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Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

Environment

Wrangling over renewables: Counties push back on Newsom administration usurping local control

August 6, 2022

The state can expedite approval of renewable energy projects but rural counties say they already do their part with solar and wind farms. “We’re in the crosshairs, but we don’t think we are the right target here,” one rural advocate says.

Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

Environment

Can Californians afford electric cars? Wait lists for rebates are long and some programs have shut down

August 2, 2022

State funding is insufficient so lower-income residents have trouble getting their subsidies. The problems jeopardize California’s climate and air pollution goals as electric car prices keep rising.

Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

How bad is California’s housing crisis for renters?

July 27, 2022

Over the past two years, federal, state and local governments have passed several laws and invested billions of dollars to stave off an eviction tsunami. How have tenants and landlords fared through it all?

Gosia Wozniack / AP Photo

Environment

California poised to restrict bee-killing pesticides

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.

Rich Pedroncelli / AP Photo

Food and Sustainability

Study says California employers fail to keep food, farm workers safe from COVID

July 10, 2022

A new report uses Cal/OSHA data to show how California food production employers failed to keep workers safe from COVID-19.

Rahul Lal / CalMatters

State Government

California cuts cannabis taxes to heal ailing industry

July 10, 2022

Gov. Newsom and the Legislature cut a California cannabis tax, but not everyone is convinced it’s enough to stabilize the legal market. Social equity operators say the changes don’t do nearly enough to help them.

Photo by Chris Carlson, AP Photo

California may chop late fees that add hundreds of dollars to traffic tickets

May 9, 2022

California lawmakers want to remove a fee that can transform a minor ticket into hundreds of dollars of debt for low-income residents.

Photo by Shae Ashamalla for CalMatters

Health Care

‘If I get something from you I could die’: Some immunocompromised Cal State students feel left behind as COVID safeguards loosen

May 8, 2022

With some campuses dropping mask mandates, immunocompromised students and staff weigh the risks of showing up.

Photo by Lauren Justice for CalMatters

State lawmakers consider putting homeless courts where the unhoused live

May 8, 2022

A Southern California beach city took its homeless court outside, near food donation centers, and attendance soared.

Courtesy of the California High-Speed Rail Authority

Governor, legislators won’t budge in high-speed rail dispute

May 7, 2022

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers have different opinions on what the next steps for the state's high-speed rail project should be.

 
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