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California moves forward, and looks back
Dems cheer and fume, California cars block climate change goals, Giants owner wasn't the only Hyde-Smith donor, and incoming lawsuits on boardroom diversity.
Hannah-Beth Jackson
Economy
Can California’s new boardroom diversity law withstand courtroom backlash? Women say ‘bring it on’
Opponents of SB 826, a new California law mandating gender diversity in corporate boardrooms, warn that it will be challenged in court. Defenders of the law say it will bring California corporations into the 21st century.
Newsletters
Fire lines, women in office and families
Wildfire helpers, Paradise Thanksgiving, Camp Fire forensics, a record election for women, California family leave law, Brown's clemency, the Tigar family.
Economy
A ‘job killer’ family leave bill is now law for small business. Here’s how it’s working out
The California Chamber of Commerce called the state's small business family leave protections a 'job killer.' Here's how Hannah-Beth Jackson's Senate Bill 63 is really working out.
Newsletters
Climate change, the net and a burger boycott
The Cadiz water project, Steve Ballmer's Inglewood arena, ZEVs, clean water and cannabis are on tap for California lawmakers. Also: climate change sticker shock, net neutrality, #metoo, In-N-Out, Labor Day and more.
Newsletters
Bad air, forest crisis and a showdown
Legislation that would alter liability law for California utilities whose equipment sparks wildfires faces a show-down today before a special two-house legislative conference committee.
Economy
California may mandate a woman in the boardroom—but businesses are fighting it
California is moving toward becoming the first state to fine companies that fail to have women on their boards of directors.
Environment
As California oil regulator seeks more money, legislators ask “Is this working?”
California’s oil and gas regulator has endured years of scolding from the Legislature for a lack of accountability, from environmentalists for allowing an industry to run roughshod over a state regulator, and from the federal Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce clean water laws. But the state’s oil watchdog is undertaking a comprehensive reform, officials say, that will radically change the agency’s culture and modernize a department with one foot in the last century.
Environment
California taxpayers could foot the bill to shutter old oil rigs in the Pacific
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.
