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On bill to blunt Trump’s environment aims, it’s farms or endangered species — and Newsom must choose

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has been part of negotiations over air, water and endangered-species protections. The governor decries Trump's environmental rollbacks but also seeks harmony with farmers opposing the bill.

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• 9월 11, 2019

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Environmental protection

Re: “In going after Trump, California is going too far with environmental legislation,” Sept. 9, 2019: Assemblyman Adam Gray insists on clinging to the past, a past of broken water policy, where Central Valley power brokers dictate policy for the rest of the state. What Senate Bill 1 aims to do is to provide a […]

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게스트 코멘터리

• 9월 10, 2019

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What to watch as CA lawmakers wrap up, from gators to the gig economy

As California lawmakers start the last week of the legislative session, this year's to-do list includes some big issues — the future of work, for instance, and vaccine exemptions — and some arcane but high-stakes lobbying fights.

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Dan Morain

• 9월 9, 2019

The Camp Fire smoke covers the Butte Creek on Honey Run Road in Paradise, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. Photo by Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group

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PG&E offers $18 billion for wildfires — less than half would go directly to victims

PG&E is back where it started — searching for a way forward amid tens of billions of dollars in damages from past wildfires. And its narrowing options are driving the state’s largest utility into the arms of Wall Street investors, including a group led by major Republican donor Paul Singer, the billionaire known for his combative style and portfolio of distressed properties.

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Judy Lin

• 9월 6, 2019

The Trump administration calls the agreement with carmakers "inconsistent with federal law.” Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Trump’s dual threat to California’s car deal

Gov. Gavin Newsom vows that California "will keep fighting" for cleaner cars, despite the Trump administration's efforts to derail the state's pact to cut greenhouses gases from tailpipes.

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레이첼 베커

• 9월 6, 2019

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California’s fight over tailpipe emissions, explained

President Trump has threatened to roll back Obama-era standards, jeopardizing a decades-old exemption that lets California make its own clean air rules.

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레이첼 베커

• 8월 31, 2019

Burned homes, trees and vehicles in the Northern California city of Santa Rosa, after a devastating 2017 wildfire. Photo by Anne Belden, istockphotos.com

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What to know as California’s peak fire months loom

The state's forests are clogged with 147 million dead trees — wildfire fuel — and late-winter rains nourished grasses and other highly combustible plants.

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줄리 카트

• 8월 29, 2019

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How much could PG&E’s rates rise? What you need to know

In the past decade, PG&E rates have gone up 31% — faster than inflation — though not as much as San Diego Gas & Electric's.

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Judy Lin

• 8월 22, 2019

A convertible is driven along the coastline in Big Sur, California. Photo by Pgiam/istockphotos.com

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Can California put cars in the rear-view mirror?

It's as hard for drivers to contemplate life without cars as it is for officials to discuss it.

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줄리 카트

• 8월 15, 2019

California recycling crisis: Accumulated plastic bottles at the greenwaste recycling facility on July 29, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters

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A $25 million payment wasn’t enough to keep recycler open

The largest recycler operating from supermarket parking lots in California, rePlanet, closed operations this month, despite receiving $25 million in payments from the state in 2018.

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Dan Morain

• 8월 12, 2019