U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

The University of California was awarded the 2021 Green Power Leadership Award on Tuesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at the Renewable Energy Markets Conference.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it will move to reinstate California’s Clean Air Act waiver, which allows the state to set its own vehicle emissions standards.

The city of Berkeley will receive at least $1 million to mitigate PCB contamination of water sources from a recent settlement with multinational agrochemical company Monsanto.

Berkeley community events took a back seat, but campus classes continued as residents faced unhealthy air from the Camp Fire that started Thursday in Butte County.

Throughout the last two decades, UC Berkeley Public Health faculty member Dr. Brenda Eskenazi and her team have worked diligently on the longest-running longitudinal birth cohort study of pesticides in the world.

The new appointees are Laphonza Butler, Michael Cohen, Cecilia V. Estolano and Richard H. Leib. All four appointees will need to be confirmed by the state Senate.

Forget the little stone bear in South Hall’s balcony railing. At UC Berkeley, there are two new subjects for a quick game of “I Spy” — a pair of rare peregrine falcons atop the Campanile.