Environment

California is seeing the highest level of West Nile Virus activity in five years. Next year could be worse.

A Kern County judge ruled that approval of California’s first operating carbon capture and storage project — a technology the state is counting on to meet its climate goals — violated state environmental law and must be set aside. Judge Marcos Camacho found that environmental review of California Resources Corp.’s TerraVault project, which Kern County […]

Up to half of Bay Area households can skip electric water heaters under an updated rule by air regulators. Residents not exempt have one more year to comply.

Backed by business groups and opposed by environmentalists, Prop. 45 would have put deadlines on environmental reviews and lawsuits for housing, water, broadband and transit projects.

San Onofre’s nuclear waste has been stored on a beach for years. This lawmaker wants to find a community willing to take it.

California approved Newsom’s Delta water rules, but Trump threatens to pull out and $740M with it. Water agencies that once backed the deal call it too strict; environmentalists say it’s too weak.

Community members appealed the permit for Phibro-Tech, a hazardous waste facility with a long history of violations. The board tasked with reviewing the appeal agreed with them, but won’t revoke the permit.

Steve Hilton would suspend California’s carbon market. Xavier Becerra’s campaign hasn’t said what it would do.

Nearly a third of local agencies maintaining Central Valley levees have performed “unacceptable” upkeep, some for years, yet the Department of Water Resources hasn’t taken over as state law requires. State water managers dispute the findings, saying maintenance is only one factor in flood risk and takeovers can cost tens of millions of dollars up front.

As El Nino nears, California found 57 dams in poor or unsatisfactory condition, and regulators have never yet penalized an owner.