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Chevron Reports Progress in Flaring, Emissions at Community Town Hall
At the first in a series of community town halls on Oct. 16, Chevron Richmond reported a reduction in year-over-year…
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Advanced Conductors Provide Path for Grid Expansion
Several reconductoring projects have been initiated in Belgium and the Netherlands, and utility companies in the U.S. have used the…
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OP-ED: Hydrogen’s Promise a Path to Cleaner Air and Jobs for Oakland
For too long, Black, Latino, and lower-income communities, particularly those in industrial truck corridors along West and East Oakland and…
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California Assembly Passes Bill Backed by Newsom to Prevent Gas Price Spikes
On Oct. 1, during a special session, the California Assembly advanced Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to prevent gasoline price spikes,…
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Granholm Visits “Green the Church” in Oakland
On June 7, Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary, made a visit to Green the Church (GTC) in Oakland.…
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PG&E Increases Rates While Bay Area Households Are Struggling to Stay Afloat
Prior to the pandemic, less than 2% of callers were asking for utility assistance, but in the last year that…
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Opinion: California Needs to Do More to Boost Employment for Black Americans
California must act now to confront today’s Black job crisis. The Bureau of Labor Statistics last year reported that 90%…
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Biden’s ‘Hydrogen Hub’ Plan Set to Generate Thousands of Clean Energy Jobs in California
Last week, clean energy advocates and industry experts praised a new federal government program that is expected to bring thousands…
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Minority Environmental Justice Groups Want to Connect to Millions in EPA Funding for California
The California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) says the programs they have in place to restore decades of environmental devastation and…
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Richmond Hosting No-Cost Home Solar Program Workshop
The Richmond City Manager’s Office Economic Development Department in partnership with GRID Alternatives will host their annual workshop regarding the…
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COMMENTARY: Ensuring Our Right to Invest in the Next Generation’s Future
If a public opinion poll done last month is right, more than half of you won’t know what I mean…
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COMMENTARY: Aikido is More than Martial Arts: It’s Community
For the last six years, I’ve practiced Aikido at a Berkeley dojo called the Aiki Arts Center—previously named Aikido Shusekai.…
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COMMENTARY: Make Banks Make Good on Their Pledge to End Fossil Fuel Financing
ConocoPhillips needs more than the disastrous approval it won from the Biden administration last week to proceed with its Willow…
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Oakland High Varsity Basketball Team Wins State Championship
The Oakland High School varsity basketball team took the state championship on Friday, March 11 in Sacramento at Golden Arco…
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Biden Reveals He’ll Deliver Eulogy for Former President Jimmy Carter
President Jimmy Carter served in the Navy during World War II, and his administration created the U.S. Department of Energy…
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COMMENTARY: A Historic Vote and the Tools It Gave Us
Vice President Kamala Harris is sure to be remembered every March in Women’s History Month as the first woman and…
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Meneses Goes Deep Against Team USA
Joey Rocks Team USA Photo: Special to the NY Beacon By Joshua Garcia Phoenix, Arizona – Two hours…
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S.F. Bay Area Pandemic Recovery Among Worst in U.S.
San Francisco’s recovery from the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the worst in the country among major…
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California Reconsiders Potential of College Work-Study Jobs
When she returned to school to become a nurse, Karina Mendez wanted a work-study job that she could balance with…
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Bay Area Native Dr. Terri Jett Honored by Indiana’s Butler University
Terri Jett arrived at Butler University in 1999 to begin her teaching career as an assistant professor of Political Science…
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PG&E Distributes Climate Credit Early to Cut March Gas Bills
Customers of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company can expect a significant decrease in their March natural gas bills after…
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Robert Glasper Brings BLACK RADIO to Emancipation Park for the Jazzy Sundays Series
ABOVE: Robert Glasper performs at the Jazzy Sundays series in Emancipation Park (Photo by Jared… The post Robert Glasper Brings…
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Prairie View A&M and Texas Southern Universities Announce Major Advancements in the Area of Transportation
Prairie View A&M is the first HBCU to lead a National Transportation Center; Texas Southern… The post Prairie View A&M…
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Nearly 100,000 women of color went missing in 2020, and now one state wants to do something about it
Despite making up only 13 percent of the female population in the U.S., studies have shown that Black women account…
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Still No Determination on COVID-19 Origin
SciCheck Digest Most U.S. intelligence agencies assess a spillover from an animal is most likely… The post Still No Determination…
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