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Environmentalists question the sustainability commitments made by Denver-based Civitas Resources.
A $33 a month average rate hike took effect Jan. 1. Now PG&E wants up to $20 a month more. Reformers say it is time to cap annual increases.
Powerful lobbyists represent both oil and gas interests and environmental groups.
Erica Tremblay and Lily Gladstone’s film Fancy Dance still lacks a distributor almost a year after its buzzy Sundance debut.
In the face of weak labor laws, hospitality workers brought their fight for better wages and working conditions to the court of public opinion.
A therapist is “guardedly optimistic” the health care giant is taking the shortage seriously, and the union says Kaiser may now realize it must invest billions to comply with the law.
After decades of shaping the nation’s narrative, corporate America has now weaponized its playbook in a more aggressive way, the authors of Corporate Bullsh*t warn.
General Electric’s giant wind turbine facility is on track, aided by New York state and federal support.
Photojournalist Ted Soqui’s visual recap of the year in Los Angeles.
California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick on how poetry became a weapon against hate and erasure in the face of COVID-era attacks on Asian Americans.
In low-income areas of Los Angeles without supermarkets, small stores are learning to profitably sell healthy foods their customers can afford.
Science graduate student assistants and researchers are at the forefront of recent unionization efforts in academia.
Meanwhile, post-COP28, banks pull back from fossil fuels and investors seek opportunities in transition steps like carbon capture storage.
Two Christmas rushes ago, workers at this Amazon air cargo hub started to win improvements at work by relying on each other.
The company at the center of the settlement is called a “poster child” for state Oil and Gas Act reforms.
Twenty-one hotels have been cited so far. If the citations are enforced and upheld in court, hundreds of rooms could be turned back into low-cost permanent housing for the city’s poorest residents.
Minimum wages to rise statewide, with larger gains for fast food and health workers. More paid sick leave, workplace violence prevention rules and other worker protections are also to begin Jan. 1.
Both friends and foes of the newly elected populist president say their future under him is uncertain, but the certain misery of the present led to his win.
The $215 million deal made headlines, but the industry pay gap persists, along with new cases of sexual harassment.
Danny Gonzalez, one of three members elected in 2022 who voted to report transgender students to their parents and ban critical race theory, has left the board.