For years, California Gov. Jerry Brown has advocated for a pair of pricey tunnels that would divert water from the Sacramento River south to boost state supplies–and 2016 is shaping up to be the year of reckoning for the project.
Liberal geographer Joel Kotkin has compared Jerry Brown to 20th century fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini due to his interventionist policies on climate change.
Californians must contend with more than 800 laws, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown and taking effect in 2016.
Campus Carry for concealed carry permit holders becomes illegal on January 1, the same day on which police get expanded powers for firearm confiscation.
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor, Mary Fallin, wrote a December 9 letter to California Governor Jerry Brown thanking him for the help Caltrans officials have offered educating Oklahoma officials regarding earthquakes.
After reaching a settlement with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office over the massive natural gas leak near Porter Ranch, Southern California Gas Company is now under court order to pay up to $8,500 a month per household to evacuate and
Robert Downey, Jr. received an official pardon from California Gov. Jerry Brown on Christmas Eve for his 1996 drug conviction in the state.
California Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in San Bernardino County–more than two weeks after the December 2 terror attacks that took the lives of 14 people.
Affordable Texas housing played a key role in Toyota’s 2014 decision to move 3,000 jobs from California to Texas. The housing issue was seen by employees as a big factor in their willingness to relocate from Torrance, California, to Plano, Texas.
On Wednesday night, Governor Jerry Brown, in a hyperbolic rant, informed students and faculty at the Ecole Normale Superieure University in Paris that climate change could be compared to nuclear war.
While Jerry Brown sells climate change in Paris, the governor’s bullet train has derailed: some Democrats are withdrawing their support.
California Gov. Jerry Brown may think he has staked a position on the environment that will please the left, but he hasn’t gone far enough: groups that oppose fracking are targeting him in Paris on Wednesday afternoon with a protest at the Le Bourget conference site.
Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he “hears” the concerns of those who question the “science of climate change”–but he still “doesn’t give a ***” if you agree with him.
Governor Moonbeam (Jerry Brown) and The Governator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) united in Paris for an interview during the climate change summit, advising the world on helpful climate-saving tips–like unscrewing children’s light bulbs.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has now left California, still reeling from the San Bernardino terror attack, and has joined the United Nations in Paris to battle what President Barack Obama and others regard as possibly the real cause of terrorism: global climate change.
On Saturday, California Governor Jerry Brown (D) answered questions about the San Bernardino terror attack by pointing fingers at Arizona and Nevada, although the guns used in the terror attack were purchased legally in California.
Governor Jerry Brown insists that his request for the Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) to ascertain whether his 2,700-acre ranch lay atop an oil pool was motivated by a desire to obtain information about his ranch that he could store in a “glass case.”
California Gov. Jerry Brown is “playing president” at the UN climate change conference in Paris, according to veteran political prognosticator Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia.
SAN BERNARDINO — A day and-a-half after a mass shooting in San Bernardino that left 14 dead and over a dozen injured, local, state and federal officials privately briefed California Governor Jerry Brown near the scene before Brown and officials addressed the public Thursday evening.
California Gov. Jerry Brown is not yet canceling plans to attend the UN climate change conference in Paris, despite Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino. “We’ll update the advisory if there are schedule changes,”
In the middle of an active shooter situation, with dead bodies still warm, wounded victims still on the scene, and killers still on the run, Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton sought to exploit the mass shooting for political gain.
In an interview before jetting to Paris for the UN climate change conference with a large entourage in tow, California Gov. Jerry Brown said that Californians would need to adopt a “lighter, more elegant lifestyle” to save the planet from destruction.
Eight Democrat state legislators are joining California Gov. Jerry Brown at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week. Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) and Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) are leading the delegation.
As California Gov. Jerry Brown participates in the Paris climate change conference, the state official who played a key role in the ongoing oil scandal surrounding Brown’s office has resigned, the Sacramento Bee reported Monday.
California Gov. Jerry Brown may be strutting his stuff at the Paris climate change conference, but environmentalists are fuming over the exclusion of rooftop solar panels from the Golden State’s renewable energy plans.
As President Barack Obama departed for the climate summit in Paris, he faces a new “Solyndra” scandal as Spain’s Abengoa SA, which received $3 billion in administration sustainable energy loans and Export-Import Bank guarantees, announced that it has started bankruptcy proceeding and may soon default on its debt.
With a whistle-blower leveraging the scandal regarding use of state staff to apparently evaluate geological data for the profitability of “fracking” on his private land, California Governor “Big Oil Brown” is headed for the limelight at the Paris climate change summit.
Congress plans to hold hearings on California’s controversial Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed rail project, as estimates from the project’s lead contractor predicted significant cost overruns that the rail authority is attempting to deny.
Governor Jerry Brown of California has publicly ripped Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey for daring to challenge President Barack Obama’s agenda on climate change ahead of a UN conference in Paris.
As California suffers through a fourth year of record drought, one city in the Golden State has a unique problem: too much water.
Actor and environmental activist Mark Ruffalo will executive produce and narrate a new documentary challenging President Obama’s record on climate change and environmental policy.
Money that was being appropriated for use towards protecting California power plants from terror attacks is reportedly being held hostage as a consequence of a battle between the California Public Utilities Commission and state legislators over the appropriation of $5 million in legal fees stemming from a corruption investigation into the agency.
The CalPERS Board voted to refuse California Gov. Jerry Brown’s modest demand to decrease their expected pension investment returns by a tiny 0.2% year, because the impact would have increased pension contribution costs by about $1.2 billion across nearly 800,000 employees–about $125 per month, on average.
The number of penalties issued to water wasters during California’s record drought has decreased as most water agencies have successfully complied with a mandatory order to cut water use by 25 percent statewide. However, the state’s complex water management system has created a scenario in which individuals who have cut back the most are often fined, while rich super-users pay to consume as much water as they want.
California will suffer severe shortages, with or without a warmer planet. We need to act soon. Water policy may not generate flashy headlines, and politicians who lay the foundations for reform may not be in office ten or twenty years from now, when credit is handed out. But it can be done. Israel has shown us how.
On Wednesday, California Governor Jerry Brown balked at a blanket acceptance of Syrian refugees during a White House teleconference with fellow governors–despite his public protestations that he fully supports bringing the refugees to his state.
Data released by the U.S. Department of State’s Refugee Processing Center shows that since 2012, roughly 250 Syrian refugees have arrived in California, with about half of that number resettling in Sacramento and San Diego.
The San Francisco Chronicle, in an attack on those fearful that an influx of Syrian refugees might include potential terrorists, has pointed out that Governor Jerry Brown, now an advocate for accepting the refugees, opposed the influx of Vietnamese refugees in 1975.
On Monday, California Gov. Jerry Brown stated California would help accept Syrian refugees, and argued that they would be “fully vetted in a sophisticated and utterly reliable way.”
Republican leaders in California are stepping up calls for an investigation into Governor Jerry Brown’s potential misuse of state resources following the emergence of a whistleblower from within the state Department of Conservation.
