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Facing growing public backlash and a pivot from his own past vetoes, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of seven bills on Monday that aim to force the data center industry to pay its own way in California.

The judge said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service committed three errors when it refused to designate a critical habitat for the species, despite listing a segment of the foxes' population as endangered.

Dire water conditions, missed deadlines and uncertainty on the Colorado River are complicating critical water decisions in California.

California lawmakers stared down Gov. Gavin Newsom and emerged with hundreds of millions of dollars in climate money for projects he didn’t necessarily want to fund.

The California Supreme Court dealt a blow to a local government’s ability to seize water utilities on Monday, ruling that courts get the final say on whether a public utility is necessary.

California, Nevada and Arizona will collectively receive 1.25 million acre-feet less water over the next two years.

Lawmakers on Thursday killed a controversial plan that could have allowed grizzly bears to one day return to California.

At the center of the rift is whether upstream states will agree to evenly share mandatory water cuts and accept long-term conservation plans in order to spare downstream states from taking steeper cuts.

The coastal marten, a rare orange-furred carnivore native to the forests of Oregon and Northern California, was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 2020 after losing much of its habitat to logging and wildfires.

Teamsters California says the state failed to perform a specific analysis which is required because of the financial impact to the state.