Proposed legislation hasn't moved out of the Assembly and Senate, raising questions about how far California will go in efforts to make oil and gas companies pay for climate damage.

The city of San Francisco has outsourced much of its governance to an army of nongovernmental organizations. The structure of this arrangement has become so complex and convoluted that San Francisco ...

Harmful "forever chemicals" have been found in fish in the bay. They are a health risk and threaten and what many consider a ...

When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental ...

California's CEQA environmental law has been used to block housing at the expense of the environment and climate it was ...

After years spent transforming a San Francisco hillside once littered with trash into a lush community garden, a group of Portola neighbors hired a contractor this spring to turn the drab concrete ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warns that wildfire smoke contains dangerous pollutants in the form of fine ...

Two bills endorsed by Gov. Gavin Newsom would be the most transformative changes to the California Environmental Quality Act ...

concerns are being raised about the impacts to the surrounding environment. The fire at the Moss Landing Vistra Power Plant, located about 90 miles south of San Francisco, broke out last Thursday ...

Made quickly and with minimal fuss, a park for skateboarders revived a downtown site — and offered a few lessons for urban revitalization.