September 29, 2016 | Amy Quinton
California regulators are proposing new rules designed to protect schoolchildren from pesticides that blow in from nearby farms.
September 25, 2016
(AP) - Farmers in central California are drilling more and deeper wells than ever before to pump water for their fruit orchards and sprawling fields following government imposed limits on surface water.
September 22, 2016
#FindYourPark? Numerous forests, nature reserves and wilderness areas lost their green markings on Google's and Apple's maps, catching forest officials by surprise.
September 22, 2016
(AP) - U.S. Coast Guard officials say two oil sheens were discovered in the waters north of San Francisco.
September 22, 2016
In March, a group of UC Davis graduate students and their professors took a white-water rafting trip on the Colorado River where it flows through the Grand Canyon. CapRadio reporter Amy Quinton
September 21, 2016 | Amy Quinton
Each spring, a group of UC Davis student scientists and their professors take a whitewater rafting trip through the Grand Canyon to study a river that sustains 40 million people. Capital Public Radio’s Amy Quinton traveled with them.
September 19, 2016
(AP) - Toxic algae has shown up in more than 40 state lakes and waterways from Los Angeles to the northern reaches of California, the highest count in state history.
September 15, 2016 | Amy Quinton
California regulators have released a draft plan that would increase water for threatened fish and reduce water for farmers.
September 14, 2016 | Ben Adler
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a package of four bills that spend money raised through California’s “cap and trade” greenhouse gas reduction program. It's part of a new effort to fight climate change in California’s disadvantaged communities.
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September 14, 2016 | Amy Quinton
A previously unreleased economic analysis shows the federal government would need to pay for nearly a third of cost of a plan to build two tunnels to carry water across the state.
