Climate Change

The study is the first to investigate what California’s constellation of oil and gas development means for babies born nearby.

State officials said that California isn’t backing away from prioritizing environmental protections, but that the harsh realities of the economic meltdown require difficult compromises.

Pushing homeowners away from the water is proving difficult. They want to protect property values; the state wants to save the beaches.

California is prepared to take the Trump administration to court – again –after the federal government on Tuesday rolled back its major rule reducing greenhouse gases and smog-forming emissions from cars. The Trump administration issued a final version of its rule, which loosens Obama-era requirements that improve the fuel economy of new cars and light-duty […]

Prior bills were a shot of urban growth hormone to force cities to grow vertically; this one is a density vitamin cities could choose to take or not.

Uber and Lyft are bigger climate polluters than they should be. California aims to fix that.

Store water for a drought, or prepare for floods? How atmospheric river research helps California decide.

The Legislature is considering giving everyone age 18 and under free rides on public transportation. But will that really create a generation of lifetime riders?

California regulators eased off the state's groundbreaking new law requiring solar rooftops on most new homes, agreeing to allow developers to use a Sacramento utility's off-site solar installations instead. 

Ting may sometimes be the California Assembly’s Don Quixote, chasing seemingly impossible dreams. But he says it's a win to just get people talking.