Jessica Wolfrom
SF Examiner
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Bayview residents want more housing. Just not on this hillside.
Why the fight over the future of a tiny hillside in the Bayview is about so much more than housing → Read More
Why California's clean energy path depends on floating farms
Wind power from the ocean will be a key part of California’s energy future → Read More
Will San Francisco embrace a ‘green bank’?
To realize its ambitious climate plans, SF’s government is considering a form of public banking that some advocates argue could hasten The City’s clean energy transition → Read More
Can San Francisco save the bay?
City leaders instruct the SFPUC to reduce harmful nutrient releases into the bay and scale back its reliance on the Tuolumne River → Read More
Gavin Newsom wants U.S. probe into California utility prices
With utility bills up 63%, the governor indicates anticompetitive behavior or market manipulation may be to blame for skyrocketing prices across the West → Read More
Sierra snowpack 205% of its historical average
California’s snowpack, which accounts for about a third of the state’s water supply, is its biggest in three decades – but conservation may still be needed → Read More
This is what flying into an atmospheric river is like
Hurricane Hunter Douglas Gautrau has been chasing storms since fifth grade. Now he's a member of the Air Force’s 403rd Wing → Read More
San Francisco sees wettest 22-day period in 160 years
Rainfall totals in San Francisco come close to the Great Flood of 1862. → Read More
How Bay Area can rethink rainwater after the bomb cyclone
Instead of flushing stormwater, could San Francisco become a sponge, redirecting water to stem drought impacts? → Read More
More storms are brewing in the Bay Area. Here’s what we’re watching for
Threats from flash flooding, mud and rockslides, and damaging wind are expected over the weekend. → Read More
San Francisco’s tale of two malls: Stonestown and Westfield
The Westfield San Francisco Centre is struggling and Stonestown is set for a major redevelopment → Read More
California’s biodiversity is under threat. Can its leadership make a difference at UN gathering?
Though California won’t play a part in the COP15 negotiations, it’s the only U.S. state in attendance → Read More
The Salton Sea is on track to become ‘Lithium Valley’
Plans move ahead to mine a California landlocked lake, which is believed to have the highest concentration of lithium in the world → Read More
Is California doing enough to address ‘the climate change of chemicals’?
PFAs are toxic to humans and the environment, and no one has any idea where or how many are in use today → Read More
Breeding coral to survive climate change
Coral reefs support 25% of life in the Earth’s oceans. But due to global warming, reefs are suffering, which is where the Coral Spawning Lab at the California Academy of Sciences comes in → Read More
Is climate change to blame for the turkey shortage of 2022?
Rampant bird flu increased the price of this year’s Thanksgiving fowl. → Read More
San Francisco’s Climate Action Plan will cost billions. Here’s how we'll pay for it
A report from UC Berkeley Law School estimates $22 billion is needed to reach net zero by 2040 → Read More
Who will pay for climate change impacts, now that Californians have rejected Prop. 30?
The measure would have taxed the wealthy to fund electric vehicle rebates and fight wildfires in California, where global warming effects have come faster and with greater intensity than previously expected → Read More
CA experiencing accelerating impact of climate change
The impacts of a warming world are hitting California faster and with greater intensity than previously expected. Some have become irreversible. → Read More
A new climate law that would pay for EVs is electrifying the midterms
Most Californians agree that the future of transportation is electric. But how the state transitions away from the gas-guzzling internal combustion engine has become a political lightning rod this election cycle. → Read More