Energy and Climate Change

For centuries, California’s indigenous residents used small, controlled fires to manage vegetation growth in forests and wildland areas as a way ...

How will the Bay Area pay for defending its shoreline from rising sea levels? How can we speed projects to ensure action isn’t bogged down by dec...

With record wildfires again sweeping California and state and federal agencies struggling to manage California’s 33 million acres of overgrown an...

The Bay Area Council Foundation on Monday, July 12 launched the official request for proposals for the California Resilience Challenge 2021 Grant P...

The Bay Area Council Foundation today launched the official request for proposals for the California Resilience Challenge 2021 Grant Program, a sta...

The record budget Gov. Newsom signed last week includes nearly $8 billion for unspecified climate resilience, drought, and wildfire prevention prog...

Assemblymember Kevin Mullin (San Mateo) joined the Bay Area Council’s Water and Climate Resilience Committee recently for a discussion on AB 1500...

The Bay Area Council met recently with senior members of the Newsom Administration to discuss ways the private sector can help reduce the risk of c...

California’s hotter and drier climate, paired with a century of fire mismanagement, has created an explosive combination that has contributed to ...

This is the last in a series of profiles of the 12 winners of the California Resilience Challenge, a first-of-its-kind statewide initiative of...