California

Recent scientific reports reveal that more than half of all marine life has been wiped out since 1970.

The state legislature has passed a package of bills designed to bring order to the billion-dollar medical pot industry.

Anti fracking groups point out the contradiction between the campaign to take “carbon out of the modern economy” and strong support of fracking.

Prisoners, advocates and their supporters see the settlement as the first step toward ending solitary confinement.

California has agreed to greatly reduce the use of solitary confinement.

Environmental politics has no bigger issue than than the capture of the regulatory apparatus by the regulated.

California is trying to move away from group care altogether, having concluded it is largely a failure.

Members of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in California are bracing for one of their biggest environmental justice struggles yet.

As California is showing, adaptation will soften some of the blows of climate-related impacts.

San Francisco tenants are refusing to allow landlords to displace them from rent-controlled units in order to raise rents.