Salud Ortiz Carbajal: “I hope that under new leadership, we see that change.”

Yesterday in Carpinteria, I witnessed ICE agents using unnecessarily aggressive and militarized tactics against local farm workers and peaceful protesters. It was appalling. This is not how we keep our communities safe. As a Member of…

The San Pedro Basin has long been the site of an underwater toxic waste dump. This toxic waste – which includes the pesticide DDT – has been very harmful to the health of local marine life and poses a risk to people who live and work near…

As states like California face increasingly frequent and intense wildfires, tools like FireGuard help us meet that threat. Using space-based commercial data will only make this program more effective.

Many medium-sized cities on the Central Coast and across the country have strong transit systems that people depend on to get to work, school, and to stay connected with their communities. But the current federal transit funding framework…