The next flood, fire or heatwave won’t wait for an Environmental Impact Report. California’s laws shouldn’t either.” ...

Climate action has been slow, which means that the world is in for considerable warming, more extreme weather and more harm ...

Cleaner fuels in heavy-duty transportation, like big rigs, and its deployment of battery storage and solar energy drove this climate progress.

California air regulators released draft regulations for the state’s nation-leading climate disclosure laws Tuesday that would require companies to start reporting their carbon emissions in August and ...

On December 9, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released long-awaited draft proposed implementing regulations for ...

While the Palisades and Eaton fires are long since out, Los Angeles is still burning — with frustration and anger over the ...

As usual, California was ahead of the game. It’s been two decades since lawmakers passed the first law to begin requiring electric utilities to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. Nearly as ...

But even with all these tools, the state lacks a centralized database where researchers, policymakers, emergency responders and members of the public can easily tap into this bounty of information. A ...

In response, consumers are being forced into the California FAIR Plan, a state-funded plan set up as a temporary insurer of ...

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