Environment

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

There is no doubt now that some residents of two mobile home parks in El Cajon have been exposed to toxic gas seeping into their homes from a plume of contaminated groundwater. Recent air testing and a newly released health risk study make that clear. Residents of the Starlight Mobile Home Park and Greenfield Mobile Estates will have their first ... Read More »

Sempra Energy issued a statement calling a VP's comments about the viability of a 100 percent renewable grid "aspirational," took down its spinoff website. Read More »

A vice president with Sempra Energy, one of the nation’s largest utilities, made a stunning admission to a roomful of gas and oil executives this week: there is no technical impediment to California getting all of its energy from renewables – now. In simple terms, this means all power could come from sources like wind, solar and hydro without reliance ... Read More »

On the surface, it’s just a request to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for more time to prepare, due to a change in federal administration. But inside the legal filing, lead attorneys in the Trump administration Justice Department say they are taking a hard look at California’s right to set clean air rules. The case, called Dalton Trucking vs. ... Read More »