California’s 'obligation to serve' requires utilities to supply people with energy. However, in its current form, some think this code stands in the way of rapid, equitable and cost-effective d...
Alameda County was the first in the Bay Area to halt high-intensity oil and gas operations back in 2016.
San Francisco officials told KQED that the city would continue prohibiting gas hookups in new housing and commercial construction, even after Berkeley agreed last week to stop enforcing its hard-...
Gov. Gavin Newsom follows up on his 2021 vision to permanently end fracking in California in pursuit of California’s target of 100% clean energy by 2045.
Solar advocates say a controversial new rate that takes effect across California today will further drive down demand for solar and threaten the state’s efforts to meet its goal of 100% clean p...
More than a quarter of the cars sold in California last quarter were EVs. Here’s everything you need to know about buying an EV in the Bay Area in 2024.
A map of the latest power outages in the Bay Area and beyond, displayed by incident and outage area, and per county.
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'Little diamond capsules' and 192 lasers sparked a scientific breakthrough in the Bay Area, but Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has yet to recreate December's successful ignition.
The ambitious plan would phase out the state's diesel truck fleets, from semi-trucks to delivery vans and garbage trucks.
Efforts to build out the new industry will create jobs while providing federal incentives for developers to invest in coastal communities where new infrastructure will be needed.
Urgently trying to help an endangered species devastated by drought, biologists hauled 40,000 eggs to the McCloud River this year, then brought the young fish back again to migrate. So far, it's ...
A new report finds that truck manufacturers and an industry trade group privately lobbied to weaken US climate policies while publicly promoting zero-emissions trucks.
Gov. Gavin Newsom described the wind lease sale as a 'critical component' of the state hitting its goal of 90% clean energy by 2035 in what he hailed as a 'new era of climate action.'
A unique approach makes the information equally valuable to doctors, administrators and patients in communities that are most vulnerable to the impacts of global warming.
The plan would siphon down the state's use of fossil fuels almost entirely by 2045.
A delegation from Sonoma County will represent the Bay Area at COP27.
California's last nuclear power plant is slated to close by 2025, but lawmakers and the governor are discussing a compromise to delay that.
The US Supreme Court's decision to limit federal environmental protection rules will have little to no effect on California's carbon-reduction policies, according to experts — and state leaders...
The oil company plans on removing carbon from the atmosphere and pumping it into the ground to extract more oil in the Permian Basin. Climate activists fear the fossil fuel industry will use this...
Homeowners with rooftop solar arrays can sell excess energy back to the utility company. A proposal to change how that works has erupted in conflicts over fairness, jobs and the state's climate g...
Dozens of organizations in the coalition received charitable contributions in 2020 worth $1.67 million from big California utilities that see solar as the competition.
Take a look back at big climate and environmental events of 2021, and some hopeful forecasts for 2022.
The COP26 climate conference is underway in Glasgow, Scotland. Here in the Bay Area, KQED’s climate reporters are talking with locals who are working on solutions.
Calling the U.N.’s latest climate assessment a "flashing code red," Granholm said the U.S. needs to immediately reduce carbon and methane emissions.
Lauren Sanchez left the Biden administration to advise Gov. Newsom on climate change.
Hundreds of the world’s top scientists are hashing out final details of the next UN climate report, as the world is tested, again, by extreme heat, drought, flood and fires.
Hundreds of scientists are meeting to finalize a landmark climate report. It's meant to guide the next decade of international climate policy, but it's unclear if politicians will act on it.
Lawmakers have agreed to pay off $2 billion of Californians’ utilities debt, but haven’t extended the shutoff moratoria past Sept. 30. One family’s experience of surviving a heat wave witho...
A deadly summer in the Pacific Northwest augurs more heat waves, and more deaths to come
California is using microgrids to improve energy resilience as a cycle of extreme heat, drought and wildfires hammers the West.