Kern County

California Pesticide Regulators Say New Rules Protect Communities as Applications of a Dangerous Fumigant Rise

Regulators insist they’re committed to protecting health and the environment, yet continue to allow growers to use a deadly chemical banned in 40 countries.

By Liza Gross

Will Trump’s Push to Drill on California Public Lands be More Successful This Time Around?

By Blanca Begert

Green California’s Big Oil Problem

By Liza Gross

Proposals to Build California’s First Carbon Storage Facilities Face a Key Test

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Inside Climate News and Joshua Yeager, KVPR

California’s Oil Country Hopes Carbon Management Will Provide Jobs. It May Be Disappointed

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Joshua Yeager

California’s Oil Country Faces an ‘Existential’ Threat. Kern County Is Betting on the Carbon Removal Industry to Save It

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Inside Climate News, and Joshua Yeager, KVPR

California Water Regulators Still Haven’t Considered the Growing Body of Research on the Risks of Oil Field Wastewater

By Liza Gross

A California Water Board Assures the Public that Oil Wastewater Is Safe for Irrigation, But Experts Say the Evidence Is Scant 

By Liza Gross

Unchecked Oil and Gas Wastewater Threatens California Groundwater

By Liza Gross