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East Bay Unions Don’t Want Your Coal
Coal is the energy source of the past, so what is it doing in plans for our future?
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Nearly 4,000 People Fighting California’s Fires Are Paid Just $1 an Hour
California offers incarcerated people “volunteer” opportunities.
Feds Find Santa Barbara Pipeline Operator Violated Safety Requirements
A look at the Refugio spill and what goes into to preventing and cleaning up oil pipeline spills.
Relentless Wildfires, Water Scarcity and Marine Die-Offs: Living With Climate Disruption
Recent scientific reports reveal that more than half of all marine life has been wiped out since 1970.
California Moves to Regulate Medical Marijuana Industry
The state legislature has passed a package of bills designed to bring order to the billion-dollar medical pot industry.
California Activists Call for Fracking Ban
Anti fracking groups point out the contradiction between the campaign to take “carbon out of the modern economy” and strong support of fracking.
Two Years After Hunger Strike, California Settlement May Release 2,000 Prisoners From Solitary
Prisoners, advocates and their supporters see the settlement as the first step toward ending solitary confinement.
After Mass Hunger Strikes and Lawsuits, Prisoners Force California to Scale Back Solitary Confinement
California has agreed to greatly reduce the use of solitary confinement.
Big Oil Spent $6.2 Million Lobbying California Officials in Year’s First Six Months
Environmental politics has no bigger issue than than the capture of the regulatory apparatus by the regulated.
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“No Place for a Kid to Go”: A Group Home for “At-Risk” Youth Sinks Into Crisis
California is trying to move away from group care altogether, having concluded it is largely a failure.