California

Governor Convenes Session to Hold Oil Industry Accountable for Price Gouging

This fall’s spike occurred while crude oil prices dropped, state taxes and fees remained unchanged and gas prices did not…

3 years ago

California Has A New Poet Laureate

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom Nov. 18 appointed Lee Herrick to serve as California’s 10th Poet Laureate. Herrick, 52, of…

3 years ago

California Expands Clean Transportation in Underserved Communities

The CPUC’s $1 billion transportation electrification program provides a funding structure for utility transportation electrification efforts statewide through 2030, and…

3 years ago

EPA Responds to Petitions to Address Harmful Emissions from Locomotives

As part of EPA’s response to these petitions, the agency is taking immediate steps to develop options and recommendations to…

3 years ago

California Releases World’s First Plan to Achieve Net Zero Carbon Pollution

This news follows the latest greenhouse gas inventory, showing that 2020 had the steepest recorded drop in pollution in California…

3 years ago

Governor’s Briefs: Student Loan Debt Taxes Forgiven, Housing Accountability Anniversary and Judicial Appointment

Gov. Newsom Calls for Early Action to Waive Taxes on Forgiven Student Loan Debt, Providing Up to $1.3 Billion in…

3 years ago

Gov. Newsom Calls for More Aggressive Action on Homelessness, Pauses Latest Round of State Funding

The Governor is calling all local jurisdictions together for a meeting in mid-November to coordinate on an approach that will…

3 years ago

Essential Grocery Store Workers’ Unions Commend Attorneys General Lawsuits to Stop Albertsons $4 Billion Stockholder Payout

The court filing details the unusual structuring of the merger designed to take Albertson’s from a cash-flush company to a…

3 years ago

L.A. County Supervisors Act to Curb Rising Respiratory Syncytial Virus Rates

The action comes on the heels of neighboring Orange County proclaiming a local emergency due to rapidly spreading RSV infections…

3 years ago

Governor Newsom Announces Appointments

 SACRAMENTO —  Gov. Gavin Newsom, Oct. 28 and Nov. 2 respectively, announced the following appointments: Thomas Giandomenico, 55, of Los…

3 years ago