environment

A last-minute Newsom proposal could exempt a Santa Monica housing project from the regular coastal development process. The developer, Jeff Worthe, is a longtime Newsom donor and appointee.

Legislators this week and voters this November will weigh in on measures to curtail some of CEQA's vexing construction project restrictions.

As fire season takes hold, California is managing fuels and fire on federal lands. Can California keep it up?

California, which is having an unusually quiet fire summer, has deployed engines and crews to fight fires raging in Colorado and the Pacific Northwest — but even this well-resourced state continues to feel vulnerable.

Full suppression by 10 a.m. has not been reinstated under Trump but political pressure remains.

More than two dozen California Assembly Democrats and one state senator sent a letter Wednesday to legislative leaders asking them to delay fees under SB 54, the state’s landmark plastic reduction law, for two years — an eleventh-hour push as the Legislature hurtles toward the end of session.  The letter, addressed to Senate President Pro […]

CalEnviroScreen 5.0 dropped key SF neighborhoods from top pollution rankings.

California lawmakers are considering exempting wildfire mitigation projects from some state environmental and health rules, including allowing herbicide use.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law last year allowing Californians to kill non native mute swans. It appeared to have worked.

California voters must stand up to the corporations that want to dismantle the state's environmental laws, argues an environmental justice advocate.