Capital & Main

04/08/2025

Recently retired Colorado scientist Lisa McKenzie chased the link between fracking and adverse birth outcomes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

04/08/2025

“There is starting to be enough evidence to say that living near oil and gas wells, in these areas with a lot of oil and gas development, may have health consequences.”

Recently retired Colorado scientist Lisa McKenzie chased the link between fracking and adverse birth outcomes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

01/08/2025

“Many will just go uninsured, forcing them to the ER for basic care, or dying younger from preventable illnesses."

01/08/2025

“Many will just go uninsured, forcing them to the ER for basic care, or dying younger from preventable illnesses. This budget deal breaks the promises made by our state leaders.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to changes to Medi-Cal that will make treatment for migrants more expensive — and less common, raising a question: Why?

31/07/2025

Trump's denies Medicaid reimbursement for health services rendered by sufficiently large nonprofit clinics that provide abortion services, a description apparently written specifically to proscribe Planned Parenthood.

31/07/2025

COLUMN: California has joined 22 other states in suing the Trump administration for what state Attorney General Rob Bonta calls "punishment for Planned Parenthood’s constitutionally protected advocacy for abortion."

Attorney General Rob Bonta has joined a national lawsuit to halt Republicans’ war on Californians.

30/07/2025

While most hospices have become for-profit businesses in the last decade, private equity investment in end-of-life care has boomed over the same period, sometimes with disastrous results.

30/07/2025

Private equity investment in end-of-life care has boomed over the last decade. After 29 months without a contract, a new labor union is resisting the "financialization" of hospice care.

After 29 months without a contract, a new hospice union resists the financialization of end-of-life care.

30/07/2025

Capital & Main: Do you think that the LAPD has been assisting in [federal immigration] operations?

Councilmember Ysabel Jurado: "It’s a complicated issue."

Over the past few months, Los Angeles Police Department officers have arrested hundreds and injured dozens of people protesting or documenting federal immigr...

29/07/2025

Western Environmental Law Center attorney discusses New Mexico, the president’s energy emergency and how we can emerge from the “ruins.”

29/07/2025

Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill” is a gift basket of conservative dreams bundled in one legislative act. But how will the bill affect oil and gas development, particularly in New Mexico?

Our interview with Kyle Tisdel, senior attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center:

Western Environmental Law Center attorney discusses New Mexico, the president's energy emergency and how we can emerge from the “ruins.”

28/07/2025

Since it first began its work in 1998, the CSB has completed investigations of 22 incidents in Texas and eight incidents in Louisiana, the second-most investigated state. There are two ongoing investigations in Texas and Louisiana as well.