David Bernhardt is backing a plan to raise the height of the Shasta Dam in California even though his department’s experts have warned against the change.

In the Trump administration’s latest jab at California, the Environmental Protection Agency is saying the state is not protecting its water quality.

Saying California has the worst air quality in the country, the E.P.A. chief fires the latest salvo in an escalating battle over clean air and states’ rights.

California, joined by 23 other states, sued to block the administration’s unprecedented reversal of the state’s authority to set its own rules on climate-warming car emissions.

The administration’s plan has been assailed by California officials and environmental advocates as an attack on states’ rights and on a major policy to fight climate change.

The move, expected Wednesday, would ***** California of its special authority to set tougher rules on car emissions. 

The bill, if signed by the governor, would mark a new way of giving women access to abortion as conservative states tighten restrictions.

Lobbying by celebrity opponents has drawn national attention to a measure that would make medical exemptions to vaccination harder to get.