Coastal Restoration

YIMBYs and NIMBYs are battling over legislation to allow more duplexes, but some experts downplay its impact on California housing.

Our state should be a leader on clean energy, not setting a defeatist timeline that would lock in fossil fuel pollution.

Environmental groups are seeking to undo a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency that handed Florida officials primary regulatory authority over the state’s wetlands

The United States formally exits the Paris Agreement, a global pact forged five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change.

State officials will vote next week on whether to allow four gas-fired power plants along the Southern California coast to keep operating past 2020, in the first major energy supply decision for Gov.

Some say oil and gas exploration is essential as a source of jobs and revenue for Alaska Native communities, but activists argue it is simply exploitation.

The Newsom administration is requiring Californians wear face coverings but hasn't addressed how the new rule will be enforced.

Watch "War on the EPA" for the backstory on how the battle over environmental regulations and climate science has been waged.

Should Airline Bailouts Come With Conditions? And, Climate as a ‘Threat Multiplier’

A tech billionaire’s PowerPoint brought the Trillion Trees climate plan to the president, a textbook case of ad hoc policymaking in the Trump era.

L.A.-area leaders were full of reasons to kill the bill. So, what's their solution to the housing crisis?

The Trump administration has finished a new rule that rolls back environmental controls on many wetlands and intermittent streams, delivering a win to rural landowners.

For now, the administration can use a higher estimate for the societal cost of rising greenhouse gasses when federal agencies draft regulations.

Environmentalists and industry are at odds over a November ballot initiative that would reduce single-use plastics and polystyrene food containers.

Beijing’s aggressive South China Sea expansion shows its willingness to defy international laws for President Xi Jinping’s visions of power.

A new generation of scientists have uncovered barrels containing DDT, a toxic pesticide banned decades ago, dumped into the deep ocean.

For decades, public agencies and environmental advocates have worked to “Keep Tahoe Blue” by reducing the amount of pollution that makes its way into the Lake, including everything from

The Great American Outdoors Act would provide billions of dollars to buy land and care for national parks after years of budget cuts and delayed maintenance.

Efforts to block research on climate change don’t just come from the Trump political appointees on top. Lower managers in government are taking their cues, and running with them.

Both are existential challenges—and a president who belittles and neglects science has made them both tougher to address

Critics say the Public Utilities Commission is poised to keep emissions reductions chugging along at an unacceptably slow pace.

"We call on governments to incorporate explicit safeguards for biodiversity."

Tijuana's sewage fouled California beaches for decades. Now unlikely allies have gotten the Trump administration to spend $300 million to address the environmental mess.

Malibu city officials approve overnight parking restrictions for sections of PCH, saying a similar move by L.A. County pushed homeless people living in RVs and cars into the city. But the Coastal Commission can block the new rules.