"The idea is to save property, save lives, save Sacramento," said Jeff Harris, city council member. The project requires removing trees and brush in a bend in the river, replacing the 5,000-foot ...

In a recent poll regarding climate change, nearly 90 percent of 1,000 residents in the greater Sacramento region indicated that air pollution is among their top environmental concern.

Signage in front of Sacramento City Hall could become obsolete if Mayor Kevin McCarty’s proposal to prohibit the homeless ...

Sacramento joins lawsuit over the federal cut of Environmental Justice Grants, threatening their urban tree canopy expansion plans.

Sacramento County staff will present the plan to the county’s Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force on Aug. 8. A presentation to the Sacramento Environmental Commission follows on Aug. 19.

UPDATED: August 12, 2016 at 12:11 PM PDT Environmental groups were excited last week when a key bill they worked on all year came up for a final vote in Sacramento.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Northern California water officials in a Thursday meeting called on residents and local water providers to consider cutting back their use as environmental concerns arise.

Oscar Balaguer, a member of the environmental group 350 Sacramento, says that this final draft was supposed to answer that question. He points to language in the 2020 declaration that said the ...

On Sacramento County’s goal for carbon neutrality by 2030 Pat Hume: I think when we set hard deadlines, it puts the aggressiveness of the situation in front of us, which is good as a call to action.

A group of faculty members at California State University, Sacramento, took on the task of creating a curriculum to study environmental problems. Professors in Bioscience, Engineering, Physics, ...