Three large wildfires—driven by ferocious Santa Ana winds—are tearing through Southern California, forcing tens of thousands to flee and shrouding Los Angeles in smoke. The Palisades, Eaton, and Hurst ...

The Eaton fire broke out hours after another blaze tore through the city’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood, destroying homes and prompting evacuation orders for tens of thousands.

The winds are common in California in the colder months, but they can sometimes help spread dangerous wildfires.

Parts of Southern California will be slammed with destructive winds leading to possible power outages and elevating the ...

Officials from the state Air Resources Board declined to comment. Under a clean air law enacted by Congress in 1967, California has the power to enforce its own tougher standards for vehicle emissions ...

The California E-Bike Incentive Project aims to combat pollution and increase access to transportation. A total of $3 million will go toward awarding 1,500 e-bikes. Applicants must be at least 18 ...

A proposed decision before the California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday calls for approving $723 million to keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo running to help ...

California has long been able to set its own emissions standards under the Clean Air Act provided they are more stringent than federal regulations. Under that authority, the state announced in ...

In the waning days of a Biden Administration which has been marked by huge progress on clean air and EV policy, the US government has approved California’s emissions rules which would end gas ...

Eleven other Democratic states have also signed on to California ... its power hinges on EPA approval of waivers that allow state officials to enforce their own rules under the Clean Air Act.

The federal EPA’s approval of the waivers — which grant California the authority to exceed the Clean Air Act — give the ... that adopt its rules more power to oppose the decision in court.

Washington — The Biden administration finalized a decision Wednesday allowing California to enact influential and long-planned vehicle emissions regulations that set an effective 100% electric ...