Maliya V. Ellis

2 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Maliya V. Ellis

Former vice president Al Gore will deliver the keynote speech at San Francisco’s week-long climate summit later this month, organizers announced. The longtime climate advocate and Nobel Peace Prize winner is scheduled to speak on April 21 at the welcome ceremony of SF Climate Week, a climate solutions conference organized by nonprofit Climatebase and held annually around Earth Day. The ceremony will be hosted at the Exploratorium on the Embarcadero.

3 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Maliya V. Ellis

State Farm General has requested a major rate hike to an insurance program that offers extra liability coverage, which could raise premiums for more than 430,000 policyholders if approved. The company is seeking to raise rates by 39% for the California Personal Liability Umbrella Program, which provides additional coverage for legal liabilities like steep attorney's fees from a car accident or damages from a defamation lawsuit.

4 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Maliya V. Ellis

Sixty-two California grants are on a list of 400 the Environmental Protection Agency has targeted for termination, according to an internal filing obtained by Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on Wednesday and reviewed by the Chronicle. If terminated, grantees including several Bay Area nonprofits and local governments could lose access to millions in funding previously authorized under the Inflation Reduction Act, passed by former President Joe Biden.

4 weeks ago | fresnobee.com | Shira Stein |Maliya V. Ellis |Molly Burke

The Trump administration's escalating threats against demonstrators targeting Tesla dealerships don't appear to have deterred Bay Area protesters. Some organizers told the Chronicle that attendance and interest have continued to grow despite - or perhaps because of - Trump's rhetoric. Some, however, say they're taking new precautions in response to the administration's focus on protests against the company, where Musk is CEO.

1 month ago | sfchronicle.com | Maliya V. Ellis

BAKERSFIELD - Rep. Ro Khanna told hundreds of voters at a town hall Sunday to mobilize against Republican priorities like slashing funding for Medicaid and other federal services. It was a standard message coming from a Democrat like Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley. But Khanna was in Kern County, where a majority of voters - and the member of Congress whose district Khanna was speaking in - are Republican.