As extreme heat and wildfires rage, a ‘protection gap’ threatens Californians

Here’s what the state could do to stem the costs of climate disasters.

Bay Area regulators just delivered on a promise to help frontline communities breathe easier

The new rules “will save lives,” one doctor said. “It will make my patients immediately healthier.”

How homeowners of color are threatened by climate change — and climate policy

“We don’t want to create a modern form of redlining, where places that are affordable are…

How bankruptcy lets oil and gas companies evade cleanup rules

"It's basically bankruptcy for profit."

Biden’s latest executive order takes aim at climate change’s risk to the economy

The order tasks Biden's climate advisors with preparing a sweeping strategy to tackle risks to financial…

The cost to clean up New Mexico’s oil and gas industry? $8 billion.

The state has secured just 2 percent of that total from oil and gas operators.

Montana, Kansas, and Arkansas enter the arms race to criminalize protest

The Republican push to criminalize pipeline protests is expanding beyond fossil fuel-producing states.

Leaked calls show ALEC’s secret plan to fight Biden on climate

A new ALEC working group is promoting long-shot tactics like nullification and a constitutional convention.

One researcher’s quest to quantify the environmental cost of abandoned oil wells

Unplugged wells could be quietly leaking millions of pounds of methane in West Texas.

‘No teeth and no funding’: How regulators failed to police the oil industry

Thirty years of data show Texas and New Mexico officials struggled to identify and fine violators.