Energy and Climate Change

The San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority took a major step last week (June 29) toward placing a regional parcel tax measure on the June 2016 bal...

The Bay Area Council this week (June 23) released results of our region-wide 2015 Bay Area Council Poll, the only survey of its kind that provides ...

Bay Area residents think the region’s super-heated economy may be reaching a plateau, according to results of the 2015 Bay Area Council Poll rele...

With Sacramento awash in tax revenue, Gov. Jerry Brown told a full house of 600 Bay Area business leaders at the 2015 Outlook Conference on Thursda...

Education scored big in the May Budget Revise unveiled Thursday (May 15) by Gov. Jerry Brown. Here’s a quick look at a few specific budget areas ...

Today (May 8), at the Council’s Sacramento office, researchers from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute briefed Bay Area Caucus legislative s...

The state water board on Tuesday (May 5) approved the first-ever mandatory urban water use restrictions in California history, prompting the Bay Ar...

Bay Area Council President and CEO Jim Wunderman made the following statement in response to Gov. Jerry Brown's announcement of an Executive Order ...

The Bay Area Council today (April 29) issued the following statement in response to Gov. Jerry Brown’s announcement of an Executive Order setting...

From drought to deluge, California and the Bay Area can expect increasingly dramatic weather swings as the effects of climate change become more pr...