Climate Pulse

The upcoming November election contains a ballot initiative that will threaten all Californians’ health and safety. But the Latino community will suffer disproportionate harm, as CAP’s Jorge Madrid explains. Proposition 23 will undo California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, also known... [continue]

Poor Carly Fiorina.  To make conservative ideologues happy, she has to abandon science and her previous positions on the key issues of global warming and clean energy (see “The dumbing down of Carly Fiorina” and links below). But to win election statewide, she has to appeal to the... [continue]

Photo: Flickr, CC Should Access for Regular Hybrids be Phased Out? In California, vehicles that meet certain fuel economy and tailpipe emission criteria are granted special access to the high occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV, aka the carpool lane). In car-centric places like Los Angeles, it's a huge... [continue]

Image credit: OnEarth Magazine When I wrote about the NRDC's new Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops, and asked whether industrial monoculture was the real path to sustainable farming, the response from many of our readers was unsurprisingly lackluster. "Lipstick on a pig", said Bert Harvey. "A... [continue]

photo: BLM There've been multiple gigawatts of solar thermal power plants planned for various places in the California desert for some time, but finally some more of them are getting the approvals need so that construction can start: The US Bureau of Land Management has issued a final environmental... [continue]

Image credit: Amanda Friedman/OnEarth Magazine Some have been wondering whether Obama is really on the side of sustainable farming or industrial agriculture. Others, however, are busy wondering whether industrial agriculture really is sustainable farming after all. In a provocative OnEarth Magazine... [continue]

The economic benefits of climate and clean energy policies, such as California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, or AB 32, are clear.  The Center for American Progress and this blog have reported on the opportunities for growth and job creation from AB 32 several times (see “A California Campaign... [continue]

Photo: PG&E Currently the Largest-Scale Form of Grid Storage Available Last week, California's PG&E filed a request with regulators to study the feasibility of building a new "pumped hydro storage" facility in the Mokelumne River watershed in Amador County. It would store energy by pumping... [continue]

Photo via fruitforourchildren.com In May 2010, TreeHugger reported on the research linking pesticide exposure and ADHD in children. A study published recently in Environmental Health Perspectives by U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health researchers found that exposure of children to... [continue]

People are always asking me what they can do right now on behalf of the climate and clean energy. Perhaps the top near-term priority is to defeat the fossil fuel-funded Prop 23 effort to repeal California’s clean energy climate laws this November. Here are five things you can do to win this... [continue]