Vince Dixon

The bill sent Uber and Lyft scrambling, and it might reshape business in the entertainment industry.

Climate change is an existential crisis. If Americans cut just one hamburger from their diet every week, it would be like taking 10 million cars off the road every year. After cutting energy use, less meat and more plant-based food add up to the easiest--and healthiest--way to reduce your carbon footprint. From the land and water needed to raise feed and the methane produced at the end of digestion, “Cattle are actually mini fossil-fuel, greenhouse gas producers.” So says Sujatha Bergen, head of health campaigns at the NRDC. As her title suggests, eliminating beef from your diet--in addition to pork and lamb-- is also better for you. She explains the trade-offs for helping to reduce climate change and says, “Starting with your fork is much less daunting for many people.”

Over the past year, China has almost stopped accepting America’s recyclables. More than 200 recycling centers in California closed last month.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t stand at the center of the world, as long as you can convince people that you do.

Absolute immunity, executive privilege, crony privilege?

Scientists hope to reduce whale fatalities from ship collisions by using a new sound technology that detects when the endangered animals are present, and then alerts cargo ships to…

President Trump is in California today and Wednesday, and he's likely to address homelessness.

Nearly 80% of California schools have tested for lead in their drinking fountains. Of those, one in five school sites found lead levels of more than five parts per billion (ppb).

Some 40% percent of recycling centers in California have closed in the last five years, while there's more plastic production, and much of it is for one-time use.