Regulators holding cap-and-trade auction as lawmakers consider next steps on...
Essential Politics: A flurry of final votes in the California Legislature on everything from drones to smoking ban on state beaches Aug. 31, 2016, 10:54 a.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily...
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Essential Politics: A flurry of final votes in the California Legislature on everything from drones to smoking ban on state beaches Aug. 31, 2016, 10:54 a.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily...
View ArticleClean tech leaders try to put a business-friendly spin on climate change...
Mark Bauhaus used to make a point of avoiding Sacramento. Like other technology executives, he saw state politics as nothing more than a drag on Silicon Valley's freewheeling innovation. Yet this...
View ArticleWhile cap-and-trade funds stay mired in debate, businesses feel the hit
For more than two decades, Dianne Franklin's logging business hummed in harmony with the power plant next door. Her employees cut and processed trees from forests surrounding Mt. Shasta and sent...
View ArticleA big question complicating the climate debate: Are current policies only...
In early 2015, Democratic members of the state Assembly huddled in a Cal State Sacramento conference room to hear Mary Nichols, chair of the powerful Air Resources Board, explain how her agency...
View Article'An exercise in threading the needle': Lawmakers perform balancing act to...
In this year's debate over California climate policy, much of the attention has centered on a proposal to extend and expand the state's mandate for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But it's another...
View ArticleCalifornia's climate change law clears a big hurdle after lobbyists crank up...
A controversial measure to extend California's target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions was approved by the Assembly on Tuesday, clearing a major hurdle in a battle at the Capitol over the future...
View Article'A real commitment backed up by real power': Gov. Jerry Brown to sign...
Gov. Jerry Brown marked a milestone for California's climate change policies Wednesday even as he warned of more battles to come, saying opponents of new environmental regulations were "vanquished" as...
View ArticleCalifornia's new climate change laws almost didn't happen this year. Here's...
For Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, global warming conjured images of stricken polar bears floating away on melting ice sheets, a problem with little relevance to a politician from California's bone-dry...
View ArticleGov. Brown signs sweeping legislation to combat climate change
California will become a petri dish for international efforts to slow global warming under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday, forcing one of the world's largest economies to squeeze...
View ArticleGov. Brown's renewable energy plan could boost solar, wind industries
Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal this week to significantly boost the amount of energy California derives from renewable sources could reinvigorate the state's utility-scale solar and wind industries, as...
View ArticleCalifornia's greenhouse gas emission targets are getting tougher
Gov. Jerry Brown accelerated California's effort to slash greenhouse gas emissions Wednesday, burnishing the state's reputation as a pacesetter in the battle against climate change. In an executive...
View ArticleCalifornians back new policies to fight climate change, poll says
Californians are concerned about the effects of climate change and support new steps to address the problem, according to a poll released Wednesday night by the Public Policy Institute of California....
View ArticleCalifornia is ahead of the game as Obama releases Clean Power Plan
President Obama's plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants over the next 15 years will force states to address climate change by pushing them to act more like California. The Clean Power Plan...
View ArticleGov. Jerry Brown takes aim at oil companies over 'highly destructive' product
Gov. Jerry Brown, who is in the middle of a political battle over climate-change legislation, took aim at oil companies Monday, saying they sell a "highly destructive" product."The oil industry is in...
View ArticleThis Democrat's decision on climate change could be a game changer
Henry T. Perea was having a change of heart. For years, the Democratic assemblyman had griped about the Central Valley getting shortchanged by Sacramento and overshadowed by Los Angeles, San Francisco...
View ArticleGas reduction dropped from California climate change bill
Gov. Jerry Brown faced a cascade of setbacks Wednesday as climate change legislation was stripped of his targets for reducing gasoline use, his effort to fix dilapidated roads was delayed, and there...
View ArticleA quick guide to California's climate change battle
California's battle against climate change involves an alphabet soup of agencies responsible for different programs and several key laws that guide state actions. Here's a glossary: SB 350: This bill...
View ArticleGov. Brown signs climate change bill to spur renewable energy, efficiency...
California launched an ambitious effort Wednesday to expand renewable energy and increase energy efficiency, advancing Gov. Jerry Brown's plans for battling climate change. Brown signed the new goals...
View ArticleCutting ozone will require radical transformation of California's trucking...
At a laboratory in downtown Los Angeles, a big rig spins its wheels on massive rollers as a metal tube funnels its exhaust into an array of air quality sensors. Engineers track the roaring truck's...
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