Food, toiletries and over-the-counter medicines have been marked up so high that many prisoners are simply priced out.
Industry lobbyists targeting legislators with “myth after myth” to stop emissions disclosure bill, says key environmental group.
Sempra is pitching lawmakers on industry-friendly climate solutions paid by ratepayers.
Emissions disclosure bill is testing the state’s climate resolve in the face of industry misinformation.
The Treasurer’s Office paid $73.2 million to banks that sell state climate bonds while still funding fossil fuels.
Assemblymember Tina McKinnor refused to take up the bill in a committee, for the second year in a row, as divestment movement grows.
The renters’ caucus is pushing to win both protections and political clout for the state’s 17 million renters.
Industry is ‘misadvertising’ a carbon capture bill in order to obscure its risky intent, according to an oil and gas advocate.
Black, Latino and low income residents have disproportionately high exposure to oil and gas wells, new research shows.
It takes a constitutional amendment followed by a statewide vote to legalize balloting behind bars. Will it happen?
After industry lobbyists halted the oil and gas well safe-distance law, their well-funded referendum could sway voters with misinformation.
Inside the latest, smallest group in the California Legislature.
The state’s fossil fuel industry spends millions more backing midterm candidates.
A handful of legislators could decide measures for tougher statewide emissions goals.
With Newsom’s environmental legacy in the balance, legislators are intensely pushing bills that advance the governor’s priorities.
If the Legislature does not approve the bill by Thursday, a similar initiative will proceed to the November ballot.
Advocates say big telecom proposals could water down the state’s ambitious effort to connect 98% of residents by 2026.
The legislation would increase fines for violations at long last, but is getting heavy pushback.
Over the past four years, fossil fuel companies paid almost $77.5 million to lobby lawmakers in Sacramento.
Three bills may fall victim to a new push for more oil drilling.