Former Governor Focuses on Saving California Forests from Wildfires November 15, 2021 By Kathleen Ronayne As smoke lingered in the air amid another destructive California wildfire season, former Gov. Jerry Brown invited a group to...
California Legislative Special Committee to Consider Wildfire Liability July 6, 2018 California lawmakers may change the standard for determining whether utilities are liable for wildfire damage following the worst wildfire season...
Far-Reaching Data Privacy Bill Approved in California July 2, 2018 By Sophia Bollag California will soon have what experts call the nation’s most far-reaching law to give consumers more control over their personal...
California Lawmakers Want to Beef up Dam Checks After Oroville February 14, 2018 California would beef up dam inspections under legislation sent to Gov. Jerry Brown, a year after a near disaster prompted...
California Governor Looking Around World for Climate Changes Allies June 2, 2017 By Jonathan J. Cooper Looking for allies in the fight against climate change, California Gov. Jerry Brown headed to China this week in a...
Monstrous Southern California Wildfire Displaces More than 80,000 August 18, 2016 By Robert Jablon It tore through canyons and flew over ridges in every direction with astonishing speed, sending flames 80 feet skyward and...
California Governor Signs Bill Earthquake Insurance Information Bill September 18, 2014 Gov. Jerry Brown has signed Assembly Bill 2064, a bill aimed at changing the way Californians learn about earthquake insurance...
Calls For Warning System Hastened by California Quake August 27, 2014 By Ellen Knickmeyer and Sudhin Thanawala The earthquake that jolted California’s wine capital may have caused at least $1 billion in property damage, but it also...
California Storms Didn’t End Drought, Says Task Force March 5, 2014 The state’s Drought Task Force says two recent storms that washed over drought-stricken California were welcome, but that the state...
California Lawmakers Question Regulating Fracking February 14, 2013 California lawmakers are expressing doubts a Gov. Jerry Brown administration proposal to regulate hydraulic fracturing is tough enough and can...