Opponents say a program that gives valuable credits for making fuels from crops and dairy waste props up fossil fuels companies and pollutes nearby communities.
Supporters say harvesting trees would thin out the state’s overgrown forests; critics say the wood pellets for heating produce more carbon than coal.
Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers’ pocketbooks. ProPublica and Capital & Main found that the money set aside to fix the problem falls woefully short of the impending cost.
The state has matched fruit and vegetable purchases at farmers markets for low-income residents for seven years. That may soon end.
Douglas Emmett Inc.’s surge in donations began after a city councilman opposed evictions.
Mike Balog has resisted eviction from his rent-controlled apartment for nearly ten years. The strain is wearing him down, but he has nowhere to go.
Organized labor fears a rising nonunion workforce could pull restaurant jobs down from the middle class.
Thousands of low-income patients cannot survive without MLK Hospital. The South L.A. hospital cannot survive on what it is paid by public insurance.
El Sereno residents used grants and their own money to open a store selling healthy foods at affordable prices.
“Polluting behemoth” Homer City Generating Station was the state’s largest coal-fired power plant.
Years behind bars for drug dealing led the influential proto-punk rocker to work for criminal justice reform.
Concerns over working conditions and patient care amidst hospital consolidation drove Louisiana’s largest union victory since 1993.
For many, premiums and deductibles now take three times more out of one’s budget than 20 years ago, UC Berkeley study shows.
Joanne Marie Erickson, battling post-polio syndrome, grapples with the looming threat of homelessness.
New and updated regulations, a royalties increase and enforcement funding await major debate.
From food to finding flights, volunteer groups send support to the airport nightly to help asylum seekers.
A pay system that does not guarantee raise agreements is a key reason.
The closer the state gets to reaching its groundbreaking clean energy goals, the harder it will be to achieve them.
Facing eviction after 30 years, Mike Balog says moving out would mean losing his community, part of his identity and having nowhere else to go.
Ten years of meetings and plans abruptly dumped; future plans uncertain.