Climate

California lawmakers have approved a bill that could help strengthen regulations on the use of paraquat, a powerful weedkiller associated with Parkinson’s disease and other serious health issues. Assembly Bill …

Over the last three decades, California has seen increasing erosion after major wildfires — a phenomenon that not only endangers water resources and ecosystems, but is also likely to worsen …

Environmental regulators are faulting Chiquita Canyon Landfill for making “no meaningful improvement” in reducing noxious odors emanating from the Castaic facility and have ordered operators to take additional steps to …

Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of …

Two weeks ago, I dropped my 3-year-olds off at school for the first time. It was a happy day — until I learned that the California state Assembly was planning …

Amid tense, closed-door negotiations, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers have released a suite of seven bills that aim to reduce Californians’ soaring energy costs — including a controversial electricity …

Alexia Rangel recalled sweating as she rang up customer orders at a Taco Bell in Alhambra during an early August heat wave. The air conditioning wasn’t working, she and fellow …

The California Department of Food and Agriculture said Thursday that H5N1 bird flu is suspected to have infected three dairy herds in the state. In a news release, officials said …

Stockton’s McLeod Lake is looking pretty in pink this week. The splash of color is part of a study being conducted by the California Department of Water Resources, which is …

Welcome to Boiling Point. I’m Hayley Smith, a staff writer on The Times’ climate team filling in for my colleague Sammy Roth. As an environment reporter who covers climate change …