As of last month, 26.1 percent of California’s lands and 21.9 percent of its coastal waters are under “long-term conservation and care,” according to a new progress report published Monday by the ...

The climate is supposedly a life or death issue, but California Democrats won't let it get in the way of their monopoly on state power.

Clean-energy projects have new deadlines for federal tax credits and limits on foreign parts, taking aim at California’s ...

Frank Buckley talks with San Francisco Chronicle senior political writer Joe Garofoli and Washington Post White House reporter Tyler Pager on how politics will take shape in California and in the ...

High temperatures, wildfire smoke and drought: The politics of climate change in one California congressional district By Dan Merica , CNN Photographs by Damon Casarez for CNN 12 minute read ...

California, with an economy that ranks as the world’s fifth-largest, embarked this week on its most aggressive effort yet to confront climate change, after lawmakers passed a flurry of bills ...

California lawmakers should work with Gov. Gavin Newsom on his five-point plan to strengthen the state’s climate targets, even though it’s a last-minute effort.

We need it: for housing, for climate, for traffic, for commerce. And if so many other countries could get it done, we just won't accept that it's beyond our reach.

The developments represent a revival of California’s influence on the nation’s climate and clean air policies, following four years in which President Donald J. Trump waged legal, political ...

Wildfires in Los Angeles are being driven by climate change, not political mismanagement, and California’s leaders have taken meaningful steps to address the issue, but the sheer scale of the… ...