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Sharon UdasinThe Jewish Week |
Residents of households with gas or propane stoves are regularly inhaling pollutants that are both exacerbating childhood asthma rates and causing...
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed into law on Wednesday a bill that will result in sweeping bans of "forever chemicals" across a wide range of...
This story is part of a series, “Fighting ‘Forever Chemicals’: Women face pervasive PFAS risks.” While “forever chemicals” have been...
A proposal from California's Catalina Island to shoot down invasive mule deer via helicopter has met with a scathing response from Los Angeles County...
California's population is celebrating its first net increase since 2020 — with a net gain of 67,000 residents last year, state authorities...
While climate change is in general increasing the ferocity and frequency of severe weather events, the same effects may not apply to the massive snow...
California officials on Thursday celebrated a milestone in their quest to achieve a 100-percent clean grid by 2045: The installation of more than...
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More than two-thirds of electricity distribution circuits in the Golden State will require capacity upgrades by 2045, in order to meet electric...
This story is part of a series, “Fighting ‘Forever Chemicals’: Women face pervasive PFAS risks.” Cancer-linked “forever chemicals” got...
More than three decades after Erin Brockovich recognized that hexavalent chromium was making residents of Hinkley, Calif., sick, state water...
State water regulators voted unanimously Tuesday to place an agricultural hub in central California under "probation" due to excessive groundwater...
Switching to greener wastewater treatment approaches could slash carbon emissions and save the country $15.6 billion, a new study has found....
This story is part of a series, “Fighting ‘Forever Chemicals’: Women face pervasive PFAS risks.” Loreen Hackett suffered two bouts of cancer...
People who frequently consume seafood may face a heightened risk of exposure to toxic "forever chemicals," a new study has found. Of all species...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday he was requesting a federal fishery disaster declaration, after regional supervisors recommended a...
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Trump administration officials barred experts from warning legislators that they were about to write a major environmental loophole into law,...
This story is part of a series, “Fighting ‘Forever Chemicals’: Women face pervasive PFAS risks.” For decades, physicians and scientists have...
The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) across the Bay Area has brought a small but steady decrease in carbon dioxide emissions to the region, a new...
Tourism to Yellowstone National Park produces 1.03 megatons — more than 1.03 billion kilograms, or 2.3 billion pounds — of carbon dioxide...
California, a state known for advancing some of the strictest climate policies in the country, is the nation's top emitter of a little-known — but...
A federal district court judge has granted final approval to a multi-billion-dollar settlement between public water suppliers affected by “forever...
Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability The Big Story Record growth in renewables, with a long way...
Hydropower generation in the U.S. West plunged to a 22-year low last year — an 11 percent drop from the year before, according to a new federal data...
Climate change-induced warming may be jeopardizing the survival of honey bee colonies in the Pacific Northwest, a new study has found. Contributing to...
Congress tripled the funds it will be devoting this year to cleaning up a cross-border sewage crisis, in a small sliver of the $1.2 trillion spending...
Fire suppression activities are causing future blazes to burn at higher severity and under more hostile conditions — worsening the impacts of...
Nearly half of American prisons are located downstream from water sources that are likely contaminated with cancer-linked "forever chemicals," a new...
Texas and New Mexico faced off with the U.S. government in the nation's highest court on Wednesday in the latest chapter of a decade-long dispute over...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced on Tuesday that top automaker Stellantis has agreed to abide by the Golden State's strict emissions rules,...
A nearly five-year "unusual mortality event" involving the deaths of hundreds of gray whales along the West Coast is officially over, federal...
California would need to triple the rate of emissions cuts that the state has undertaken since 2010 in order to meet its climate goals for 2030, a new...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) published a proposal on Thursday to prioritize the conservation of greater sage-grouse on public lands — aiming...
Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability The Big Story Rocky Mountain residents brace for massive...
The impacts of climate change in central California's agriculture hub are causing such drastic increases in irrigation demands that annual water use...
Monday marked a key cutoff time by which Colorado River states had been tasked with proposing a consensus-based plant for long-term water conservation...
Recent bouts of heavy mountain snowfall in parts of the U.S. West have helped quell a "snow drought" that was threatening to further desiccate an...
The Colorado River’s Lower Basin states published a proposal Wednesday for the watershed's long-term operations, just hours after their Upper Basin...
The Colorado River’s “Upper Basin” contingent sent the federal government a proposal outlining its vision for the watershed’s long-term...
The Biden administration announced its support on Tuesday for a consensus-based, short-term proposal that will promote significant water conservation...
After a dry start to the West Coast winter, California snowpack levels showed considerable improvement Thursday, just as a multi-foot blizzard was...
Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability The Big Story Sierra Nevada braces for multi-foot blizzard...
Southern California Edison, the Golden State's second largest utility, has agreed to pay the U.S. government $80 million to resolve claims about a...
China will need to expand its current solar and wind energy capacity by eight- to tenfold to fulfill its 2060 carbon neutrality goals, a University of...
Federal environment officials have ordered a Los Angeles County landfill to take urgent action to protect public health, citing noxious odors and...
The California Department of Water Resources on Wednesday announced an increase in its projected statewide water allocations for 2024 — following a...
Communities of color in the Denver metropolitan area are exposed to higher levels of air pollution than non-Hispanic white residents, a new study has...
The State of California and the Kingdom of Sweden renewed a longstanding climate partnership on Tuesday, reemphasizing and broadening their...
California regulators have released official plans for phasing out fracking in the Golden State — nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D)...