How to save AC Transit
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Buses are the linchpin to ensuring that we stop global warming, stop rising inequality and get people where they need to go safely.
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Air quality in Bay Area decreases amid wildfires
As wildfires continue to ravage California in what has become a record-breaking wildfire season, Bay Area air quality has decreased as a result.
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Environmental Protection Agency awards grant to UC Berkeley graduate students
A group of campus graduate students in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering received a $25,000 federal grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to develop technology that removes arsenic from California drinking water.
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Here’s where the 2020 Republican presidential candidates stand on climate change
Staying politically informed is necessary, regardless of which party you adhere to. Here’s where the two 2020 Republican presidential candidates stand on climate change.
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UC Berkeley study finds association between asthma, ozone exposure
UC Berkeley researchers participated in a recent study that found there is an association between ozone — an air pollutant that forms when pollution from cars, power plants and refineries react to sunlight — exposure and increased severity of asthma symptoms.
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Power hungry
What on Earth
Energy companies should not have a seat at the environmental table. For them, profit comes before the environment’s well-being.
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UC system suspends glyphosate herbicide use in light of student campaign
UC Berkeley alumna and former Cal beach volleyball player Mackenzie Feldman and her former teammate and campus junior Bridget Gustafson spoke out against the use of glyphosate-based herbicides on campus in fall 2017. Almost two years later, on May 14, UC President Janet Napolitano issued a temporary suspension, with several exceptions, on the use of glyphosate-based herbicides at all UC locations because of health concerns and ecological hazards.
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California must lead transition to hydrogen-based energy
Earth’s alarm bells are ringing! Greenhouse gases are increasing. Glaciers are disappearing. And the Arctic regions are melting away. Much of the world is suffering from foul air, prolonged droughts, severe hurricanes and oil spills. Meanwhile, the world’s leading climate scientists have issued a report through the United Nations’ Intergovernmental
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Environmental Protection Agency awards university for commitment to renewable energy
For the second year in a row, the United States Environmental Protection Agency awarded the university a Green Power Leadership Award to recognize its commitment to renewable energy.
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Students must mobilize to support equitable clean energy
UC Berkeley students can play a most immediate and hugely impactful nationwide role by reaching out to fellow students, parents and friends both across California and across the country to highlight how doubling down on equitable clean energy projects offers a rare and genuine win-win at a time when the country is more divided than ever.
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