Nick Cahill

Scrapping another Trump-era environmental policy, the Biden administration on Thursday dropped plans to roll back vehicle emissions standards and said California and other states could resume with their own rigorous fuel economy rules.

With major counties experiencing record early in-person voting and millions of ballots left uncounted, the race for the White House has boiled down to Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona.

With $3 trillion in potential pandemic aid in limbo despite record unemployment across much of the United States, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped Republicans on Wednesday for months of inaction and failing American workers. 

Experts told California lawmakers the state’s lofty goal of carbon neutrality is attainable and affordable through a sweeping plan centered around converting trash to energy, trapping and burying carbon dioxide and restoring wetlands and forests.

With California trudging through another wildfire season marked by mass evacuations and widespread pre-emptive blackouts, Democratic presidential hopeful and Sen. Kamala Harris on Friday proposed $1 billion in credits for cities willing to fireproof neighborhoods and update vulnerable electrical systems.

President Donald Trump wasn’t on the agenda at Friday’s summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee, but the party’s 2020 hopefuls injected him into the top of it anyway.

Rushing to dampen what’s likely to be another long and daunting wildfire season, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an emergency order Friday that suspends certain environmental reviews and speeds up tree removal near the state’s most fire-prone communities.

Less than two months after firefighters extinguished a deadly California wildfire deemed the world’s costliest natural disaster in 2018, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s nixing emergency aid to thousands left homeless by the fire. 

Wasting little time after California Gov. Jerry Brown signed landmark internet protections for consumers, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Sunday night sued to stop hours-old legislation being called the strongest net neutrality laws in the nation.

Fighting for the linchpin of its air quality laws, California introduced a plan Tuesday to require automakers to continue making highly efficient cars even if President Donald Trump slashes fuel economy standards.