A Bay Nature reporting project exploring the impacts on San Francisco Bay Area nature from the massive amount of funding in the Inflation Reduction Act (2022) and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (2021).
A federal judge turned a routine lawsuit to protect birds at Point Reyes into his platform for attacking the National Environmental Policy Act’s foundational guidelines.
EPA says it’s proud of axing grants to save money.
Some organizations are doubling down on DEI. Others are taking down words that could get them in trouble.
Grant funding from BIL and IRA, Biden’s signature climate laws, has been frozen. “We’re in a biodiversity meltdown,” says butterfly scientist Stu Weiss. “We don’t have time for these kinds...
Restoration dollars from the IRA mark the latest chapter in stewardship across the Cosumnes River watershed, where sandhill cranes flock.
Can we keep Lake Tahoe's aquatic invaders at bay?
Even key critics of Aramis, in the North Livermore Valley, say its habitat conservation plan is not terrible.
They're counting their blessings—like Prop. 4's $10 billion for climate adaptation in California, and money that can’t be unspent.
David Hayes shaped BIL and IRA, Biden-era funding bills whose big money for nature we’ve been tracking across the greater Bay Area. Here, he takes stock of how they’ve fared—and...
Scientists want to reintroduce these many-armed roombas as a great help for kelp.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
