The Biden administration Tuesday announced it plans to offer leases for California’s first offshore wind areas, a 399-square-mile block off Morro Bay that could support 3 GW, and the Humboldt Call Area off Northern California, which it said is big enough for an additional 1.6 GW. The Morro Bay area...

Some California lawmakers want the woody biomass from forest thinning efforts to be used for electricity generation, after four years of catastrophic wildfires bathed the West Coast in smoke, with rural disasters choking major urban areas. The normally good air quality in the San Francisco Bay Area, for instance, was...