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Nicholas Spada Spent Months Analyzing Smoke From the LA Fires. He Thinks People Have a Right to Know, and ‘Air Is Everything.’

One of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear X-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke, Spada is alarmed by what he found.

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

Nicholas Spada stands in front of an instument panel at UC Davis’ Crocker Nuclear Laboratory with a radiation exposure monitor prominently pinned to his shirt’s pocket on March 25.
A view of the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 2016, where natural gas had been leaking from the Aliso Canyon storage facility since Oct. 23, 2015. Credit: Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images

Toxic Plumes from Aliso Canyon Gas Blowout Harmed Babies, Study Shows

By Liza Gross

The construction site of a high-speed rail viaduct near Highway 43 south of Corcoran, Calif. Credit: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/Grist

Billions Spent, Miles To Go: The Story of California’s Failure To Build High-Speed Rail

By Benton Graham, Grist

Mira Shah, who recently started a student-run climate economics journal, at her father’s office in Dublin, Calif. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

California Teen Starts an Online Journal on the Power of Economics to Confront Climate Change

By Liza Gross

Glad Tidings’ founder, Bishop Jerry Macklin and one of the church’s new EV charging stations. Credit: Courtesy of Glad Tidings

A California Network of Black Churches Is Embracing Solar Energy, EV Charging

By Nicole J. Caruth

Farmworkers pick strawberries in a field on June 12 in Oxnard, Calif. Credit: Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

California Updates Pesticide Alert System

By Liza Gross

Hydrocarbon storage tanks—like this one in the backyard of a home in Arvin, Calif., and next to a playground—pose a disproportionate health risk when they leak. In addition to the climate super-pollutant methane, they emit a cocktail of toxic gases, including the carcinogen benzene. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

New Tool Maps the Health Impacts of Toxic Air Pollutants Released With Methane in Super-Emitter Events

By Liza Gross

Birds fly near the Phillips 66 refinery in L.A.’s Wilmington neighborhood. The facility is slated to close by the end of the year. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

There’s a ‘Lake’ of Oil Under LA’s Soon-to-Close Refinery. Who’s Going to Clean It Up?

By Aaron Cantú, Capital & Main

Val Verde and Castaic residents call for the Chiquita Canyon Landfill to be closed during a protest in Castaic, Calif., on Feb. 22, 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door

By Liza Gross

A foreman for the solar company Sunrun installs a 215-pound lithium-ion battery at a home in Granada Hills, Calif., on Jan. 4, 2020. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Virtual Power Plants Showed Up for Their Biggest Test Yet. Here Are the Results

By Dan Gearino

Then Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 29, 2006, as states argued against the EPA’s inaction on global warming. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images

Will Endangerment Finding Repeal Trigger New State Actions on Climate?

By Marianne Lavelle

Firefighters battle flames from the Canyon Fire on Aug. 7 in Castaic, Calif. Credit: Eric Thayer/Getty Images

Canyon Wildfire in Los Angeles Forces Thousands to Evacuate

By Keerti Gopal

Congressman Mark DeSaulnier speaks to his constituents during a town hall meeting in 2019, similar to the one he held on Thursday. Credit: Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images.

California Congressman Vows to Challenge Trump’s ‘Big Ugly Bill’

By Liza Gross

Vehicles move slowly through midtown Manhattan traffic in New York City on June 6, 2024. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

As California’s Emissions Rules Faces Court Battles, States Scramble To Save Their Climate Goals

By Rambo Talabong

Strawberry fields stretch for miles in all directions in Monterey County. Legacy pesticides and fertilizers used to grow the berries has made the tap water unfit to drink for local residents. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

Violating California Residents’ Right to Water

By Liza Gross

A Pacific Gas & Electric gas meter and utility infrastructure sits next to a building in the San Francisco Bay Area. Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

In California, a Push to Decommission Gas Lines in Low-Income Neighborhoods Moves Forward

By Twilight Greenaway

A construction worker takes a break to wipe his brow while digging a trench amidst a heat wave in Irvine, Calif., on Sept. 5, 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

US Labor Advocates Demand Heat Protections for Workers as Planet Warms

By Liza Gross

Mark Ellis, a former Sempra Corp. executive who has made an unusual shift and become a consumer advocate, poses on a bluff overlooking Scripps Pier at U.C. San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which is near his home. Credit: David Poller/Inside Climate News

A Former California Utility Exec Explains Why Your Electricity Bills Are So High

By Dan Gearino

California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks during a town hall event with other West Coast state attorneys general to discuss protecting democracy in Seattle on June 2. Credit: Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images

California Sues Trump Administration Over Right to Clean Air

By Liza Gross

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