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This week's post features items from Responsible Investor, The Jewish News of Northern California, The Times of India, USA Today, Sacramento Bee, The Mercury News, Governor of California - CA.gov, LA Times, ESG Today, Infrastructure Investor, Fidelity Investments, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas - Assembly Democratic Caucus, UCS blog - Union of Concerned Scientists, Maven's Notebook, Yahoo Finance, CBS News, Energies Media, Valley News, fundsforNGOs, Microgrid Knowledge, Fortune Business Insights, IEEE Spectrum, SFGATE, Argus Media, BioEnergy Times...we scour the web so you don't have to!

California Socially Responsible Investing   

San Diego city pension fund reports ESG 'strides' made by managers - Responsible Investor
Responsible Investor
The San Diego City Employees' Retirement System (SDCERS), a $13 billion fund in the US state of California, has found broad improvements in an ...

Sha'ar Zahav shifts part of endowment to social good - The Jewish News of Northern California
The Jewish News of Northern California
San Francisco's pioneering LGBTQ synagogue, founded in 1977, has shifted a portion of its multimillion-dollar endowment toward impact investing, a ...  

California Geoengineering

In 2022, a California startup launched sulphur dioxide balloons over Mexico and began ...
The Times of India
California startup's balloon launches spark Mexico's move to block solar geoengineering experiments. The balloons were designed to burst at high ...
   
Could we stop El Niño by brightening clouds? New study explores how - USA Today
USA Today
... California-San Diego. “One of the biggest social concerns around geoengineering is the fact that if we use it to reduce long-term climate risks ...     

California Climate Change and Satellites 

Gov. Gavin Newsom says climate change poses 'financial risks' to California, US
Sacramento Bee
... satellite network. July 8, 2026 6:01 PM. Politics & Government. CA environmental leaders urge at-home action as Newsom attends global climate summit.

El Niño is here: Five major myths about what it is and what it could mean for California's weather
The Mercury News
... climate scientist with the University of California Agriculture and ... climate variation, unlike a human-caused one like climate change. It ...

Governor Newsom highlights robust investments in fire prevention and cutting-edge ...
Governor of California - CA.gov
What you need to know: California is growing its wildfire-fighting arsenal, including satellites ... climate change and the largest wildfires California ...  

California Wildfires Climate Change     

Earth, Wind, And Fire (Humans, too): The Multiple Factors Impacting California's Wildfires
LA Times
Did climate change cause the LA fires? UCLA's Alex Hall joins Kate Cagle to reveal the hidden climate risks and how to prepare for the next ...

Extreme heat raises wildfire fears; monsoonal moisture will create sticky conditions
LA Times
Although it's unclear to what extent climate change is influencing this particular heat wave, scientists have found that global warming from the ...

California Sustainability Investing     

CalSTRS Invests $2 Billion to Anchor Nuveen Sustainable Infrastructure Fund - ESG Today
ESG Today
Global investment manager Nuveen announced a strategic partnership with the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), under which ...

CalSTRS and Nuveen strike $2bn strategic partnership for debt fund and 'adjacent opportunities'
Infrastructure Investor
The emphasis in all cases will be sustainable infrastructure, part of CalSTRS' sustainable impact and stewardship strategy. These investments will ...

Announcing the First Resilience District Incubator Pilot Communities - Fidelity Investments
Fidelity Investments
California Forward (CA FWD) is a multi-partisan, non-profit organization building a New California Economy that is sustainable, resilient, and ...

California Leadership Climate Change     

Here's How the New California State Budget Improves Central Coast Affordability and Quality of Life
Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas - Assembly Democratic Caucus
SACRAMENTO — Every day, families across the Central Coast are doing the math — weighing grocery bills or gas prices, rent versus wages, ...

Why the EPA Is Attacking California's Clean Car Standards (Again) - UCS blog
UCS blog - Union of Concerned Scientists
California has been fighting vehicle pollution for 60 years · What is a Clean Air Act waiver? · How EPA and Congress attacked California's clean car ...

COMMENTARY: AB 2026 is an duplicitous response to climate change - Maven's Notebook
Maven's Notebook
We need leadership that prioritizes equity and environmental protection in our water and climate policies. ... California corporation that ...

California Energy Storage     

California's first sodium-ion gigafactory sold out fast, with enough power for 4 million homes
Yahoo Finance
Photo Credit: Peak Energy. A forthcoming California battery plant is offering an early clue about the next phase of energy storage. The facility's ...

Chino residents voice displeasure over proposed battery storage facility - CBS Los Angeles
CBS News
Proponents say that the project will help California reach its clean energy goals, but many residents say that the massive facility could cause safety ...

California is storing electricity inside a tower of red-hot bricks heated to 1,800°F, where the ...
Energies Media
Despite major progress in renewable infrastructure expansion, some industries remain hard-to-abate. Innovative storage approaches, such as thermal ...

California Green Bond Funds     

CAL FIRE Announces $10 Million In Available Funding for Tribal-Led Wildfire Resilience ...
Valley News
These grants will support California Native American tribes in managing ... Bond), Tribal Wildfire Resilience Grants fund projects in ...

Judge denies environmentalists pause on fed's Shasta plan; What a strong El Niño means ...
Maven's Notebook
Great Redwood Trail Agency deploys $12.4M in climate bond funds for first segments. “California's Great Redwood Trail took a major step forward ...

California Data Driven Decision Making     

Donte Andrew Hayes - LA Executive Awards - Los Angeles Times
LA Times
Donte Andrew Hayes is the chief financial officer at Expert MRI PC. Leveraging this record of success, he directs the long-term financial health, ...

Call for Projects: Framework to Achieve California DPR Alternative Treatment Equivalency (US)
fundsforNGOs
Support risk-based decision-making. Regulatory Readiness ... The project will identify data requirements, evaluation methods, and decision-making ...

California agencies advance strategy for emerging contaminants and tire-derived 6PPD-quinone
Maven's Notebook
It supports consistent, science-based decisions by improving data quality, data sharing, and coordination across programs and agencies, with a ...

California Microgrids     

Wildan Designing $31M Biogas Microgrid to Power Encina Wastewater Plant
Microgrid Knowledge
A Southern California wastewater utility is hiring design and engineering firm Willdan Group to build a renewable cogeneration microgrid project ...

Resilient Power Infrastructure Market Size, Share | Growth [2034] - Fortune Business Insights
Fortune Business Insights
... California's Microgrid Incentive Program to support the development of nine new community-driven microgrids across Northern and Central California.

Puerto Rico's Hydrogen Microgrid Extends Outage Survival - IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum
The architecture builds on existing hydrogen-based microgrids, like a 293-megawatt-hour (MWh) one installed in California's rural wine country in ...

California Carbon Capture Utilization Storage     

It worked in Norway. Will it work in a CA town with 8K old oil wells? - SFGATE
SFGATE
We use technologies that provide information about your interactions with ... California's first carbon capture and storage facility became ...

Court challenge hangs over CARB market updates | Latest Market News - Argus Media
Argus Media
... carbon capture and storage projects tied to California's 2045 net-zero goal. The Western Climate Initiative, a joint carbon market between California ...

Louisiana set to overtake California in renewable diesel, SAF capacity as carbon capture ...
BioEnergy Times
... carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). In December 2023, Louisiana received Class VI primacy, allowing the Louisiana Department of Energy ...

California Community Health Risk Assessment     

Unhoused Californians Face 38% Higher ER Risk for Heat Illness, Yet Are Nearly Invisible ...
Public Health Institute
New analysis of heat-related health surveillance data in California collected from 2005-2024 found that the people bearing the greatest burden of heat ...

As California heads into a hotter, drier season, Governor Newsom launches One Less Spark ...
Governor of California - CA.gov
President Trump has made dramatic cuts to wildfire readiness across the United States, and rural, high-fire-risk communities are bearing the brunt. 

California Community Health Risks From Climate Change     

Salton Sea reignites debate over clean energy and community health in court hearing
Imperial Valley Press
The California Fourth District Court of Appeal heard oral arguments in a lawsuit brought by environmental justice groups Comite Civico del Valle (CCV) ...

Wildfire smoke is driving terrible air quality in major cities, but relief is coming | CNN
CNN
How you can minimize the health risks of wildfire smoke. 9 min read ... Climate change was found to be responsible for the majority of the ...  

California Low Carbon Funds     

CalSTRS commits $2B to Nuveen green infrastructure funds - Axios
Axios
The California teachers' pension system, one of the country's largest, is allocating $2 billion to asset manager Nuveen to finance low-carbon ...

Lodge That Gives receives funding aimed at reducing emissions and providing comfort
CityNews Halifax
Thanks to a $346,920 donation for the society from the Sustainable Communities Challenge Fund, a new low-carbon, sustainable and efficient cooling and ...

California Renewable Energy Investments     

6 Records Solar and Storage Have Crushed in the First Half of 2026
Solar Energy Industries Association
Today, it is supplying almost 13% of America's electricity needs. Line chart comparing monthly electricity generation from solar and from coal. 3.

Governor Newsom secures 13 automakers to offer instant rebates for first-time ZEV buyers
California Governor's Office - CA.gov
The instant rebate program delivers on the Governor's promise to create a state ZEV incentive program after Trump and congressional Republicans ...

Avantus and Clean Power Alliance Sign Agreement to Deliver Clean, Reliable Energy to ...
Morningstar
The project will deliver a combined 200 megawatts (MWac) of solar generation and 200 MW/800 MWh of battery energy storage to the California grid, ...    

California Methane Emissions     

Dairy Farms' Expansion Plan Worries California Families Who Once Had a 'Little Piece of Heaven'
Stocktonia News
The battle in the Central Valley is just one of many happening against dairy farms and new manure digester projects in the state.

California power emissions remain stable in May YoY, natural gas continues to fall
Carbon Pulse
California's power emissions stayed stable at nearly 2 million tonnes of CO2 year-on-year (YoY) in May, according to the latest release of the GHG ...

Trash Inspectors Hired To Sort Through Garbage as California Town Cracks Down on Waste
Yahoo
... methane made up 12 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions as of 2022. Much of this emission comes from human-related sources, which include ...   

California Impact Investing     

ESG adoption among RIAs stuck in single digits as family offices embrace impact investing
Investment News
New York, home to the country's second-largest RIA population, registered 9.6%, while California, the largest state by firm count with 1,780 RIAs, ...

Investing Millions in Healthy, Climate-friendly School Foods in California
Friends of the Earth
... impact of school meals.” In January 2026, Congress passed a bill that allows school districts to offer nondairy milk options on the lunch line and ...

Sha'ar Zahav shifts part of endowment to social good - J Weekly
J Weekly
The Jewish News of Northern California. Menu. Donate · J. The Jewish ... For Michael Lustig, a New York-based evangelist for impact investing in ...