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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized stricter emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles — including semi trucks, delivery trucks and buses — as part of its larger Clean Trucks Plan.
Here are six ways that Californians will be affected by the new climate change blueprint, which aims for the state to cut greenhouse gases and oil use and become carbon neutral by 2045.
A committee of the L.A. City Council just paved the way for LADWP to explore transitioning from burning natural gas to burning green hydrogen at the Scattergood steam plant in Playa del Rey, near Dockweiler State Beach.
A new study shows how L.A. County may be vastly underestimating its flood risk — and how a "hundred-year flood" would disproportionately affect the county's Black communities.
Located in Southeast Los Angeles County, the Gateway Cities area — which is largely comprised of urban low-income communities of color, specifically Black and Latinx residents — is particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of climate change, which are expected to grow more severe in the coming years.
As legislation strives to make electric-powered vehicles like Teslas more accessible, the need for more electric car charging stations is becoming evident. Here's how the lack of chargers disproportionately affects low-income and BIPOC communities.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved an ordinance banning new oil wells and production facilities in unincorporated areas, while ordering existing operations to be phased out over the next 20 years.
Extreme weather leaves millions of Americans with power bills they can't afford — and those who are behind on their electricity bills could have their utility services cut, even as heatwaves become the norm.
California's High-Speed Rail Authority has proposed to work with freight railroad BNSF Railway to build a new intermodal facility at the site of the old CalPortland Cement Plant in Colton — where a large portion of freight would be rerouted, despite environmental, noise, traffic and land use concerns that have been raised by the community.
The California state legislature passed a slate of bills that tighten up its climate plans, including those addressing oil drilling, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon offsets and other climate goals.
Communities in the Inland Empire — like Norco, Colton and others in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties — are moving to ban the further development of warehouses in and near residential neighborhoods, which disproportionately affects low-income Hispanic or Black populations.
Purépecha community members are on the frontlines of the Salton Sea environmental and health justice crisis — one of California's worst — but they're frequently unable to participate in policy discussions regarding lithium extraction, water quality, air pollution and more.