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Centennial is a planned 12,000-acre community project of 19,333 homes in north Los Angeles.sIt is designed to fight global warming through energy-efficient buildings, extensive use of solar power, and water conservation. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Local groups in historically underserved San Diego communities are addressing issues of environmental justice, sustainable development, and partnerships between community organizations and government agencies. They are working together to create more parks and greenspace. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
DYK: One million public electric chargers are needed in California by the end of 2030, according to the state’s projections — almost 10 times more than the number currently available to drivers. To meet that target, 129,000 new stations must be built every year for the next seven years. Under the state’s electric car mandate, 68% of all new 2030 model cars sold in the state must be zero emissions, increasing to 100% for 2035, when 15 million electric cars are expected in California. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Construction has started on Beyer Park in San Ysidro, San Diego, the first new public park there in more than 25 years, with a goal of completing the eight-acre park by spring 2026. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
California Water Service plans infrastructure upgrades to the Salinas water system including a water storage tank, a new booster station,sa new water main, and two new groundwater wells. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
DYK: Some California farmers are starting to grow agave, a heat-tolerant crop which requires much less water than some other crops.sCompared to almonds which need about 48 inches of water per acre per year, agaves need 3 inches. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
California is suing ExxonMobil for allegedly deceiving the public about the plastic pollution crisis and that plastic recycling could solve the plastic waste and pollution situation. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Scientists say that capturing and storing water underground can sustain agriculture and keep up with climate change. A recent study found that groundwater aquifers have more storage potential than surface water reservoirs. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
The City of Porterville announced its 12-acre Santa Fe Sportsplex project which includes futsal and pickleball courts, a restroom, landscaping, and solar lighting. The project will also include a large picnic gazebo, and an amphitheater. The sportsplex will run along the Santa Fe Byway trail. The Santa Fe Byway will also include a new community recreation facility on Fourth Street revitalizing this area for the community. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
DYK: The California Climate Action Corps is a volunteer program that drives climate change action in frontline communities most impacted by climate change. Founded in 2020, the program has 400 members and has become a model for the American Climate Corps. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll
DYK: A California state study found that the amount of trashed plastic shopping bags per person increased from 8 pounds per year in 2004 to 11 pounds per year in 2021. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
More than 735,000 Californians are served by the nearly 400 water systems that fail to meet state requirements for safe and reliable drinking water. Latino farm communities struggling with poverty and pollution are most impacted. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
To protect marine ecosystems, scientists are collecting data to strengthen the case for ending gillnet fishing within a three-mile radius of The Channel Islands. This method is already banned off the coasts of Central and Northern California. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
California regulators approved 35 new oil and gas well drilling permits in 2024’s second quarter. California is currently home to 101,000 actively producing, idle, and newly permitted wells that have not yet become operational, according to the FracTracker Alliance. Of that number, 26,000 are located within the 3,200-foot buffer zone where millions of people live. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
The Chumash Marine Sanctuary is on track to become the nation’s first tribal-nominated marine sanctuary. The 4,543-square-mile reserve spans 116 miles from Pismo Beach to Gaviota. The sanctuary status would ban activities such as new oil and gas drilling, seabed disturbance, and certain vessel discharges within the area. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
DYK: Yorba Linda, a city in Orange County, isshome to the nation’s largest PFAS water treatment plant using resin, according to the city. PFAS are forever chemicals that can damage human health. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates there are thousands of water systems, serving around 100 million people, that have harmful levels of PFAS in their drinking water. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
The new Climate Action Counts campaign wants to encourage 1 million Californians to take action to fight global warming, such as composting, using public transit instead of driving, and planting trees or native plants. For more details, visit the Climate Action Counts website. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
DYK: Humboldt Redwoods State Park, located about 233 miles north of San Francisco, is considered America’s highest-rated state park, based on a recent study. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
California’s new law banning all plastic bags was signed into law last month and goes into effect in 2026. In response to the state’s initial plastic bag ban passed in 2014, plastic bag manufacturers produced a thicker plastic bag which failed to reduce plastic waste.sLearn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Scientists will turn farmland into tidal wetlands near the Pajaro River in Watsonville to reduce risk of flooding and sea level rise along California’s coast. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll
A new report found that California’s 30 x 30 Initiative to preserve 30% of its lands and coastal waters by 2030 is promising. The report also highlights the need to shift away from current fire suppression policies and adopt strategies reflective of new fire regimes. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
About 10 billion snow crabs (90% of the population) disappeared from the Bering Sea near Alaska in 2022, likely caused by warming waters affecting their food supply, and starving them to death. There is currently a ban on fishing for the crabs. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Fluoride in drinking water at twice the recommended limit is linked with lower IQ in children, according to a new federal report. Adding low levels of fluoride strengthens teeth and reduces cavities. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
About $352 million in state funds was approved to add six acres of green space and underground parking at Exposition Park in South Los Angeles by converting existing surface parking from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Figueroa Street, near BMO Stadium. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
DYK: Plastic packaging makes up more than 50% of what Californians dump in landfills and eventually breaks down into microplastics that pollute air, food, water, and harm human health and ecosystems.sLearn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
A rare, 12-foot oarfish, which had died before it was spotted by swimmers, was discovered in La Jolla Cove in early August. Since 1901, 20 oarfish have washed ashore in California. Also called the doomsday fish, oarfish typically dwell in deep ocean waters. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Millions of California residents living near oil and gas wells, many located in high fire-risk areas, face increased risks from explosions, pollution, and infrastructure damage. Exposure to oil wells disproportionately affects Black, Latino, and Native American communities. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
The U.S. Forest Service has denied permits to Blue Triton Brands, the company that bottles Arrowhead water, to extract water from San Bernardino Mountain springs. Environmentalists say the removal of that water is harming wildlife. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
DYK: The Great Park project in Irvine has completed more than 500 acres of park space with approximately 300 additional acres in progress. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
California is preparing for increased wildfires and associated public health concerns by protecting forests, increasing public awareness of proper land management strategies, and promoting efforts to better maintain air quality. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
DYK: With more the 500 species of trees, Los Angeles neighborhoods have one of the most diverse urban forests in the world. Trees are good for the environment, improve air quality, provide shade and attract many birds. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
California lawmakers are poised to approve two bills that would ban multi-use plastic bags. Stores would still be allowed to offer paper bags or bags made of at least 50% post-consumer recycled materials for a 10-cent fee. California already bans stores from offering single-use plastic bags. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
The City of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $20.8 million to make improvements at its Hyperion Water Reclamation Facility near El Segundo, where a sewage spill in 2021 resulted in 12.5 million gallons of untreated wastewater discharged into the Santa Monica Bay. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
A pilot program at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo helps local farms, ranches and forests secure funding to adopt climate-conscious techniques that reduce emissions, build climate and economic resiliency and increase overall food production. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Last month, hundreds of sea lions congregated on San Carlos Beach in Monterey, forcing officials to temporarily close the beach to people, who were still treated to a glorious sight. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
A state law passed in 2022 bans new oil well drilling within 3,200 feet of homes, schools, and hospitals, affecting more than 2.5 million people who are predominantly low income and nearly 70% from communities of color. Oil companies have until the end of this year to submit leak detection and response plans to state regulators, and until the end of 2026 to implement them. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Cases of Valley Fever are on the rise and could be linked to climate change, according to new research. In the past 20 years, the rate of infection has increased by 800%. Valley fever is a respiratory disease caused by a soil-dwelling fungus found in California and the southwestern U.S. When contaminated soil is disturbed, infectious spores are released into the air and can be inhaled by people, which can infect the lungs, leading to symptoms such as cough, fever, chest pain and fatigue. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Clearlake Oaks officials in Lake County recently asked for community input for its new park. The John T. Klaus Park, which will be located on a 584-acre property which was home to llamas, horses and ponies, was donated to Lake County. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
According to a new report from the California Department of Water Resources, the amount of water the state can provide is projected to drop over the next twenty years due to climate change. The report evaluates a water storage and delivery system that spans more than 700 miles and provides water to 27 million residents. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Researchers may have found an alternative to building sea walls to control sea level rise along the California coast by converting flood-prone farmland into tidal wetlands. During big storms and high tides, this allows ocean waters to move inland in an orderly way instead of threatening homes and other property. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
The United States Geological Survey has identified nearly 1,500 submarine landslide features off the coast of southern California which highlight significant risks to coastal infrastructure and populations. Underwater landslides can trigger tsunamis. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Dos Rios, California’s newest state park, is located about 8 miles west of Modesto in the San Joaquin Valley. The 1,600-acre property is the largest public-private floodplain restoration project in California, rebuildingsfor threatened and endangered wildlife at the junction of the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
DYK: San Francisco has some of the cleanest tap water in the state because of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, a snowmelt-fed body of water in Yosemite National Park, and a source of drinking water for San Francisco and several other Bay Area cities for nearly 100 years. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
A California law that bans drilling new oil wells within 3,200 feet of homes and buildings will take effect after the oil industry withdrew a referendum from the November ballot asking voters to overturn it. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Extreme heat waves caused by climate change are extending the duration and intensity of deadly California wildfires which continue to burn, damaging the health and property of residents. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Plastic production, use, and disposal all emit large amounts of greenhouse gasses. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara determined the extent to which plastic contributes to climate change, and what it would take to curb these emissions. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
In 2019, California established the Safe and Affordable Funding for Equity and Resilience (SAFER) program to provide sustainable safe drinking water to disadvantaged communities. Since then, the number of failing water systems in the state remains about the same—385 systems serving 913,000 residents. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Warming due to climate change is affecting iconic destinations around the country including Big Sur section of the Coast Highway’s that is experiencing increased rates of closures due to landslides, cliff collapses and rockfalls. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
The California State Railroad Museum and Foundation partnered with the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum on community engagement that will result in the installation of a mural depicting themes ofs“innovation and invention” inside the Railroad Museum this fall. The mural will be painted on September 14-15 on or near the sycamore-shaded lawn just across from the Railroad Museum. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
DYK: Heal the Bay issued its 34th annual Beach Report Card, issuing A-to-F grades to more than 700 beaches along the Pacific Coast based on levels of bacterial pollution in 2023-2024. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
More than 100,000 oil and gas wells across the western U.S. are in areas burned by wildfires in recent decades, according to a new study. Nearly 3 million people live within half a mile of a well. Most of the oil wells in California are currently in wildfire-threatened areas. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Plastic is everywhere and it is impacting human health. Its residues seep into food, water, lungs and skin, and from there to our guts, blood, brains, and placentas. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
The City of Los Angeles offers free and affordable aquatics activities for families and community members at public pools, lakes and beaches. One program is SwimLA which teaches youth ages 4 to 17 how to swim. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
According to a recent survey, Californians are most likely to name climate change, forest fires and wildfires, and water supply and drought as the most important environmental issues facing the state. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Climate action research grants will help tribal nations in California manage natural resources including fisheries management, pinyon pine forest preservation and climate resilience projects on Indian allotment lands. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
The California Energy Commission approved a plan to develop a floating offshore wind industry in ocean waters that would harness wind power from hundreds of giant turbines, each as tall as a 70-story building, floating in the ocean about 20 miles off Humboldt Bay and Morro Bay. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Los Angeles County will get its first new regional park in 30 years by converting a former landfill that closed in 2013. The 142-acre site located in Puente Hills near the 605 Freeway and Highway 60 will become Puente Hills Regional Park. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
DYK: Extreme heat kills more Americans each year than any other extreme weather events, including wildfires, droughts, and floods. Visit ready.ca.gov to prepare for emergencies and extreme weather. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
DYK: Avoid swimming in the ocean up to three days after it rains when water quality is usually worse due to pollutants in runoff. Check your local health agency's website for health advisories. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.
Plastic pellets (preproduction plastic) known as nurdles are polluting landscapes and beaches across the world. Environmentalists are seeking to hold manufacturers accountable and prohibit the release of these harmful pellets into U.S. waters. Learn more at #HealthyWorldForAll.