Trump on Thursday loosened federal rules requiring grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cooling equipment.
In court papers filed as part of a lawsuit challenging the funding cuts, EPA lawyers revealed plans to cut roughly 400 more grants in the upcoming weeks, nearly doubling the reported total of 377 to nearly 800.
Out of more than 200 metro areas, the Bay Area is the 14th worst for ozone and sixth worst for annual particle pollution.
This week, students and scientists at Stanford have been rolling out innovations waiting to be scaled up and potentially help solve the most urgent problems facing our planet. But it comes at a time when science is facing new challenges of its own in a fast-changing political climate.
When the Trump administration ordered the Army Corp of Engineers to open the gates on two Federal dams in California earlier this year, it may have been the first shot in an evolving war on California's water and environmental protections.
In a virtual town hall, PG&E reiterated the battery plant fires broke out at Vistra's Moss Landing facility and not their own as both companies are included in a lawsuit by more than 60 business owners and residents.