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Climate Activists Stage Mock Funeral for Landmark Climate Rule

The Trump EPA’s repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding revokes the agency’s authority to regulate climate pollution. Environmental activists are mourning the loss while vowing to resurrect it.

By Liza Gross

California Congressman Vows to Challenge Trump’s ‘Big Ugly Bill’

By Liza Gross

A toxic site in San Francisco’s Mission District, polluted with gasoline that leaked from storage tanks, is undergoing cleanup. Such remediations take longer in communities of color than majority-white communities. Credit: Laura Wenus/San Francisco Public Press

Toxic Cleanups in San Francisco Take More Than Four Years Longer in Communities of Color

By Audrey Mei Yi Brown, San Francisco Public Press

Do Heat Pumps Save You Money? In California, It Depends on Your Electric Utility

By Twilight Greenaway

Arieann Harrison talks with longtime Hunters Point resident Antoine Mahan about his concern that truck traffic to and from the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard may be worsening air quality along Innes Avenue, where he lives. Credit: Audrey Mei Yi Brown/San Francisco Public Press

Toxic Waste Cleanups Take Longer in Marginalized San Francisco Communities

By Audrey Mei Yi Brown, San Francisco Public Press

Supreme Court Puts Another Limit on the EPA’s Ability to Protect Water

By Jake Bolster

Building Decarbonization Could Push Out Low-Income Renters. A San Francisco Program Hopes to Prevent That

By Twilight Greenaway

Record-Breaking Heat Waves Add to Risks for Western Monarchs

By Liza Gross

San Francisco Ferry Fleet Gets New Emissions-Free Addition

By Ruchi Shahagadkar

California’s Bay Area is Heating Up. Its Infrastructure Isn’t Designed For It

By Ruchi Shahagadkar

Climate Justice Groups Confront Chevron on San Francisco Bay

By Liza Gross

Developers have redesigned Treasure Island to withstand a rising San Francisco Bay, elevating land and setting aside space for ever-higher sea walls. Engineers say planned fortifications will hold — but with flood risk accelerating, no one knows for how long. Credit: Yesica Prado/San Francisco Public Press

Promising to Prevent Floods at Treasure Island, Builders Downplay Risk of Sea Rise

By Kristi Coale, San Francisco Public Press

In the San Francisco Bay Area, the Pandemic Connects Rural Farmers and Urban Communities

By Kiley Bense

In San Francisco’s Most Polluted Neighborhood, the Polluters Operate Without Proper Permits, Reports Say

By Elena Shao

In San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point Neighborhood, Advocates Have Taken Air Monitoring Into Their Own Hands

By Elena Shao

Reimagining Coastal Cities as Sponges to Help Protect Them From the Ravages of Climate Change

By Elena Shao

San Francisco's Oceanside wastewater treatment plant

Water Utilities Enlist Climate Scientists

By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

Cisco Pits San Francisco vs. Amsterdam in Race to 21st Century Sustainability

By Amy Westervelt

West Coast Awash in Wave Power Proposals, But Progress Is Slow

By Johanna Peace

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