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Senate bill 260, the Climate Corporate Accountability Act, is for companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue that do business in the state.    The idea is to let the public see each company’s emissions in their core operations along with some that are indirect. “Like from their supply chain their employees commutes and other ways that these corporations are generating carbon emissions,” said Robert Lapsley, president of the California Business Roundtable. “We all support c...

USA TODAY Im Winston Gieseke, philanthropy and special sections editor for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, with the latest California news on this Wednesday. In California brings you top Golden State stories and commentary from across the USA TODAY Network and beyond. Get it free, straight to your inbox. California offers COVID-19 vaccines to people 65 and over The move puts seniors in line along with emergency workers, teachers, childcare providers and food and agriculture workers even as coun...

In California: State offers vaccines to all 65+; EDD fraud is worse than thought Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY Im Winston Gieseke, philanthropy and special sections editor for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, with the latest California news on this Wednesday. In California brings you top Golden State stories and commentary from across the USA TODAY Network and beyond. Get it free, straight to your inbox. California offers COVID-19 vaccines to people 65 and over The move puts seniors...

Legitimate claimants are being mistaken for scammers. "Theyre trained to tell me absolutely zero information because I could be potentially a scammer," said Ben Chrimes of San Jose. "They cut the card off. They didnt even allow me to get my money that they had already given to me on the card," Roxzan Macon of Hesperia told us. Yet people who dont deserve the money are getting it. Bank of America said last month $2 billion had been paid out in fraudulent unemployment claims. But Robert Lapsley o...

Emotional roller coaster for jobless man during pandemic ends on a high note KGO Share: OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The latest numbers show state jobless rate at 8.2 percent, but that number is likely to increase with the recent state shutdown. We followed the journey of one long-time unemployed Oakland man for months. His story may give hope to others. Black has been unemployed since last year. He worked in the film industry, but an injury made it impossible to carry around his heavy video camera...

Technology and Innovation It’s hard to say the word “innovation” and not think of California. Technology has paced the state’s growth in everything from agriculture and oil to housing, entertainment, and aerospace. California has always been the harbinger of the American future, the promise of ever-greater economic and social progress. Yet increasingly, many of today’s innovators are fleeing the state. This past week, one half of the company arguably most symbolic of tech development ...

Los Angeles County's health director acted "arbitrarily'' and didn't prove the danger to the public when she banned outdoor dining at restaurants as