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Homebuyers in the Chula Vista community known as Village of Escaya can’t move into their homes because government officials have stopped installation of water meters. Read More »
Environment
Two ways natural gas may be escaping at your meter
Natural gas is leaking – sometimes deliberately – from residential gas meters up and down the state of California. That surprise is buried in state documents, a review by inewsource has found. The leaks don’t mean you’re in danger of an explosion. But tiny amounts of natural gas escaping from gas meters not only cost you money, they can be ... Read More »
Two years after Aliso Canyon disaster, hundreds say they’re still sick
Hundreds attended a presentation to hear from a doctor who has been collecting and sending out samples of residents’ blood, urine and hair to laboratories. Read More »
Electricity alone powers one quarter of U.S. homes
Recently we reported that for climate reasons, some environmental groups are starting to advocate for all-electric homes. Those are homes in which all the appliances including heaters, hot water heaters and stoves run on electricity, not natural gas. When it is burned, or particularly if it leaks out unburned, natural gas contributes to climate change. The electricity we get from ... Read More »
Your climate this week
Here are a couple of items of climate news from the last few days you might not want to miss. One is a call by two climate scientists. They want us to spend a little more time contemplating what life on Earth could be like by mid-century: the 5 percent possibility that global warming will be catastrophic by 2050. Imagine ... Read More »
Colonias on U.S.-Mexico border struggle with decades-old water issues
Thousands of Latinos living in colonias along the U.S.-Mexico border drink water from unsafe private wells and inadequate municipal water systems. Read More »
How natural gas became the dirty fuel, at least in your home
Not long ago natural gas was hailed as the clean “bridge fuel,” the one that would create a safe transition from dirtier home fuels such as coal and oil to a fully renewable future. But now the gold standard for a home, from a climate-change perspective, is to go all electric, some experts say. Read More »
El Cajon family endures months, possibly years of toxic indoor air
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSAlex and Vicki Masters are devoted parents. Their 8-year-old son Vincent has his own area of the living room for his Lego bricks, and a baby gate keeps his 8-month-old brother, Gabriel, away from the small choking hazards. The baby can crawl across a brightly blanketed room, all under the gaze of his brother ... Read More »
Jerry Brown likely to face decision on 100 percent clean electricity
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSA key vote this week in Sacramento has moved California closer than most people could imagine to a future in which all electricity — 100 percent of it — is produced without releasing more carbon into the air. When Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De León proposed the bill, many viewed it as aspirational. ... Read More »
Company offers air testing to all El Cajon mobile home residents
Ametek, Inc. is offering to test the air in any home in the three mobile home communities located over an increasingly high profile chemical plume that runs underground through part of El Cajon. The company is among those responsible for disposing of waste chemicals from a manufacturing site decades ago, and is now the sole responsible party. Another, Ketema Aerospace, ... Read More »