On June 7, 2016 voters will once again have an opportunity to demonstrate their support for the acquisition, development, and operation of regional parks for everyone in Santa Clara County. With approval, Measure A will continue the Park Charter Fund, ensuring a critical local, stable funding source for...

Suzanne Potter / California News Service LOS ANGELES – As the National Park Service turns 100 this summer, a broad coalition of conservation, civil rights, environmental justice and faith-based groups is pressing the White House to make public lands more welcoming to people of color. The group has launched a...

Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss / EarthTalk While potent in its day as the film that put climate change on the public radar, An Inconvenient Truth, now a decade old, is hardly the last word in green documentaries anymore. Perhaps that honor will go to Disobedience, a 35-minute paean to...

Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss/EarthTalk An analysis by The Guardian last September 2015 revealed that affected VWs in the U.S. are likely emitting between 10,392 and 41,571 tons of toxic nitrogen oxides (NOx) into the air every year, based on typical annual mileage counts. If those vehicles had complied...

Suzanne Potter / California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif – El Senado de los Estados Unidos aprobo el miercoles una iniciativa que autorizaria de manera permanente el “Land and Water Conservation Fund” (Fondo para la Conservacion de la Tierra y Agua), el cual ha significado billones de dolares en fondos para...

San Francisco / CALIFORNIA Seis héroes medioambientales fueron galardonados hoy con el Premio Goldman del Medio Ambiente. Considerado el Premio Nóbel de la ecología, el Goldman se otorga anualmente a activistas de base que hayan contribuido significativamente a proteger el medio ambiente y a sus comunidades, con frecuencia pese...

Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss / EARTH TALK As sustainability becomes more mainstream, more and more products today advertise their green credentials—with many displaying third-party certifications on their labels. But how can consumers know which certifications are legit? Americans’ confidence in green labels reached a low in 2011 when the...

Suzanne Potter / California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California has almost 50,000 oil wells and more than 4,100 gas wells – and a new report says federal law allows companies to use chemicals for drilling and fracking with virtually no health testing and then use confidentiality claims to hide...

Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss / EarthTalk The idea of beautifying highway medians with plantings goes back five decades when Lady Bird Johnson pushed the Highway Beautification Act through Congress in 1965. Today, Americans are starting to think about undeveloped land alongside and between roadways as a low cost and...