As the new General Manager of the SFPUC, Herrera would bring decades of experience serving San Francisco residents and advancing the fight for significant environmental policies.
Newsom suggested that climate change has increased the severity of drought conditions in California, a sentiment shared by the Public Policy Institute of California.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Cummings was committed to ensuring that the next generation has access to quality healthcare and education, clean air and water, and a strong...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) Chairman Carrie Zalewski today announced the release of a Citizen’s Guide on the ICC website to help the public...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — Ten months after Los Angeles County took over the troubled Sativa Water District, county officials have announced dramatic improvements to the water system that...
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — The Executive Director of the Sewerage & Water Board (S&WB), Ghassan Korban believes it’s time for the citizens of New...
THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE — The officials will admit there is a lead crisis in the drinking water, in certain parts of the city in Newark New...
THE AFRO — Water has for the most part has been restored to the residents of Poe Homes in West Baltimore. But an air of wariness...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — The county Board of Supervisors has voted to pour more resources into Sativa Water District after the county Public Works Department identified the...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Kiawah Beachwalker Park reopened on Friday, May 24 at 9 a.m. in time for the Memorial Day weekend. Showers and changing rooms are still...
THE SEATTLE MEDIUM — Reacting to pervasive lead contamination in schools’ drinking water, Environment Washington Research and Policy Center (RPC) and WashPIRG Foundation gave Washington State an...
BLACK VOICE NEWS — Communities across California and throughout the country are facing a pressing need to address water infrastructure.
HUDSON VALLEY PRESS — Although some greener alternatives exist, most dry cleaners still use perchloroethylene, a petroleum-based solvent that can be hazardous to the human central nervous...
BLACK VOICE NEWS — The cost of insulin nearly tripled from 2002 to 2013 and has doubled again since then.
(Bloomberg) – Californians are suffering an historic drought, Brazilians are rationing water and Chile’s Atacama desert is creeping south. Now Caribbean nations from Jamaica to Trinidad that have...
(Yahoo) – When Martin Riese first introduced his 46-page water menu at Ray’s and Stark Bar in Los Angeles two years ago, he didn’t exactly...
(National Geographic) – The oceans have long taunted those who thirst. Records dating to A.D. 200 show that sailors boiled seawater and used sponges to...
By Kate Abbey-Lambertz, Huffington Post Detroit’s been shutting off water to customers who reportedly can’t afford to pay their bills, and United Nations experts said Wednesday...
By Steve Hockensmith, UC Berkeley News As 2013 came to a close, the media dutifully reported that the year had been the driest in California since...