May 31, 2017 | Ben Adler | Ben Bradford
On the eve of his departure for China, where he’ll hold meetings on climate change, Gov. Jerry Brown is imploring California lawmakers to extend the state’s “cap-and-trade” greenhouse gas reduction program.
May 31, 2017 | Ben Adler | Chris Nichols
State senators have passed a bill that would overhaul the state's bail system and a bill that requires California to go green by 2045. Meanwhile, lawmakers in the Assembly passed a bill offering grant increases to welfare recipients.
May 31, 2017 | Rich Ibarra
Fresno County now has the largest electric vehicle charging project in the nation in a rural area.
May 30, 2017 | Ben Bradford
The California Senate will consider this week whether the state’s electricity should come entirely from renewable power by mid-century. There’s debate about whether it’s possible for utilities to go 100 percent renewable by 2050.
May 27, 2017
Two scientists agree that pesticide-laden dust from planting equipment kills bees. But they're proposing different solutions, because they disagree about whether the pesticides are useful to farmers.
May 26, 2017 | Chris Nichols
Republican Assemblyman Jim Patterson of Fresno recently claimed Gov. Jerry Brown has slashed nearly all the money in the state’s budget to help local governments remove dead and dying trees in California’s forests.
May 18, 2017 | Amy Quinton
Scientists have for the first time quantified how much groundwater was lost in the Central Valley in the most recent drought.
May 18, 2017 | Randol White
A study released Thursday shows an earlier spring and warmer temperatures last year spurred the growth of algae, that dramatically reduced clarity readings from June through September.
May 17, 2017
The funds, which will be used to help reduce pollution and expand the electric vehicle market, are part of a second settlement reached Wednesday related to the company's emissions cheating scandal.
May 16, 2017 | Amy Quinton
A new report that gauges the health of California's native salmon, steelhead and trout paints an alarming picture. It shows 45 percent are likely to be extinct in 50 years if present trends continue.
