Greenhouse Gas Emissions

California lawmakers struck a deal to divert $125 million in climate funding to buy the former Golden Gate Fields track and turn it into a park. Gov. Gavin Newsom supports the project.

First-time electric vehicle buyers in California could soon get thousands of dollars off the sticker price. Here’s how to apply.

California’s first commercial carbon-storage project is operating even though the state has yet to adopt rules required by law, 19 months after a key deadline.

California air regulators on Friday approved a contentious overhaul of the state’s carbon market, creating a program that could steer billions of dollars in free pollution permits to oil refineries and other major polluters over the objections of environmental groups, key lawmakers and three of the board’s own members. Ten members of the California Air […]

California is considering handing oil refineries and other major polluters billions of dollars in free emission allowances just as the state says carbon reductions need to come faster than ever. In the last six months, two refineries have closed and gas prices have topped an average of $6 a gallon as the Iran-Israel war sent […]

New regulations by the air resources board are better for oil refiners but the state will get less auction money to use for wildfire prevention and other projects.

Climate programs cause smaller costs in California's gas prices, but the limited supply routes and a highly concentrated refining market cause bigger price boosts.

Proposed changes to state climate law may boost gas-pump prices by up to $1 a gallon by 2030. Also more refineries and jobs may leave California.

The rules would hold pollution magnets like warehouses, ports and railyards accountable for the trucks and ships they attract.

California built a first-in-the-nation system to police refinery profits during price spikes. Regulators delayed it for five years.