Autumn Thoyre, a co-director of San Francisco State’s Climate HQ, which advocated for the university to incorporate climate change and climate justice themes into its existing sustainability requirement, said the update is a response to student demand as well as engagement with faculty. The hope is that it will appeal to prospective students, too.

Air quality in San Francisco is improving, according to an Axios analysis of year-over-year EPA data. Why it matters: Long-term exposure to poor air quality is harmful to your health. A growing body of research shows that polluted air is connected to poor reproductive outcomes,

San Francisco State University is swapping in an Environmental Sustainability and Climate Action graduation requirement to take the place of the existing Environmental Sustainability requirement. “We are responding to the understanding that all jobs in the future will be climate jobs in some way,

Starting this fall, every new student at San Francisco State University will be required to take a course on climate justice in order to graduate, the university announced Tuesday. The Environmental Sustainability and Climate Action (ESCA) graduation requirement makes SFSU the first major public university to require a course explicitly incorporating climate justice,

San Francisco State University will be the first major public university in the United States to require students to complete coursework on climate justice, not just climate change, officials announced Tuesday.

Energy demands from big tech, including for AI, has elected officials giving an old power source a second look.

I’ll be the first to acknowledge the counter arguments. There are areas where the Trump presidency is bound to slow things down. Companies will be less likely to invest in nascent sectors that rely on supportive government dollars or policy, meaning that technologies like hydrogen and biofuels may take a hit.

The 67-year-old mother of three adult daughters, who grew up in Terre Haute, serves as mayor of Corte Madera, California. That city of 9,947 residents sits just north of the Golde

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The City is slated to receive steady but mostly light rain through the weekend before a longer and more intense deluge hits early next week.

You soon could be paying even more for gas at the pump. That’s because of a cynical attempt to use the wildfires tragedy to attack California’s oil companies. Sponsored by state Sen. Scott Weiner,