Breathers citywide are eager to learn who will take home a coveted golden inhaler—The Smoggie—at this year’s inaugural awards event for Fresno’s worst votes and quotes on air pollution and climate [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change
La catástrofe climática, de Kentucky a Kampala
En Estados Unidos, una serie de tornados devastadores azotaron Kentucky y los estados vecinos el viernes por la noche. La mega tormenta, llamada “de supercélulas”, recorrió más de 320 kilómetros y [...] Continue Reading
Think Global, Act Local: Transportation
Greenland’s glaciers are melting faster than the icy walls of the Fresno County Transportation Authority, but a large fissure cracked open in early November. The breach came when Measure C Renewal [...] Continue Reading
No More Oil Drilling Where We Live, Study and Play!
On Oct. 21, Governor Gavin Newsom traveled to Wilmington, Calif., to make a surprising announcement. Surrounded by doctors, environmental justice leaders and California legislators who have championed [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change, Wildfires and the Future of Giant Sequoias
The firefighting effort to suppress Sequoia National Park’s KNP Complex Fire is beginning to wind down after burning nearly 90,000 acres of drought-stressed forest. With containment increasing around [...] Continue Reading
Fresno City Council Ignores Climate Plan
California’s fifth most populous city is sinking fast beneath the weight of developer control of every City Council seat on the downtown dais. Bereft of leadership on climate change, air pollution and [...] Continue Reading
Wildfire Smoke Choking Us
By Nayamin Martinez Fresno and the surrounding counties have been blanketed with smoke from the Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park wildfires, forcing many of us to stay indoors [...] Continue Reading
Make “C” Stand for Climate, Community
By Kevin Hall Twenty years ago, local business and political leaders learned an important lesson at the ballot box: People really want clean air. That’s why in 2002 voters rejected the first [...] Continue Reading
“Disappointed” Enough for Change?
By Kevin Hall The year 2020 tied 2016 as the hottest in human history. Other new records were set for Arctic heat and wildfires, tropical storms in the Atlantic, and locally, the Creek Fire, the [...] Continue Reading
This “Common Ground” Is too Polluted
By Kevin Hall “The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius] and the risk of setting off irreversible chain [...] Continue Reading