April 3, 2023 — This year’s series of atmospheric rivers has revived Lake Tulare (once the largest freshwater later west of the Mississippi River), flooding out thousands of farmworkers and disrupting the agricultural industry in the Central Valley. Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/us/tulare-lake...
March 28, 2023 — Juan Moreno Haines writes from inside San Quentin Prison in https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/imprisoned-with-climate-change/ on the impacts of climate change on the incarcerated; an extremely vulnerable population that often goes unrecognized. Faced with high population density, overcrowded conditions...
March 28, 2023 — A new study quantified the benefits of pollution reduction in terms of race and class. As noted in https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/climate/air-pollution-pm25-health-ef…, by tightening the limits on fine particulate matter from emitters like smokestacks, diesel trucks and...
June 7, 2022 — On May 20th, 2022 the BARC Governing Board approved the BARC Shared Work Plan. After a 5 month- process, including numerous working group meetings and a two-month-long public comment period, BARC has synthesized 3 initiatives to strategically align agency planning and regulatory initiatives to...
June 1, 2022 — The California State Coast Conservancy requests input via the Strategic Plan Survey. The California State Coastal Conservancy is currently going through its 5-year strategic planning process ( https://scc.ca.gov/about/plan/). The purpose of the Strategic Plan is to provide an overall vision for our...