Environment

In polls voters say they want a cleaner energy future — but not if it wrecks jobs, doubles their bills or pushes out California’s middle class.

Regulators can approve up to 30 neighborhood decarbonization zones. Will poorer neighborhoods get first shot at climate saving energy options?

California trucks much of its organic waste to landfills instead of recyclers, largely because of an exclusive franchise hauling system.

Today’s anti-environmentalists follow tracks laid by the ‘Phantom Duck’ and the Barstow-to-Vegas Race, where thousands of bikers sped across open desert.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin met with local and congressional leaders in San Diego on Thursday to tout the U.S. and Mexico's progress in cleaning up the polluted Tijuana River.

Assemblymember David Alvarez is pushing a proposal to get Prop. 4 dollars out the door faster more than a year after voters approved the state’s biggest climate bond to date.

Volcanic rock at the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument filters rain and snowmelt into an underground aquifer network that holds as much as 200 of California's biggest reservoirs.

Residents are angry that the natural gas storage site still operates. Its methane gas leak in 2015-16 displaced 10,000 families and caused illness.

Regulators will hold a hearing Jan. 15 at the OSHA Standards Board in Sacramento on changes that will weaken safety standards for refineries.

To avoid repeating last year’s urban blaze, we should fund fire-safe homes and neighborhoods, but politicians often are paying to thin out forests far from urban settings.