ICN California

LA Wildfire Survivors Want to Rebuild All-Electric, but a Utility Is Using Customer Funds to Incentivize Gas Appliances

California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.

By Hilary Beaumont

New Analysis Provides More Evidence That Heat Standards Save Lives

By Liza Gross

Growing Tensions with Air Regulator Lead Top California Environmental Justice Advisor to Resign

By Blanca Begert

Trump’s Plans to Expand Offshore Drilling Meet Bipartisan Opposition

By Keerti Gopal

California Is Finally Updating Its Methane Landfill Rule

By Liza Gross

As Seas Rise, So Do the Risks From Toxic Sites

By Liza Gross

An Oil Company Running Into Rough Waters off the California Coast Is Looking to Trump for Help

By Blanca Begert

For Many Disabled Fire Victims in Los Angeles, a Continuing Trauma

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

Why Are Rates Rising Faster at Investor-Owned Utilities Than at Public Utilities?

By Blanca Begert

Taking Stock in Altadena Nine Months After the Devastating LA Fires

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

As EPA Stalls, States Are Left to Handle Solar Panel Waste

By Rambo Talabong

Rising Electric Rates Tied to Distribution Spending, Disasters and Some Clean Energy Programs, Study Says

By Blanca Begert

The US-Mexico Border Wall May Pose Perils to Pollinators

By Tina Deines

The AI Data Center Boom Comes to Southeast LA

By Ashley Orona, LA Public Press

Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard

By Marianne Lavelle

As Colorado River Nears Collapse, It Faces Leadership, Transparency ‘Crisis,’ Environmentalists Warn

By Wyatt Myskow

A Debate Heats Up over California’s ‘Zone Zero’ Rules to Cut Home Losses to Flammable Vegetation

By Blanca Begert

Farmworkers in the Hottest Part of California Find State Funds to Cool Their Homes and Save on Energy

By Twilight Greenaway

Proposal to Undo Roadless Rule Would Open Some of Southern California’s Last Wild Forests to Development

By Wyatt Myskow