A bill assigning oil companies with legal responsibility for big fires lost in its first legislative test in Sacramento, for fear consumers would pay.

Chris Hannan, the trades council’s president, said union members feared SB 222 would have a ... would have allowed victims to ...

SB 222, according to Weiner, would ensure that oil companies pay for “the climate ... CA less affordable,” Weiner added. “That has to change.” The bill would allow victims of fires and ...

If SB 222 isn’t the solution to the insurance crisis, then what is? And for climate change, does the environmental community have a rallying cry other than its opposition to Big Oil, as our ...