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Communities in the San Joaquin Valley still don’t have clean water. Here’s why

In drought conditions, consolidating water systems brings out ugly politics.

Laura Bliss Climate & Energy

Victory! California guv signs bill to protect clotheslines

The Sunshine State reinforces its citizens' right to hang out their laundry in public with a new law.

Heather Smith Culture

New York’s JFK airport has an urban farm. Wait, what?

An urban garden opens outside JetBlue Airways' Terminal 5.

Kate Yoder Technology

Even as House descends into chaos, it manages to do big favor for Big Oil

Republicans stopped quarreling long enough to vote for lifting the crude oil export ban, which would be good for oil companies and bad for the climate.

Ben Adler Technology

Solar panel reflecting mountains and sun

Solar power access looking a lot brighter in California

Thanks to a new bill, California is making low-income access to solar power happen on a larger scale than anywhere else in the country.

Raven Rakia Politics

Pour a glass of booze and saddle up for this week’s birth control news

We're talking imprisoned mothers, late-term abortions, Amy Poehler, and apple cake for this week's Shots & Chasers.

Eve Andrews Culture

Media disaster reporting can throw a wrench in the way you process disaster risk

A new study in Nature Climate Change suggests that news reports on natural disasters can actually reduce risk perceptions.

Clayton Aldern Culture

Trump heads to U.K. supreme court over wind farm spoiling his precious view

The billionaire presidential hopeful says wind turbines would be a blight on his landscape.

Katie Herzog Technology

California bans microbeads, fish rejoice

The Golden State is the latest to ban those tiny balls in your face wash.

Katie Herzog Culture

Self-driving cars are good. Too good

Google's driverless cars: The future is here and it just got rear-ended by the present.

Amelia Urry Technology

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