Sable Offshore scored a rare win over environmental activists in California after regulators ruled the technical “hiccups” behind excess air pollution at one of its offshore oil platforms should be resolved within months. The Air Pollution Control District’s quasi-judicial hearing examiner Terrence Dressler granted the oil company a five-day variance allowing Platform Heritage, located eight … Read more
California’s Napa Valley is fermenting into a full-blown revolt as furious vineyard owners warn a new fee could leave them paying tens of thousands of dollars a year — the latest financial punch threatening to crush the struggling wine industry. Farmers across the iconic Northern California enclave say they are staring down financial disaster as … Read more
Several major California metropolitan areas have found themselves at the bottom of a new study measuring the best and worst-run cities in America. WalletHub analyzed 148 of the biggest American metropolitan areas, trying to determine how efficiently the local governments run each city. They developed a “Quality of Services” score based on 36 different metrics … Read more
Here’s the dirt on America. A new survey has revealed the US cities with the worst pollution, including metrics for air quality and waste management, as well as how it affects both the physical and mental well-being of their residents. The study, conducted by landscape care company LawnStarter, assessed more than 300 of America’s biggest … Read more
A medical supplies warehouse burst into flames, going up in a matter of minutes, as a new video from inside the San Joaquin facility shows just how quickly the situation got out of hand. A video taken by an employee shows a small fire burning and quickly spreading on top of the Medline warehouse’s shelving. … Read more
California drivers are facing yet another new reason why gas prices are on the rise this spring — and it has nothing to do with the US-Israeli airstrikes in Iran or oil production cuts. Rather, the culprit is the switch to summer-blend gasoline, which traditionally sends prices climbing in the Golden State ahead of the … Read more
Gavin Newsom went to Munich to complain about Trump, and to run an alternative foreign policy, signing a memorandum of understanding on climate change with the left-wing British government Monday. Trump did not take kindly to that, declaring that everything Newsom touches turns to “garbage,” and noting that it was “inappropriate” for a governor to … Read more
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is slamming the brakes on what officials have called a costly trucking emissions standard that California was seeking to apply to tens of thousands of vehicles traveling into the state — effectively nationalizing the green energy policies of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration. The US Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday its … Read more
People in parts of Central California and western Nevada remain under a Dense Smoke Advisory as the lightning-caused Garnet Fire rages in the West despite around-the-clock efforts to suppress the flames. The Garnet Fire has spread across over 56,000 acres in California and is now 15% contained. Firefighters did note that they made significant progress Tuesday holding troublesome parts of the fire … Read more
The first significant rainfall in several months will spread across Southern California on Sunday, giving a badly needed sip of water to an area parched by drought and devastated by multiple raging wildfires. But with the rain comes a cost: potential mud and debris flows where the scars remain from those wildfires that have scorched tens of thousands of acres … Read more