Adam Beam

Stay informed with Adam Beam’s coverage and analysis for Fortune.

Page 3 of 4

  • The Klamath River runs brown with mud after flash floods hitEnvironment

    $500 million dam removal restoring river that local tribes call ‘our church’ is the biggest in U.S. history

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • Gavin NewsomSuccess

    Gavin Newsom, worried about the billions lost from a Hollywood strike, says he can broker a deal between studios, actors and writers

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California on May 2, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    Gavin Newsom wants to fast-track huge water projects in California. Angry environmentalists respond by comparing him to ‘red state governors’

    By Adam Beam, Trân Nguyễn, and others
  • California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California on May 2, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    California’s budget deficit has ballooned to $32 billion due to a sagging stock market that’s hurting the 1%

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • Rob BontaPolitics

    The state of California is suing one of its own cities for blocking a housing project for homeless people in a quaint area called ‘Old Town’

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • Gavin NewsomPolitics

    Gavin Newsom and big business are rumbling with California Democrats who want to soak 2,500 large firms with $7.2 billion in new taxes

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • A Kia Sportage car is displayed during the 20th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition in Shanghai on April 19, 2023. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)Retail

    17 states urge federal government to recall Kia and Hyundai cars because they’re too easy to steal and ‘put the public at risk’

    By Adam Beam, Tom Krisher, and others
  • Marshmallow Peeps candy is on display at a store in Lafayette, Calif., on March 24, 2023. A California lawmaker wants to ban certain types of chemical additives in food dyes used in popular candies like Skittles and Peeps. They are already banned in the European Union based on public health concerns. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)Lifestyle

    California is trying to ban a chemical that gives Peeps their bright color because it has been linked to cancer

    By Haven Daley, Adam Beam, and others
  • A California gas station.Retail

    California lawmakers ‘stand up to Big Oil’ by passing bill that allows fines for price gouging at the pump

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • MAMMOTH LAKES, CA – MARCH 22: In an aerial view, heavy snow buries buildings as storms continue to increase the depth of the Sierra Nevada snowpack in the early days of spring on March 22, 2023 in Mammoth Lakes, California. Following the driest three-year stretch on record, a series of destructive, and sometimes deadly, atmospheric river storms has been sweeping over the state since early winter, bringing torrential rains, wide spread flooding and one of the snowiest winters on record in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The extreme precipitation of California’s so-called weather whiplash is bringing relief from years severe of extreme drought conditions across much of the state this year though experts warn that extreme weather swings may worsen as the climate continues to change. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)Environment

    ‘This is a good news moment’: Relentless rain and snow lets California ease water restrictions after three years of drought

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • FILE – California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference in National City, Calif., on March 19, 2023. Newsom has asked lawmakers to pass a bill that would empower regulators to penalize oil companies for price gouging at the pump. The bill has its first vote in the state Senate on Thursday, March 23, 2023. (Adriana Heldiz/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool, File)Finance

    California is taking a historic vote on whether to punish oil companies for price gouging at gas stations

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • Gavin NewsomEnvironment

    Gavin Newsom really wants to hit oil companies with a penalty for price gouging

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 01: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference on February 01, 2023 in Sacramento, California. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, state Attorney General Rob Bonta, state Senator Anthony Portantino (D-Burbank) and other state leaders announced SB2 – a new gun safety legislation that would establish stricter standards for Concealed Carry Weapon (CCW) permits to carry a firearm in public. The bill designates “sensitive areas,” like bars, amusement parks and child daycare centers where guns would not be allowed. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Health

    ‘We’re done’: California Gov. Gavin Newsom ends $54 million Walgreens contract over abortion pill dispute

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • Tesla semi trucks recharge at a charging station at the Frito-Lay production facility in Modesto, California, on Jan. 18, 2023. California is revisiting a statewide rule that prohibits self-driving semi-trucks but two lawmakers want to ensure there is always a driver behind the wheel. (Andy Alfaro/The Modesto Bee/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)Tech

    California explores allowing self-driving semitrucks despite stiff opposition: ‘You cannot program instinct into a computer’

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • A woman wades through floodwaters in California.Personal Finance

    California just got slammed with a series of severe storms but only about 2% of properties are covered by flood insurance

    By Michael Phillis, Adam Beam, and others