Energy and Climate Change

As world leaders reached an historic global climate change accord this week (Dec. 12) in Paris, the Bay Area Council continues its work on regional...

The Bay Area Council is taking dead aim at solving the region’s crisis-level housing and traffic problems with a 2016 policy agenda adopted this ...

Council Chair Michael Covarrubias called for a moment of silence at yesterday’s (Dec. 3) Board of Directors meeting to honor beloved Bay Area bus...

The University of California’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) will establish a new global innovat...

The Bay Area Council welcomed Ambassador Ron Kirk, former U.S. Trade Representative under President Obama, for a discussion on the TPP, overall tra...

Under California's seemingly endless drought, what projects are needed to drought-proof the Bay Area’s water supply? That was among the topics th...

Even as legislation to raise California's renewable energy targets faltered this week, big questions loom about how California is going to incorpor...

The threat to the Bay Area of an overdue extreme storm comes into sharp, graphic focus in a new video released last week (Aug. 26) by a coalition o...

Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman (who asked that we not run this story - sorry Jim!) on Tuesday (Aug. 25) was named to what has become THE List i...

California is learning a hard lesson about inadequate drought preparation. But if California’s hydrological record teaches us anything, it’s th...