Environment

A handful of municipalities and counties across California have filed lawsuits against oil companies, alleging that the energy giants knowingly contributed to climate change and should begin paying for it.

A Trump administration move to reconsider a historic agreement on use of California desert land is ostensibly about renewable energy production, but undoing the plan could also open up sensitive desert land to off-road recreation, mining and livestock grazing.

California lawmakers are considering an unprecedented request to spend more than $100 million in taxpayer money to dismantle two offshore oil-drilling facilities—a platform connected to the ruptured pipeline and a man-made island in nearby Ventura County—because the oil companies that were leasing the sites went bankrupt last year.

Obama-era fracking regulations had been tied up in court until Washington nixed them in December.

"What happens in the Sierra Nevada doesn't stay in the Sierra Nevada."

Reaction in California has been swift—and negative.

A resolution declaring the California Legislature’s opposition to the Trump administration’s proposal to expand offshore oil drilling, shouldn’t, on the face of it, be very controversial. But never underestimate the potential for politics to rear its head.

Normally upbeat officials are guarded about the prospects for success.

The Trump administration is making good on a campaign promise to exploit troves of offshore energy.

Would California withhold clean car rebates from Tesla customers if the electric car maker doesn't meet the state's evolving labor standards?