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We’re Not Done With PFAS Yet! Earth Day Thoughts on Our Next Steps
On this Earth Day, I can’t help but think about the ideas that motivated the first Earth Day in 1970, about how far we have come, and about how much-unfinished business we have to ensure that this planet – our life-support system – is healthy for all of its inhabitants.
Chrome-6 Standard Set but Falls Short in Protecting Community Health
After seven years, the California State Water Board (SWB) finally set a needed limit for Hexavalent Chromium (chrome-6) in drinking water. Unfortunately, the set maximum limit of 10 μg/L fails to protect human health, being 500 times the Public Health Goal of 0.02 μg/L. Community partners from the Central Coast and Central Valley previously made comments before the SWB urging them to fulfill their duty and protect the health of impacted communities.
2024 Groundwater Awareness Week: Celebrating Our Great Hidden Resource
Groundwater is a huge part of California's climate adaptation plan, as hotter and more extreme weather will make our surface water supplies less reliable. Over the past two decades, a period that experts now consider a mega-drought, groundwater users pumped record amounts of groundwater, resulting in thousands of dry wells and severe land subsidence in areas of the state.
Analysis: State Water Board’s Proposal to Water Down Urban Water Conservation Regulation Leaves California at Risk of Shortages
Earlier today, water experts and environmental justice advocates provided a briefing to analyze the impacts of the State Water Board’s just-released updates to its proposed urban water conservation regulation.
ReThink Disposable joins the music business
Teaming up with reusable cup providers, r.World and TURN, along with the San Francisco Environment Department, we've achieved a remarkable feat eliminating disposable cups at historic Bay Area music venues.
