Environment, Energy and Transportation

Pepper Trail on Fish and Wildlife's shoot the Barred Owls strategy.

Even though California faces serious water shortages, the Legislature’s analysts recommend weaker outdoor conservation requirements and longer deadlines for urban water agencies.

Author David Lipsky gives us a historical tour of climate causes and effects and major figures, in the book The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial. nbgf7um

South Coast residents are attempting to study offshore wind projects on their own. Some are calling for a pause in development as a federal agency fails to convey its message.

A group of rural Northern California counties are jointly applying for funding from Caltrans to develop zero emission vehicle charging plans.

The Trinity River Restoration Project has spend two decades trying to put things back more like they were, but with dams and diversions still in place.

It’s a stark contrast to where the state was at last year, when a series of atmospheric rivers brought extraordinarily high levels of precipitation to California.

In the coming weeks, water will be let out from behind the three remaining dams on the Klamath River. A century's worth of sediment that has piled up behind the dams will also flow downriver.

A lawsuit was filed last week against the National Marine Fisheries Service seeking to protect the endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle.

Drops in solar and wind energy production, also known as energy droughts, could potentially last for hours in the Pacific Northwest. New research is aimed at helping grid planners better understand these energy gaps and where solutions, like battery storage, could be best utilized.

Taxes on gas and vehicle fees fund about a third of California’s transportation spending. But as the state transitions away from gas-powered vehicles to electric, a new report says this will need to change.

Big floating offshore wind turbines will soon become a reality along the West Coast.