State Farm will almost entirely stop issuing new policies in California – with climate-exacerbated wildfires and bad public policy a large reason why.

California’s housing shortage and climate crisis are often treated as if they are unrelated to each other. In fact, they are deeply interconnected.

An unlikely coalition of housing advocates and environmentalists has joined forces in an attempt to take on the intersection of housing and climate policy with legislation they unveiled Thursday.

The West’s new climate is exacerbating housing inequality in the quintessentially blue state of California.

As global warming brings more intense rainfall, experts say the state needs to give rivers more room to flood safely. But the obstacles are enormous.

As the effects of climate change grow more dire, danger is rising for Americans in floodplains, coastal marshlands, wildfire-prone areas and swaths of land struggling with drought.

Temperatures could rise by more than 10 degrees in certain fast-growing parts of California.

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As California ramps up pressure on local authorities to build more housing, it also should be more specific on where that housing can and cannot be built in light of California’s propensity for destructive wildfires.

“Parking minimums” may not sound exciting. But if you live in the U.S., they have likely shaped your city. For the better part of a century, in a bid to make driving easier, almost every town in the country has forced developers to build a minimum number of parking spaces at almost every kind of building, from apartment blocks to abattoirs.

After years of thwarted attempts, California leaders succeeded Wednesday in passing a pair of bills that will accelerate construction of new housing units in sleepy urban areas zoned for retail shops, office buildings or parking.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday unraveled a decades-old statewide requirement that every home, office and business come with a specified number of parking spots — a policy that environmentalists and housing advocates say has fueled California’s car dependency and hindered its climate progress.

California is finally poised to lift parking requirements across the state. Here’s why that would be a huge win for the climate.

Constructing more condensed communities in existing neighborhoods has been found to go a long way toward fighting climate change.

Across the Western United States, wildfires are growing larger and more severe as global warming intensifies. At the same time, new data shows, more Americans than ever are moving to parts of the country more likely to burn, raising the odds of catastrophe.

Rules that mandate excess parking in new development projects have added to the overlapping crises of housing affordability, urban sprawl and climate change, advocates say. California could soon bar cities from imposing them.

Parking reform on Gov. Newsom’s desk could deliver major environmental & equity wins

It took a decade, but the California legislature has finally delivered to the governor one of the most critical climate and equity bills in the country. No, it’s not mandating carbon neutrality or increasing renewable energy. It’s finally ending local mandates that all new housing and infill projects must include car storage, even if they’re located within half-mile of transit.

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Assembly Bill 2011 would streamline approvals to convert empty strip malls, office parks and parking lots into affordable and mixed-income housing, concentrating development in order to build resilient communities and protect our planet.

Can California’s roads handle police and firefighters headed one way towards a wildfire while people evacuate in the other direction?

The Biden administration is convinced the state’s highways, pedestrian walkways, bike paths and other infrastructure need help.

When Pat Donley learned about the proposed 16,000-acre luxury development that would border her ranch in the burn-scarred hills of Northern California, her mind raced back to the terrifying hour she spent in bumper-to-bumper traffic while fleeing the Valley fire in 2015, as a barrage of flames advanced down either side of the road.

As the world struggles for consensus on climate action and national policy focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the impacts of climate change occur all around us. Drought, intense heat, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and rising seas, all on a scale not previously seen and often happening concurrently, bear witness to this.