California, New York poised to raise minimum wage to $15
By ALISON NOON and JONATHAN J. COOPER California and New York are poised to become the highest-paid minimum-wage states in the nation after their governors each reached deals with lawmakers…
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Hamstrung by Congress, Obama tries to clinch climate pact
By JOSH LEDERMAN and SETH BORENSTEIN President Barack Obama is trying to negotiate a legacy-making climate change pact this coming week in Paris with one hand tied behind his back.…
Investment treaty between China and US key business goal
By GENE JOHNSON and PHUONG LE When Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses a meeting of some of the top names in Chinese and American business Wednesday, they may be most…
Fired regulator: Brown pushed to waive oil safeguards.
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER California’s top oil and gas regulators repeatedly warned Gov. Jerry Brown’s senior aides in 2011 that the governor’s orders to override key safeguards in granting oil industry…
Argentine mayor: Pope Francis is game-changer for climate
The latest developments at the Vatican’s meeting of mayors on fighting climate change and human trafficking. All times local. ___ 4:25 p.m. Monica Fein came all the way from Pope…
Land agency: Agent’s gun may have been used in pier slaying
By PAUL ELIAS The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is investigating whether an agent’s gun was used in the shooting death of a woman walking on a popular San Francisco…
New York to ban fracking; environmentalists cheer
By MARY ESCH Handing environmentalists a breakthrough victory, New York plans to prohibit fracking for natural gas because of what regulators say are its unexplored health risks and dubious economic…
New York to ban fracking; environmentalists cheer
By MARY ESCH Handing environmentalists a breakthrough victory, New York plans to prohibit fracking for natural gas because of what regulators say are its unexplored health risks and dubious economic…