Editorial: Biden s climate shift is a break and a test for Newsom
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On the hood of an electric car, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs an executive order requiring all new passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035 after a press conference on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, at Cal Expo in Sacramento. It s a move the governor says would achieve a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. California would be the first state with such a rule, though Germany and France are among 15 other countries that have a similar requirement. (Daniel Kim/The Sacramento Bee via AP, Pool)Daniel Kim / AP
Published: Saturday, 23 January 2021 05:56
Fellows Deployed as Part of California Volunteers-Led California Climate Action Corps
January 23, 2021 - SACRAMENTO – Over the last two weeks California Volunteers, Office of the Governor hosted a series of virtual events to welcome the Fellows of the first-ever statewide climate corps in the nation, California Climate Action Corps. Sixty-three Fellows across California will spend nearly eight months advancing climate action projects such as urban tree planting, food sustainability, and wildfire resilience in some of the state’s most vulnerable communities.
During the two-week orientation, Fellows participated in virtual sessions presented by climate experts, community leaders and elected officials. In a recording, Governor Gavin Newsom welcomed the Fellows and thanked them for their commitment to fight climate change.
Thursday, December 24, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
Mary Nichols, who has been chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board since 2007, poses for a portrait outside her home in Los Angeles on Dec. 15, 2020.
Photo by Kendrick Brinson for CalMatters
“What were you thinking?” California’s top clean air enforcer Mary Nichols asked auto industry executives. “What were you thinking when you threw yourselves upon the mercy of the Trump administration to try to solve your problems?”
It was March of 2017, just two months into Donald Trump’s presidency, and the California Air Resources Board had gathered for a board meeting in Riverside to review the state’s clean car plans.
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Dillon Delvo never set out to become an environmental justice crusader. But as a native resident of Stockton, Calif., the second-generation Filipino American has long been forced to breathe some of the nation’s worst pollution. Crisscrossed by five freeways and home to a bustling seaport and the associated network of trucks, cars, railways, and ships, Stockton is burdened by California’s highest asthma rate. It is also the nation’s most racially diverse city, with ample Black, Hispanic, Asian American, and white populations included among its 313,000 residents.