In the Media

April 05, 2024

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs again

Associated Press

https://apnews.com/article/carbon-dioxide-methane-global-warming-climate-change-94424de6b22f1f734b1afd6bce8489b2?fbclid=IwAR202GMuBfPn47yd2UKuB3CiIXv-PXHc6R3GKtq9TwLonTsbqBk8MHpSKEo_aem_ARI1X3Q88RlDB62RWIcwWTVgB50s4Py5NNoeV3NbldXLxdK1h_Fj9vnUDsrSnbNoKuKgM1luE5ByELvPk36ghDps

April 04, 2024

How big-box stores and schools can help marginalized communities go solar

Grist

https://grist.org/energy/commercial-roof-space-is-an-untapped-trove-of-clean-energy-for-low-income-communities/

April 03, 2024

California’s Former Water Czar on the State’s Coming “Water Nightmare”

KQED

https://www.kqed.org/news/11981787/californias-former-water-czar-on-the-states-coming-water-nightmare

April 01, 2024

Why is there so much lead in American food?

Vox

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24115827/lead-poisoning-symptoms-exposure-children-cinnamon-paint-battery-pollution-global

April 01, 2024

California storms deliver above-average snowpack, replenish reservoirs

Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-04-01/california-snow-water-supplies

March 31, 2024

Can We Engineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?

The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/climate/climate-change-carbon-capture-ccs.html

March 28, 2024

Potential Changes to Alternate-Fuel Standards Could Hike Gas Prices in California. Critics See a ‘Regressive Tax’ on Low-Income Communities

Inside Climate News

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28032024/california-gas-prices-hike-impact-low-income-communities/

March 27, 2024

Warming climate threatens rodent population that feeds Arctic foxes

CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/warming-climate-threatens-rodent-population-arctic-foxes/

March 20, 2024

In Texas, as in California, big fires lead to big lawsuits

Grist

https://grist.org/extreme-weather/texas-smokehouse-creek-fire-lawsuits-xcel/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=weekly

March 19, 2024

Seven countries met the WHO's air quality guidelines -- and the U.S. and Canada aren't among them

NBC

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/seven-countries-met-air-quality-guidlines-not-us-rcna143940

March 18, 2024

California is finally digitizing its 100-year-old paper water rights. Why that's a big deal

The Sacramento Bee

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article285859941.html

March 18, 2024

California policy protecting major rivers upheld in long-awaited court decision

San Francisco Chronicle

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/delta-river-water-court-19212221.php

March 13, 2024

US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds

The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2024/03/13/methane-natural-gas-leak-climate-change/f09962c6-e152-11ee-95aa-7384336086f3_story.html

March 12, 2024

Study details how low humidity could be a boon for viruses

Stanford News Service

https://news.stanford.edu/2024/03/12/low-humidity-boon-viruses/

March 12, 2024

Old power lines plus climate change mean a growing risk of utilities starting fires

NPR - KQED

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/12/1237063598/texas-fire-xcel-energy-climate-change-utility-power-lines

March 11, 2024

Probe finds that the largest wildfire in Texas history was 'ignited by power lines'

NPR

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/11/1237687123/probe-finds-that-the-largest-wildfire-in-texas-history-was-ignited-by-power-line#:~:text=Investigators%20now%20say%20the%20largest,nationwide%20from%20aging%20utility%20infrastructure.