Governing – COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted diverse and low-income communities more than others. The state intends to prioritize those communities first when it comes to vaccine distribution.
New York Times (tiered subscription) – California famously prides itself on environmental leadership — but what about when its lawmakers overlook problems in their own constituents’ backyards?
Nova – What makes PFAS chemicals extremely useful—and extremely hard to get rid of—are the bonds between carbon and fluorine atoms that are almost impossible to break.
Los Angeles Times / MSN.com – Just weeks after the Bobcat fire ravaged the San Gabriel Mountains, state and federal biologists are racing to salvage as many
The Los Angeles Times – Building housing in city centers, rather than carving new subdivisions into undisturbed landscapes. Planting nonmarketable cover crops on farms during fallow seasons.
Bloomberg – On wheat farms in the U.S. and Russia, it’s a drought that’s ruining harvests. The soybean fields of Brazil are bone dry too, touched by
NBC News – A person has tested positive for both the flu and the coronavirus in Solano County, California, the county health department said. Such co-infection is
Ventura County Star – Lead has been banned from gasoline and paint, asbestos is no longer allowed in most types of building materials and partially hydrogenated vegetable
The Sierra Sun – Earlier this the month, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife environmental scientist specializing in human-wildlife conflicts responded to worried reports about a
Politico – California officials on Tuesday dangled the possibility of allowing visitors to professional sporting events and theme parks, but the realities of infection rates and county