Backers say the climate superfund is a fair solution to California’s budget crunch as well as a long-overdue reckoning for an industry that knowingly caused the climate crisis.

Seven people were "unaccounted for" in Yolo County's town of Esparto after several explosions at a fireworks warehouse resulted in a fire, officials said.

Aerial images show a sinkhole next to a construction site in California swallowing cars and threatening nearby buildings. Ventura city leaders say the construction project appears to be at fault.

California's, and the world's, largest battery energy storage facility was just green-lit for Fresno County. The Darden project also includes a solar farm.

The founder of a California-based porn empire that recruited women with false modeling offers pleaded guilty to sex trafficking charges in a federal court, authorities said.

A Southern California community returned for the first time Friday ahead of Easter to the site where a church burned down during January's wildfires.

Yesterday, the Assembly version of the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act passed out of its first California Assembly Committee – the Natural Resource Committee – in a 9-4 vote.

Viridi, which makes battery energy storage systems in Buffalo, acquired a facility in California in a $7-million deal.

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.

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

Should polluters pay? California’s climate ‘superfund’ plan may have stalled Proposed legislation hasn't moved out of the state Assembly or Senate, raising questions about how far California ...