Environment

Two years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a strategy to save declining salmon — spotlighting a historic partnership with the Winnemem Wintu Tribe to reintroduce endangered winter-run Chinook to the vital, cold waters upstream of Lake Shasta in far northern California.  Now, tribe officials say the state is ending its support, potentially causing salmon restoration […]

With reservoirs brimming — but snowpack abysmal — experts warn of a potentially early fire season.

Just south of downtown Los Angeles, the Exide battery recycling facility ​​spent decades leaking lead and arsenic into the soil — sickening children, causing cancer, and creating a nearly billion-dollar liability for the state of California.  A flurry of last-minute reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act at the end of last year’s legislative session […]

Students in this San Diego beach town face sewage pollution that causes headaches, asthma, rashes and brain fog, as schools contend with sewage pollution from the Tijuana River.

DTSC added documents to a rulemaking record but buried them from easy public access.

California is suing the Trump administration over an order to restart a long-shuttered offshore oil operation.

A record-baking heat wave is scalding California, with major consequences for the state’s most important reservoir: its snowpack.  Providing about a third of the state’s water supply, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is a vital source of spring and summer runoff that refills reservoirs when the state needs the water most.  But a warm wet storm […]

As heat becomes a year-round reality, California is often still responding like it’s an emergency.

The Trump administration Tuesday announced $40 million for “planning and preconstruction activities associated with raising Shasta Dam.”

The rules would hold pollution magnets like warehouses, ports and railyards accountable for the trucks and ships they attract.