West Coast

Vintners and Farmers Are Breathing Easier After the Demise of Proposition 15, a ‘Headache’ at Best

The measure would have increased property taxes on commercial property worth more than $3 million. It exempted agricultural land, but not farm buildings.

By Evelyn Nieves

Luis Magaña Has Spent 20 Years Advocating for Farmworkers, But He’s Never Seen Anything Like This

By Evelyn Nieves

Q&A: The Sierra Club Embraces Environmental Justice, Forcing a Difficult Internal Reckoning

By Evelyn Nieves

Sparring Over a ‘Tiny Little Fish,’ a Legendary Biologist Calls President Trump ‘an Ignorant Bully’

By Evelyn Nieves

The Biggest Threat to Growing Marijuana in California Used to Be the Law. Now, it’s Climate Change

By Evelyn Nieves

California Farm Bureau Fears Improvements Like Barns, and Even Trees, Will Be Taxed Under Prop. 15

By Evelyn Nieves

The Grandson of a Farmworker Now Heads the California Assembly’s Committee on Agriculture

By Evelyn Nieves

A Most ‘Sustainable’ Vineyard in a ‘Completely Unsustainable’ Year

By Evelyn Nieves

As Wildfire Smoke Blots Out the Sun in Northern California, Many Ask: ‘Where Are the Birds?’

By Deborah Petersen

A Siege of 80 Large, Uncontained Wildfires Sweeps the Hot, Dry West

By Michael Kodas

10 Days of Climate Extremes: From Record Heat to Wildfires to the One-Two Punch of Hurricane Laura

By Bob Berwyn

‘Is This Real Life?’ A Wall of Fire Robs a Russian River Town of its Nonchalance

By Evelyn Nieves

As Covid-19 Surges, California Farmworkers Are Paying a High Price

By Evelyn Nieves

Two Farmworkers Come Into Their Own, Escaping Low Pay, Rigid Hours and a High Risk of Covid-19

By Evelyn Nieves

A Proud California Dairy Farmer Battles for Survival in Wildly Uncertain Times

By Evelyn Nieves

A Young Farmer Confronts Climate Change—and a Pandemic

By Evelyn Nieves

'Essential' but Unprotected, Farmworkers Live in Fear of Covid-19 but Keep Working

By Evelyn Nieves