When California finalized the nation's first sweeping rooftop solar mandate for new construction last year, advocates pictured a utopia of all homes being built with solar panels, turning the clunky panels into the new norm to help the state achieve carbon neutrality. But those images of self-sustaining abodes may have...
A Look at Fresno EOC as It Searches for New CEO
This week, the board that oversees the Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission is scheduled to select a new CEO. Earlier this year, Fresno EOC's CEO Brian Angus announced he would step away from the post he had held since 2010. Angus has more than 40 years' experience heading groups like EOC. Listen...
California First State to Mandate Solar Power for New Homes
LOS ANGELES — California became the first state in the nation to require homes built in 2020 and later be solar powered, following a vote by the Building Standards Commission. The unanimous action on Wednesday finalizes a previous vote by the Energy Commission and fulfills a decade-old goal to make...
China is Already Powerful. What Happens When a Strongman Rules?
This week, China's national legislative body will likely vote to allow President Xi Jinping to remain in power - possibly for life. A change to the country's constitution would remove presidential term limits that have been in place there since 1982. Those limits have prevented the consolidation of absolute power into...