"Justices told a lower court to revisit their decision to uphold cuts of 75 percent to payments for solar panel owners."

"Documents supporting the EPA’s plan to roll back vehicle emission standards reference California by name nearly 30 times. For more than 50 years, California has had special authority from the EPA to set strict tailpipe emission standards. The agency’s own analysis indicates that without California’s leadership and tax credits created under President Biden, national adoption of electric vehicles will decline and gasoline prices will increase." 

"The United States and Mexico have signed an agreement outlining specific steps and a new timetable to clean up the longstanding problem of the Tijuana River pouring sewage across the border and polluting California beaches, officials from both countries announced Thursday."

"The first-in-the-nation regulation, passed last year, will cut NOx emissions from more than 1 million boilers and water heaters in the smoggy Los Angeles area."

"If you were a miner in California during the Gold Rush, you might have dined on a California red-legged frog."

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Attorney General Pam Bondi toured the halls of Alcatraz prison at Golden Gate National Recreation Area on Thursday, marveling over some of the names of "the rock's" most notorious prisoners to announce that the crumbling facility would be renovated to house "the most dangerous criminals and illegals."

"Officials are shoring up water systems infiltrated by the golden mussel. Dogs and human inspectors are checking boats at some lakes, but a patchwork of oversight leaves many lakes unprotected. “There’s just too many boats and too many people out there,” one warden said." 

"With 7 of its most ambitious rules for cars, trucks and trains repealed, California officials now must find new ways to clean up the nation’s worst air pollution. But officials face growing pushback about affordability and costs."