This story was originally published . Sign up for their newsletters. Oil pumps in the Kern River Oil Field near Bakersfield on July 6, 2022. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local An ...

Proposed legislation hasn't moved out of the Assembly and Senate, raising questions about how far California will go in efforts to make oil and gas companies pay for climate damage.

Determined to save the world from climate change, California has nearly shut down its oil and gas industry, though the Golden State currently gets 50 percent of its total energy from oil and another ...

California has filed a major lawsuit against five of the world’s largest oil companies, saying they knew as far back as the 1950s that their products are major contributors to climate change.

Only weeks ago, new science had buoyed state legislation to calculate the costs of climate change ... California Legislature, after lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom spent years challenging oil ...

Our economy depends on oil and gas even as California looks ... not because of climate change, but because of poor land management by state leaders that left the city’s foothills primed to ...

RICHMOND, California ... Richmond’s city limits at its century-old, 3,000-acre plant just north of San Francisco. Within weeks of the tax being placed on the ballot, the oil and gas giant ...

Should cities and counties in California ... passed oil drilling restrictions over the past decade, from Antioch and Brentwood in Contra Costa County to Santa Cruz County to the city of Los ...

LOS ANGELES — As California positions itself as a leader on climate change ... oil companies and other donors tied to the industry over more than three decades in public life, according to city ...

"I think this lawsuit will be helpful to all of California's efforts to address climate change. That's because it seeks to stop Big Oil from lying about the science and blocking climate solutions ...

Oil companies had their ... which had support from nearly every California environmental organization. Despite California’s reputation for taking the lead on climate change, the death of Senate ...