics industry and lawmakers is keeping a California recycling measure off the ballot.
June 30, 2022 | Manola Secaira
A climate law expert explains what the Supreme Court ruling means for the EPA’s future plans to cut carbon emissions.
June 29, 2022 | Manola Secaira
A law aimed at decreasing food waste and greenhouse gas emissions in California is coming into play in Sacramento County.
June 22, 2022
It’s no quick fix. The scaled-down tunnel — which would bypass the Delta and funnel more water south — still has to clear a gauntlet of reviews, would cost at least $16 billion and could take 20 years.
June 21, 2022 | Manola Secaira
There are about 35,000 idle oil wells in California. State leaders and activists are in the midst of deciding their future.
June 21, 2022 | Scott Rodd
A months-long investigation from The California Newsroom examined Cal Fire’s efforts to prevent catastrophic wildfires, ahead of what could be another devastating fire season.
Environment NEWSAugust 14, 2022
About 200 young people used Florida law to successfully petition the state to adopt renewable energy faster. One of them, Levi Draheim, is a veteran at suing the government to act on climate change.
August 12, 2022
The average low temperature for the lower 48 states in July was 63.6 F. It's not only the hottest nightly average for July, but for any month in 128 years of record keeping, a NOAA climatologist said.
August 12, 2022
There's a long history of massive inland flooding in California. New research finds that climate change has already doubled the odds it happens again.
August 12, 2022
An unprecedented drought is afflicting nearly half of the European continent, damaging farm economies, forcing water restrictions and causing wildfires and threatening aquatic species.
August 11, 2022
Some of the Act's $369 billion in energy and climate spending aims to make it easier and cheaper for Americans to live more sustainably.
