Climate education, image by LightspringOPINION – People need to be convinced that a future in which their cars, houses, stoves, and garden equipment run on electricity – and that they will need to live sustainably – will not mean a decline in their quality of life. That’s why California should mandate climate change education in grades K-12 right now.
The climate crisis, image by Marti Bug CatcherOPINION: Sound investment decisions depend on access to sound information, and when it comes to assessing the climate impacts associated with large companies’ activities and products, we are flying blind. That is why I ardently support California’s Senate Bill 253, the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act.
Image by Olivier Le Moal via ShutterstockLawmakers must work together to commit the funding and ensure that low-income communities are not left out of the state’s clean energy transition.
A photo illustration of an inflation-ravaged dollar. (Image: SERSOLL, via Shutterstock)California is poised to benefit strongly from the federal Inflation Reduction Act, a massive, hard-fought and newly passed package meant to address healthcare, climate change and myriad other issues across the county.