“In Altadena, a series of public and private failures left Black households most likely to face the complete loss of a home — a racial line seen nationwide, regardless of the type of disaster, due to housing policies that have left people of color in disaster zones." capitalbnews.org/black-retire...
Here's the thing: 2.5-3C of global warming is actually still really bad news. Is it better than 3-5C of warming? Undoubtedly. But I don't think many folks, apparently including Gates & advisors, appreciate just how radically transformed a 2.5-3C warmer world would be. [10/n]
We’re making our voices heard and letting legislators know that we’re watching and that we care about environmental justice." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
California playgrounds and open spaces are getting hotter, but few have much shading and many are actually losing tree cover, a team led by the UC Davis Urban Science Lab finds www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
💧☀️ Read in #ERW how climate change impacts mountain snowpack and the implications this has for agricultural water security in California 🫗🌽
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#Environment #Water #Agriculture #ClimateChange #Snow #Irrigation #Hydrology #WaterResources ⛲🌾
Exxon Mobil sued California late Friday claiming that two new state laws that aim to fight climate change would violate the oil company’s free speech rights.
Major scoop from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social:
Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.
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In the 2025 State of Wildfires report, the authors suggest that climate change made southern California wildfires much more expansive in 2025, increasing burned area 25-fold. And also that, in decades ahead, fire risk may *decrease* in the region, despite warming. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
I'm proud to help lead the United Nations' #COP30 Local Leaders Forum next month in Brazil.
Regional leaders — from mayors to governors — are uniquely able to turn ambitious plans to tackle the climate crisis into reality at the local level.
California is all-hands-on-deck in this fight.
Hundreds of students across more than 50 California high schools are planning to participate in walkouts on Oct. 24 to voice support for legislation that would hold oil companies accountable for damage to infrastructure and costs associated with the climate crisis.
Learn more: bit.ly/47gxqSv
“You’re paying home and business owners to be part of the solution to accommodate data centers. They’re already facing bill increases, not just because of large loads but because of utility investments, costs of climate change. This is a way to offset that.”
www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir...
California Resource Corp broke ground on state's 1st carbon capture project— "Carbon TerraVault" — but it will also enable more oil extraction.
At the ribbon-cutting Chris Parlier, Kern County Supervisor said, "It’s jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs and drill, baby drill."
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"Where we've gone awry is that we've put flood insurance in the automobile & household insurance buckets, and those are high-probability low-consequence events. Flood insurance is a low-probability high-consequence event, and more like life insurance."
caclimateequity.substack.com/p/its-not-if...
"China Has Overtaken America--And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up"
by @pkrugman.bsky.social
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🎉 BREAKING: #SB279, introduced by @senatormcnerney, has been signed into law!
By expanding composting capacity, we can divert food scraps from landfills and provide California growers with a climate-friendly alternative to open burning.
Several images of zero-emission school buses are shown. One image includes students boarding a yellow school bus next to a pile of backpacks. "California Climate Investment Programs help students take clean rides to school." California Air Resources Board and California Climate Investments.
(1/3) Three school districts, the Stockton Unified School District, Oakland Unified School District, and McKinleyville Union School District, transformed their buses into 100% zero-emission fleets thanks to several California Climate Investment programs.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Monday that lays the groundwork for a 2026 ballot measure to shore up funding for Bay Area transit systems through a new sales tax.
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A housing shortage crisis combined with an era of climate-fueled wildfires has made building homes a fraught undertaking across much of California.
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🌱 Big changes ahead for #California nurseries:
At the 2025 California Nursery Conference, growers got updates on new laws around plastics, water use & nutrients — all as climate change turns up the heat.
#CaliforniaNursery #Sustainability #AgPolicy
➡️ bit.ly/4mYFc9s
"Though snakes may make you recoil, they’re essential parts of our ecosystems. The giant gartersnake is unique to California, found only in the Central Valley. It is the largest of all garter snakes — some have been documented at more than 5 feet long!" @laist.com
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[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!
Our statement:
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The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.
For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.
This conversation on how media adds to obstruction on climate action by @amywestervelt.bsky.social with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social is really good
EDIT: The companies that profit off those most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds.
"More than half of America’s sandy beaches will be lost by 2100 due to climate-driven sea level rise, with that number at 70% in California." - @surfrider.org.
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