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After Five Years in Fighting Disney in Courts, Anaheim Living Wage Law to Take Effect

Despite the long delay to raise resort workers’ wages close to $20 an hour, their 2018 victory inspired labor collaboration driving current strikes.

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Pennsylvania Governor’s Deal With Fracking Company Splits Environmentalists

Voluntary agreement on health and safety reforms hailed as progress but critics say it lacks teeth.

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‘They Can’t Breathe’

In many poor, largely Black Southern towns, residents say polluting wood pellet mills foul their air and forests.

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Texas Sees ‘Bonanza’ in Carbon Storage Market

Critics say Railroad Commission and politicians focus on business, not environmental protection.

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Bay Area Hospice Workers Vote to Unionize

The Hospice East Bay vote shows growing unionization at end-of-life care.

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New Mexico’s Hydrogen Plans in Turmoil; Newsom Focuses on Oil Wells

California closes loopholes on polluting wells, but still lets companies avoid capping idled wells.

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Los Angeles Mayor Orders Residential Hotels to Be Opened for Temporary Shelter

A 2008 city law intended hotels used as primary residences to be preserved as safety-net housing. But with little enforcement, some landlords had turned their buildings into tourist hotels.

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Poverty and Long COVID Go Together

The lowest income Californians are more likely to have lingering symptoms, and more likely to lose jobs.

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New Mexico’s Wild Hydrogen Days

State hydrogen projects promoted, killed; governor goes to Australian hydrogen conference with oil and gas reps.

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As Coal Mines Close, Displaced Miners Find Work in Renewable Energy Boom

A battery startup in West Virginia and the mineworkers union may have a blueprint for those left behind in the energy transition.

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Lessons From the Bust That Followed Bill Clinton’s Economic Boom

Historian Nelson Lichtenstein’s new book details the price we have paid for free trade, deregulation and failed health care reform.

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Toothless Laws Allow the Los Angeles Hotel Strike to Stall

All sides must bargain in “good faith,” but U.S. labor laws do not say what that means, and penalties are weak.

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Director Raoul Peck Explores the Crisis of Black Land Loss

New documentary Silver Dollar Road tells the story of massive Black wealth taken through faulty laws and loopholes.

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Californians of Color Disproportionately Suffer From Late Detection of Dementia

Doctors, family and community all have a role in ensuring critical early treatment.

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As Colorado Races to Set New Rules for Climate-Friendly Industries, Its Plan Raises Concerns Over Dual Role of State Regulator

Coal is back, despite banks’ pledge to stop financing such projects.

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U.S. Undoes Progress on Child Poverty as Spending Cuts Take Priority

The end of pandemic relief programs is returning millions of children to poverty.

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California Lets Companies Keep ‘Dangerous’ Oil Wells Unplugged Forever

An idle well fee program is masking vast cleanup costs while harming residents and the climate.

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Can a Single Colorado Agency Oversee Both Fossil Fuel and Clean Energy Production?

Tension over energy industry oversight has sparked a rare agreement between climate activists and the oil and gas industry.

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Spilling the Tea

Growing up in his family’s iconic Chinese restaurant taught Curtis Chin how to survive in 1980s Detroit — and how to embrace his identity as a gay Asian American.

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Kaiser’s Massive Mental Health Care Settlement Sends Strong Message to Providers That Ignore Patient Needs

A California settlement compels the state’s largest health care provider to spend $150 million on behavioral health services.

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Banks Keep Financing Coal Despite Their Net-Zero Pledges Thanks to Massive Loophole

JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank and Wells Fargo are among those putting big money into companies that operate coal plants.

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In Los Angeles Hospital Strike, Nurses Say Staffing Is Issue No. 1

Cuts and turnover, even more than pay, make their jobs impossible, they say.

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As Moms for Liberty Spreads, So Does School Turmoil

Opposition builds as parents’ group stokes nation’s culture wars.

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Time to Kill Off ‘Net Zero’

Stop pretending planting trees can justify fossil fuels emissions.

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California Poets Confront Urgent Challenges Through ‘Poets on the Beat’ Project

Poets tackle the climate crisis, inequality and police violence in powerful essays.

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