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KPBS Midday EditionA new report from the Pacific Institute suggests Californians have learned to conserve so well that water forecasters have radically overestimated the amount of water we will need in the future. -
Scripps Institution of Oceanogrpahy reasearchers are among the team that helped create a new historical record of shrinking ice sheets near the south pole. -
San Diego environment organizations, social justice groups and political officials are getting together around a Green New Deal to improve the local environment. -
Giant Kelp have survived off the Southern California coast for hundreds of years, but the iconic plant may be in trouble as the ocean warms. -
Sewage-contaminated runoff in the Tijuana River has been entering the Tijuana Estuary, and observations indicate contamination of ocean water now extends from the International Border north to the Imperial Beach shoreline. -
KPBS Midday EditionA San Diego city audit has revealed that residents and businesses have been improperly charged tens of millions of dollars in fees to cover industrial wastewater services. -
Mexican officials say relief may be coming in the battle to stop polluted cross-border flows. -
Lawsuits asking the federal government to clean up cross border pollution are being set aside, for the moment. -
KPBS Midday EditionAn independent audit of Baja California’s water agency has found that many international companies with operations in Baja California have paid for only a fraction of the water they have used for years and have dumped waste without approval into the overburdened Tijuana sewage system, while water agency officials looked the other way. -
KPBS Midday EditionIn 2020, "Plastic-Free July" comes at a time of setback for those fighting plastic pollution, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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