After the courts squashed its first-in-the-nation natural gas ban, the city of Berkeley, California, has emerged with a new strategy to curb the planet-warming fossil fuel: taxing large buildings that ...

The latest city filing in the case is the sharpest condemnation to date of Berkeley Police Accountability Board director ...

BERKELEY, Calif. - The city of Berkeley lost its latest legal battle to enforce a ban on natural gas pipes in new construction. On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied ...

The City of Berkeley, California, agreed to stop enforcing — and work to repeal — a landmark climate rule banning natural gas hookups in new construction, ending a nearly four-year court battle to ...

This story by Akielly Hu was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On Tuesday, a federal appeals court decided not to revisit its earlier decision to strike down ...

When Berkeley became the first U.S. city to ban construction of new natural gas lines in 2019, it pioneered an approach to reducing carbon emissions and pollutants that has since spread around the Bay ...

Activists watch over People's Park in early January as word spread that UC Berkeley planned to wall off the storied space as part of a broader plan to make way for student housing. (Jason Armond / Los ...

After a three-judge panel ruled that cities do not have the authority to ban the installation of natural gas equipment in newly constructed buildings, Berkeley is now asking for a do-over. Berkeley ...

A court decision overturning a ban on natural gas installations in new homes and buildings in Berkeley is scrambling attempts by communities in the San Diego area that enacted similar ordinances or ...

BERKELEY — The California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that UC Berkeley can proceed with its controversial plan to build high-rise student housing on the site of storied People’s Park just south of ...