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The article discusses California Governor Jerry Brown's proposal of several climate change-related environmental goals in 2015, focusing on issues related to electricity derived from renewable sources, petroleum use reductions, and the auctioning of carbon-dioxide emissions permits.

The article argues that reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act and the California Fish and Game Code could advance renewable-energy development and reduce the use of fossil fuels without harming environmental protections as of April 2014.

An editorial is presented which discusses environmental policies in California as of November 2013, arguing that a U.S. Department of Energy study indicates that ambitious cap and trade programs, fuel efficiency investments, and solar power initiatives are still not enough to achieve unrealistic carbon emission reduction goals.

The editorial criticizes California's policy on the carbon emissions of transportation fuels used in the state as of October 2013, expressing the view that the policy unfairly advantages the state's fuel resources over those from other states or abroad and discussing litigation over the policy.

The article discusses an investigation as of September 2013 by the California Coastal Commission, a state regulatory body, of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Pacific Ocean along the California coast following criticism of the unregulated practice.

The author argues that an increase in outflow of population among of U.S. citizens in California may be attributed to environmental and non-environmental policies that restrict the growth of new wealth.

The author reflects on the economic implications of California's anti-global warming regulations signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006. He claims that the regulations have created a cap-and-trade system that will raise the cost of production inside California's borders. He argues that the regulations led the state into recession burdened by a costly global-warning plan. The author also comments on the basis for the environmental plan.

The article reports on the plan of U.S. President Barack Obama to call on the Environmental Protection Agency to let states including California to set their own automobile greenhouse-gas emission rules. Obama's plan is expected to start a war between the state officials who want control to regulate greenhouse-gas rules, and auto makers and unions who seek relief from their economic-recession woes. His plan includes directing the Department of Transportation to finish automobile fuel-economy standards by March 2009 to take effect for the model year 2011.

The article reports on the ban of older trucks in two California ports starting October 1, 2008. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will ban trucks made before 1989 and will also exclude trucks made before 2007 by 2012. The move, reportedly facing federal and regulatory opposition, may risk losing market share to ports in the Canada and the East Coast.

The article reports that former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official Jason Burnett is criticizing the decision of the agency on California's own environmental policies. The EPA has denied the request of California to implement its own regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. According to Burnett, such decision solely come from EPA administrator Stephen Johnson.

The author relates that Congressman Henry Waxman from Beverly Hills is criticizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not imposing sufficiently strict atmospheric ozone standards to protect his own's districts unacceptable pollution levels. States and cities such as California which have not met the clean air guidelines are losing factories to places that can. The author says that by making the clean air standards unachievable by almost all U.S. cities, the green issue will not enter in businesses' considerations when selecting a location.

The article focuses on the claim of top staffers at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its chief, Stephen Johnson, had no justification for denying the state of California the right to regulate greenhouse gases, according to EPA documents shown to Senate investigators. Automobile industry officials are said to oppose the state's efforts, saying it would be tantamount to letting states regulate fuel economy. The decision of Johnson has led to a lawsuit by California and other states seeking to overturn it.

Reports that the California Air Resources Board recommended delaying until 2005 sales quotas on zero-emission vehicles that were supposed to be adopted in 2003.

Looks at the revision of environmental policy In Southern California as a result of Unocal Corporation's attempts to sell its assets to Tosco Corporation. Amount assets could be sold for; Comments from a Unocal spokesman.

Focuses on the California Air Resources Board's reaction to the jump in gasoline prices caused by the state's stringent new environmental standards. Slow strangulation of America's oil refining industry by environmental regulation; Refinery sites as a dwindling resource; Continued growth in the demand for gasoline.