Oil And Gas

논평

If lawmakers or lawsuits get oil companies to pay for climate change, consumers will pay, too.

Other efforts to reduce Californians' carbon footprint have cost consumers. A new auditor report notes a greenhouse gas reduction program has raised gasoline prices.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 5월 9, 2025

논평

Given its failures, can California manage a transition to a carbon-free future?

The mileposts on the road to a carbon-free California are beginning to appear, but the state is already falling behind. The just announced closure of another refinery isn't reassuring.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 4월 23, 2025

Data & Trackers

Special interests poured more than half a billion into California lobbying last year

Google, oil companies and utilities helped push California lobbying to a record $540 million in 2024, up 10% from the year before.

에 의해 제레미아 키멜만 • 4월 21, 2025

정치

How labor killed a bill to let California wildfire victims sue Big Oil for climate change

The Senate Judiciary Committee spiked a bill to let wildfire victims sue oil companies over climate change. Labor unions, not Big Oil, led the opposition.

에 의해 라이언 사발로우 • 4월 16, 2025

환경

Oil company fined record $18 million for defying state orders to stop work on pipeline

The pipeline caused a major oil spill a decade ago, fouling the ocean off Santa Barbara County. The new owners say they don’t need new permits for repairs. The fine is the Coastal Commission's largest.

에 의해 알레한드로 라조 • 4월 10, 2025

기후 변화

Trump targets California climate laws in new executive order

Trump ordered his attorney general to move against state climate programs that clash with his energy agenda. Legal experts say his claims about the laws being unconstitutional are an overreach.

에 의해 알레한드로 라조 • 4월 9, 2025

기후 변화

Who should pay billions for climate disasters? California and others target Big Oil — will that work?

California and other states and counties are using a legal strategy that took down Big Tobacco, hoping to make fossil fuel companies pay for damage they have long denied. But many obstacles remain.

에 의해 알레한드로 라조 • 3월 3, 2025

논평

Oil and gas companies should be held financially responsible for California climate disasters

Fossil fuel companies got California into this crisis, and now it's time lawmakers hold them accountable by passing crucial legislation this year.

By Nico Gardner • 2월 24, 2025

정치

Inland Empire lawmakers tackle gas prices, taxes, crime

New bills proposed by Inland Empire lawmakers would void new fuel standards, remove taxes from tips and bolster investigations of missing or killed Indigenous people.

에 의해 데보라 브레넌 • 1월 8, 2025

선거

Big spenders: These companies are giving the most to California legislative candidates

Independent expenditure committees have put nearly $100 million into legislative races, funding ads to support, and often attack, candidates. The outside, unlimited spending is increasing with each election.

에 의해 제레미아 키멜만 • 11월 4, 2024