WASHINGTON — Federal meteorologists say this winter was America’s wettest on record. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that from December to February, what it calls winter, the Lower 48 states got 9.01 inches of rain and snow, which is 2.22 inches more than the 20th century normal. It...
Cox Chairs First Capitol Hill Meeting. It Lasted Just 12 Minutes.
Rep. TJ Cox chaired his first meeting of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday (Feb. 26). The official portion didn’t last long. The topic was how industries manipulate science and climate change information, but much of Twitter’s reaction was about the brevity...
Newsom Will Rebut Trump in State of the State Address. How to Watch It.
Gov. Gavin Newsom will deliver his first State of the State address to a joint session of the California Legislature at 11 a.m. today. You can watch it live on The California Channel at this link. Go to CALmatters.org afterward for coverage and live analysis. Political junkies who would like to compare Newsom's speech with...
Opinion: Bipartisan Bill Promises Climate Policy Breakthrough
They said it couldn’t be done. They said Republicans and Democrats could never work together in Congress to impact the climate change crisis. But last week, three Republicans and three Democrat members of Congress did just that. On November 27, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), Rep. Frances Rooney (R-FL), Rep. Charlie...
Friedman: High Wall With Big Gate for Immigration
The immigration debate we're having in the United States doesn't begin to acknowledge global realities, writes New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman in his Nov. 27 piece. "There are now more climate refugees, economic migrants searching for work and political refugees just searching for order than at any point...
AP Fact Check: Trump’s Misdirection on CA Fires, Climate
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is going too far in assigning most of the blame for California's devastating wildfires on the state's forest management. In comments over the weekend, he called forest management a "big problem" and suggested that California officials needed to do a much better job. But most...
How Will Newsom Lead California? He Explains.
In this 6-minute preview of his plans for California, Gov-elect Gavin Newsom explains why he's a risk-taker and how he plans to fix what ails the state. In the video interview above, Newsom talks about how he will lead California. He covers healthcare, his relationship with President Donald Trump, climate...
Face-Off for Governor: Gavin Newsom vs. John Cox
Republican John Cox and Democrat Gavin Newsom, the candidates for California governor, begin by talking to CALmatters' reporters and editors about how they'd run the Golden State differently from the current officeholder, Gov. Jerry Brown. Other Covered Topics The two also discuss at these timestamps: — Improving schools (1:20) —...
Too Good to Be True? CO2 Could Be Fuel of the Future.
As climate deniers and their allies in industry and government thwart conservationists’ efforts, some scientists are working to develop a backup plan. That plan uses technology to “geoengineer” the Earth's atmosphere and reduce the impacts of climate change, says VICE on HBO in the introduction to its explanatory video on...
2 Americans Win Nobel Prize for Work on Climate and Growth
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel prize in economics was awarded Monday to one American who has studied the economics of climate change — and to another whose research on technological innovation has raised hopes that human beings are creative enough to do something about it. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...