Who Is Accountable for Oil Waste in California Drinking Water?
An examination of recordkeeping, oversight, and safeguards surrounding oil and gas wastewater injection into protected aquifers.
Read the analysis →Independent reporting, context, and progressive analysis for people following California’s public decisions.
Archive collection
Reporting and commentary from the California Rise Report archive, revisited with clear summaries and updated publication labels.
An examination of recordkeeping, oversight, and safeguards surrounding oil and gas wastewater injection into protected aquifers.
Read the analysis →A reflection on how public protest can connect with concrete demands, broad coalitions, sustained participation, and government action.
Read the commentary →Part two of an archive investigation considers demographic patterns in officer-involved deaths and how they compare across California.
Read part two →A historical perspective on why civil rights, labor dignity, economic inclusion, and full citizenship cannot be separated.
Read the perspective →An archive argument about cost, climate, mobility, regional access, and infrastructure designed to serve multiple generations.
Read the transport brief →A review of renter protections, housing access, legislative stalemates, and policy proposals whose underlying questions remain relevant.
Read the archive review →Part one examines why smaller and more remote communities can complicate assumptions based only on California’s largest cities.
Read part one →A patient-centered commentary on chronic pain and the consequences that broad restrictions can have for people seeking appropriate care.
Read the health commentary →An archive dispatch reviewing criticism of major water infrastructure plans and competing ideas for statewide water resilience.
Read the water commentary →An archive review of provider networks, coverage, oversight, and the practical work required to turn health policy into access to care.
Read the health-law review →What is included
Each listing identifies the central argument and public-policy question.
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Topic and writer directories place individual pieces in a wider record.
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