The sunsetting of a $7,500 Biden-era electric vehicle incentive drove a month of record sales this September, but as buyers and sellers prepare for an uncertain economic landscape, thousands of dollars in rebates and incentives still remain. The tax incentive, which expired at midnight on Sept. 30, allowed buyers to receive up to $7,500 towards […]
On May 2, despite months of advocacy from residents and local and state representatives, Contra Costa County received word that the EPA had formally terminated a $19 million Community Change Grant that was awarded to North Richmond and the neighboring City of Richmond in January.
North Richmond hit hard by federal grant cancellation Read More »
Many understand the health and climate risks of meat consumption. So why aren’t reduced-meat diets the norm?
Beyond Meatless Mondays: What Climate-Conscious Eating Needs to Take Off Read More »
In California’s San Joaquin Valley, industrial dairies are releasing harmful pollutants with little oversight. Lacking air monitors and enforcement, nearby farmworker families face serious health risks. Will regulators look the other way?
What’s in the Air? Pixley Residents Know, but the State Doesn’t Want to See Read More »
As climate change and resource scarcity force increasing human-wildlife contact, debate over natural predator management heats up in California.
Trading coyotes for cattle: Californians struggle to coexist with native predators Read More »
Trump wants to expand logging on National Forest lands, which may be at odds with the simultaneous vision for wildfire resilience depending on how the U.S. Forest Service meets new timber targets.
The USFS was ordered to chop. Will they do it sustainably? Read More »
Friction between regulatory policy and California aquaculture leaves the future of Point Reyes oyster farmers in doubt.
Throwing the Oysters Out with the Bathwater Read More »
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology hosts local community to learn more about physics in biennial science festival.
Who said science isn’t for the weekend? Read More »
As policy shifts and energy demands rise, climate leaders at the Watershed Summit warn resilience may matter more than ambition.
From targets to tradeoffs: Companies face climate strategy crossroads Read More »
Stanford’s Adam Boies asks how carbon might be sequestered in the built environment, broadening the scope, scale, and audience of engineering puzzles.
Carbon Magic in the Basement Read More »
On Earth Day, Jennifer Channin looked out her kitchen window while eating breakfast to see the morning light beam down on her home solar grid, the only mark on an otherwise untouched blanket of green in her lawn. Most would agree that Channin is doing her part for the planet. And she is, but not
Climate Week seminar serves food for thought Read More »
Researchers discover surprising evidence of human influence on fish ecosystems centuries before historical records suggest.
Past parasites of the Pyrenees Read More »
