Tag: California
Toxic air pollution has dropped over the last two decades in...
Better refined fuels, moves toward electric vehicles, and better public transportation can make the air pollution issue even better over the next decade.
New bill seeks to ban fracking in California
“Communities that are already struggling with health outcomes — we’re allowing them to be poisoned, and that's just not OK.”
‘Sadistic and depraved’: Trump rejects California request for federal disaster aid...
“That a sitting president—of any party—would deny their own citizens help during their time of greatest need, amid literal hellfire raining down on American cities, is beyond shameful.”
California becomes first US state to ban 24 toxic chemicals found...
“Every day, Californians are exposed to hazardous chemicals hiding in their cosmetics and personal care products.”
California approves massive electric vehicle charging program across Southern California
"This program marks the largest single program for any utility in the nation, a major win for clean air and healthier communities."
‘A human tragedy’: Wildfires reveal California’s reliance on incarcerated firefighters
Lay bare the state’s reliance on prison labor to control its ever-growing wildfire season with an exploitative system many have called slave labor.
Judge blocks California from putting cancer warning on Roundup
So far, juries in three trials have ordered the company to pay billions after concluding that the product did cause cancer.
Pipeline shutdown prevented 34 million tons of carbon pollution in California
“We need to end offshore drilling, not bring it back to life with another dirty oil pipeline.”
Former LA City Councilman agrees to plead guilty to obstructing corruption...
According to the indictment, Mitchell Englander was soliciting bribes from a local businessman in exchange for political favors.
Former California Congressman sentenced to prison for stealing campaign funds
“The FBI is committed to investigate public officials who abuse the public trust and use their office to commit illegal acts.”
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A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Iranian American scholars denounce US-Israeli attack, warn regime change efforts will backfire
Far from leading to a popular uprising against the government, as President Trump has encouraged, the U.S.-Israeli attacks have forced Iranians to worry about their immediate safety from the bombs.
Netanyahu says Iran assault ‘is not an endless war’ as US signals escalation and...
Officials reject “endless war” comparisons while warning of harsher strikes and acknowledging additional losses.
How high school students are organizing walkouts against ICE
Building to a statewide walkout.
Homer nails uncivilized, all-devouring MAGA Trump brutality – and strategic aikido to return fire
As Polyphemus falls to the aikido of seeming weaklings, Trump underestimates top experts, battling Democrats, anti-oligarchy citizens and committed activists promoting prosperity for the many, even (yikes!) sharing the wealth.