Transformative Climate Communities Program News Today

The Coachella Prospera initiative is one of four programs awarded a grant from the state's Transformative Climate Communities Program.

$98 million for eleven community-led climate projects throughout California that aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

City leaders are looking to bring millions in state funding to San Diego’s historic barrios. They’re asking for community input on how to spend that money.

California approved $96.2 million in grants this week to fund 10 climate projects led by tribal, unincorporated and disadvantaged communities.

Commentary President Biden has not given up on his “Build Back Better” bill, despite Senator Joe Manchin repeatedly ...

The 2021‑22 budget package provides a total of $21.7 billion from various fund sources—the General Fund, bond funds, and various special funds—for programs administered by the California Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Agencies. This is a net increase of $4.8 billion (22 percent) compared to 2020‑21 estimated expenditures.

STOCKTON — PUENTES is more than just a farm. The 10-year-old Stockton organization operates Boggs Tract Community Farm but is also conducting tree-planting initiatives, victory gardens, virtual classes for kids and entrepreneurial guidance in COVID-safe ways during the pandemic. Promotores Unidas Para la Educacion Nacional Tecnologias Sostenibles – PUENTES, as it is more commonly known – was formed when Jeremy Terhune returned to Stockton after working with the Peace Corps in Panama. ...

Michael Tubbs losing his Stockton mayoral reelection bid didn’t make anyone’s 2020 top 10 tragedies list. The year was far too brutal for a political wunderkind’s early career hiccup to register as anything more than a pause. Tubbs, 30, became the youngest mayor in the country of a city with more than 100,000 residents (Stockton has around 313,000) when he was elected in 2016, the same night Donald Trump won the presidency. Tubbs remembers it well, “I was thinking, ‘Wo...