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California Regulators Banned Fracking Wastewater for Irrigation, but Allow Wastewater From Oil Drilling. Scientists Say There’s Little Difference

An analysis by Inside Climate News found many of the same chemicals in “produced” water from fracking and conventional drilling. “It doesn’t matter from a chemical perspective,” one scientist said.

By Liza Gross

People with Valley Fever undergo treatment at San Joaquin Valley Pulmonary. Credit: Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Climate Change is Spreading a Debilitating Fungal Disease Throughout the West

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

A family wears face masks as they walk through the smoke filled streets after the Thomas wildfire swept through Ventura, California on Dec. 6, 2017. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

The ‘State of the Air’ in America Is Unhealthy and Getting Worse, Especially for People of Color

By Kristoffer Tigue

A worker on a farm wears a Tyvek chemical protective suit as he sprays a field with a herbicide after the broccoli harvest. Credit: Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis via Getty Images

‘Reduced Risk’ Pesticides Are Widespread in California Streams

By Liza Gross

Fracking fluid and other drilling wastes are dumped into an unlined pit located right up against the Petroleum Highway in Kern County, California. Credit: Sarah Craig/Faces of Fracking

Unchecked Oil and Gas Wastewater Threatens California Groundwater

By Liza Gross

A firefighting helicopter flies past smoke plumes after making a water drop during the Dixie Fire on Aug. 18, 2021 near Susanville, California. Credit: Patrick T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images

Dangerous Air: As California Burns, America Breathes Toxic Smoke

By Alison Saldanha, Farida Jhabvala Romero, Caleigh Wells and Aaron Glantz

Farmworkers harvest cucumbers at Full Belly Farm in Guinda, California. Credit: Liza Gross

Farming Without a Net

By Liza Gross

Can California Reduce Dairy Methane Emissions Equitably?

By Liza Gross

Water birds fly over the Sacrameno-San Joaquin River Delta, which boasts a diversity of flora and fauna that thrive in wetlands about the size of Orange County. Credit: Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A Delta in Distress

By Liza Gross

A farmworker wears a face mask while harvesting curly mustard in a field on Feb. 10, 2021 in Ventura County, California. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

For Farmworkers, Heat Too Often Means Needless Death

By Liza Gross

Forests of the Living Dead

By Liza Gross

Austun Wilde rests with her two dogs at a cooling center in the Oregon Convention Center on June 27, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. Record breaking temperatures lingered over the Northwest during a historic heatwave this weekend. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Global Warming Cauldron Boils Over in the Northwest in One of the Most Intense Heat Waves on Record Worldwide

By Judy Fahys, Bob Berwyn

A bee pollinates a flower on an almond tree in Dixon, California, on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

California’s Almond Trees Rely on Honey Bees and Wild Pollinators, but a Lack of Good Habitat is Making Their Job Harder

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Sheep graze in a dry field near the town of McFarland in California's Central Valley, August 24, 2016. The Central Valley is the state's agriculture hub producing vast quantities of fruits, vegetables, nuts as well as dairy, beef and lamb but struggled through five years of the last drought. Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

California’s Relentless Droughts Strain Farming Towns

By Liza Gross

A helicopter sprays insecticide on a field outside of El Centro, California in the Imperial Valley on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Credit: Sandy Huffaker/Corbis via Getty Images

In California’s Farm Country, Climate Change Is Likely to Trigger More Pesticide Use, Fouling Waterways

By Liza Gross

Purple urchins consume the remainder of a small giant kelp. In the background, an urchin barren has cleared the majority of nearby kelp and algae leaving an environment less hospitable for many species. Credit: Michael Langhans

In the Pacific, Global Warming Disrupted The Ecological Dance of Urchins, Sea Stars And Kelp. Otters Help Restore Balance.

By Mallory Pickett and Bob Berwyn

Video: In California, the Northfork Mono Tribe Brings ‘Good Fire’ to Overgrown Woodlands

Video By Adam Sings in the Timber; Text By Michael Kodas

Center Street, near the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley was the first city in the United States to pass an ordinance that banned natural gas hookups in new construction. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

A Furious Industry Backlash Greets Moves by California Cities to Ban Natural Gas in New Construction

By Dan Gearino

Each day more than 12 million pounds of garbage is dumped, spread, compacted and finally covered with a layer of dirt at the Klickitat County landfill owned by Republic Services. It sits on a plateau above the Columbia River in southern Washington. Credit: Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times

Turning Trash to Natural Gas: Utilities Fight for Their Future Amid Climate Change

Hal Bernton, Seattle Times

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