Items Tagged with 'protecting socially disadvantaged communities from environmental impacts'

California lawmakers continue to side with environmental advocates in a push to exclude dairy methane from the production of hydrogen fuel.

Activists donning backpack air monitors have garnered scorn from farmers claiming they trespassed after pesticide applications. With UC Davis public health researchers, the advocates have published the results.

Lawmakers have expedited a bill to set new building restrictions on warehouses with the aim of protecting sensitive areas from diesel truck pollution. But rural governments and ag-friendly lawmakers worry about the unintended consequences.

The Legislature has passed a measure to exempt wetlands and disadvantaged communities from groundwater regulations.

CARB has conducted yet another in a series of academic analyses verifying the climate benefits of dairy digesters and the minimal impacts to neighboring communities.

Agricultural lobbyists are expressing frustration over an apparent lack of understanding among leaders at the California Air Resources Board over industry emissions in the San Joaquin Valley.

The Air Resources Board on Thursday adopted a regulation to phase out the sale and use of large fossil fuel-powered forklifts in California by 2038.

A progressive Bay Area lawmaker is proposing legislation claiming to protect the health and lives of schoolchildren in California’s agricultural communities, frustrating lawmakers in those communities.

Political pressure from the Newsom administration to overhaul the pesticide regulatory system has led to an erosion of trust that is shaking the foundation of the partnership between county and state governments.

The document is light on details but would approve several of Newsom’s proposals related to ag, including a dramatic increase and more EJ cost shifts to the pesticide sales tax.