Climate Change

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

The Trump administration ordered the restart of a Santa Barbara oil pipeline shut since the 2015 Refugio spill, invoking emergency powers under the Defense Production Act.

California built a first-in-the-nation system to police refinery profits during price spikes. Regulators delayed it for five years.

A Santa Barbara judge tentatively ruled that the Trump administration's intervention wasn't enough to let Sable Offshore restart a pipeline shut after a 2015 oil spill.

California schools faced repeated planned power outages in 2024-2025 as Edison cut electricity to prevent wildfires, forcing closures and costly backup power solutions.

Trump rescinded the legal foundation for U.S. climate policy. California is preparing to sue — and may try to write its own rules.

California is updating CalEnviroScreen, the influential pollution tracker that helps determine which communities get environmental grants. Advocates say the state should improve the tool and use it more frequently to cut pollution.