The lawsuit claims that California's air regulator rushed changes to its signature cap-and-invest program without proper ...

As the state drafts pipeline rules for projects injecting CO2 underground, environmental groups are pressing for a more thorough assessment of the newly launched operation.

California lawmakers approved changes this week to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), first passed in 1970 by then-California Governor Ronald Reagan, through a budget bill. This will ...

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Sable Offshore scored a rare win over environmental activists in California after regulators ruled the technical “hiccups” ...

For years, this lot just south of the West Oakland BART station has sat vacant, surrounded by RVs and broken-down vehicles. This was supposed to be housing—a 222-unit tower with 16 apartments set ...

Former Golden State Gov. Jerry Brown once said that reforming the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) was “the Lord’s work.” He isn’t alone. All of California’s governors since Ronald Reagan — ...

Earlier this week, California lawmakers passed among the most sweeping reforms to the state’s environmental regulations in more than half a century. The measures were primarily intended to boost ...

In 2016, California announced plans to retire Diablo Canyon, the state’s last nuclear power plant. Coming from America’s most influential environmental rulemaker, the decision seemed to confirm ...

In 1947, decades before the federal Clean Air Act, California’s leaders began regulating the causes of harmful air pollution. It was also our state that, in 2006 under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, ...