Politics

The Trump administration intends to waive dozens of environmental laws so it can more speedily begin building a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

California just joined 14 other states in challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its delay implementing regulations to reduce ozone pollution.

Today California lawmakers respond to Trump's threat to "let Obamacare fail" with a retort of their own: “We’ll see you in court.”

In what is becoming a standard call-and-response rejoinder, a California water agency is considering rules to protect state wetlands after the Trump administration said it would do away with Obama-era regulations.

In a move that harkens back to environmental battles of decades past, a broad array of state officials are voicing opposition to the Trump administration’s review of whether to open four national marine sanctuaries off the California coast for oil and gas drilling.

The Trump administration is increasing its pressure on self-identified sanctuary cities—announcing this week that it would pull some federal grants if cities refuse to notify immigration enforcers when they are about to release undocumented immigrants from local jails.

(Update: On Sept. 12, the Senate voted down AB 186. Its sponsor, Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, said “I am committed to finding a way forward next year.”) Many California communities could open centers inviting addicts to shoot up hard drugs under a little-noticed bill that has cleared the state Assembly and now awaits a vote on the Senate […]

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and 19 other states’ chief law enforcement officers issued a letter urging him to save a program that protects nearly 800,000 young immigrants from deportation.

In California, a deep blue state leading the charge to curb climate change, the question for many Republicans isn’t whether global warming is happening—it’s what kind of policies are best to address it.

It has become a familiar routine for the Sears family: Gather the medical experts, trek to Sacramento, and tell another panel of lawmakers how their 6-year-old son died from the anesthesia a dentist gave him to pull a tooth. Then watch as legislators water down the solution that pediatricians insist would prevent other California children […]