If there is a philosophy behind the president's policy other than his reflexive impulse to nullify his predecessor, it's that corporations should decide how they're regulated. That the automakers can't agree on an answer reveals the folly of this ideology.
Gov. Gavin Newsom made it official in declaring a statewide emergency to make additional resources available. But no one in the vast area affected by evacuations and blackouts had to be told they were living in a disaster zone.
Fifty years after the Santa Barbara oil spill, we can trace how that crisis shaped California institutions, attitudes and relationships with the environment.
Beginning Wednesday, business and political leaders will showcase their detailed plans at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. The challenging promises and boldface names are badly needed.
Scott Pruitt's eternally awaited exit says less about the Trump administration than its lasting enthusiasm for an Environmental Protection Agency chief who accumulated a baker's dozen of ethics investigations.
Scott Pruitt's only tenuous claim to environmental protection concerns a sort of wetland preservation - namely, his immense contributions to the ethical swamp President Trump promised to drain.
