In the wake of the raging California wildfires, environmental groups are shifting the climate conversation away from mitigation, toward adaptation and resilience.

New York and Vermont recently passed laws like these, which require energy companies to pay climate damages and will likely face fierce challenges.

Democrats hold super-majorities in the California State Assembly and the Senate. Democrats can, and do, pass legislation without a single Republican vote.

“The clearest way climate change is affecting fire in the western United States and California is through the direct influence that warmer atmospheric temperatures have,” Williams ...

Today, the Los Angeles Times is launching Boiling Point, a podcast about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Yes, that’s the same name as this newsletter. I hope you’ll subscribe and listen.

In the wake of several deadly California wildfires a new poll shows how Americans are reacting to the disaster, which left at least two dozen people dead and reduced entire neighborhoods to charred rubble.

Insurance companies are canceling homeowner policies across the U.S. — even in regions that aren't considered climate hot spots.

Those final, unknown costs and eventual payouts coincide with an inflection point in California’s home insurance market, the biggest in the U.S., in the age of climate change. Home insurance rates are increasing across the country, but the Golden State ...

Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the wildfires in Southern California, experts say.

Trump's picks to lead four federal agencies testified without the flashes of anger that marked Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi's earlier showdowns.