ICN California

Feds Will Soon Impose New Framework on Colorado River if States Can’t Agree How to Manage It

Amid the river’s worst water year on record and deadlocked negotiations over its future, the Bureau of Reclamation announced it will impose a new 10-year management plan if the states relying on the river don’t come to an agreement.

By Wyatt Myskow

California Pesticide Regulators Say New Rules Protect Communities as Applications of a Dangerous Fumigant Rise

By Liza Gross

Colorado River Faces ‘Devastating Consequences’ If Another Dry Winter Lands, Experts Warn

By Jake Bolster

Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season

By Peter Aldhous

Air Monitors Used in California Tank Crisis Were Inadequate in the Past, Leaving Returning Residents Uneasy

By Steven Rodas

USDA Extends Pause on Loans for Controversial Digesters That Turn Manure Into Biogas

By Steven Rodas, Lisa Sorg

Six Months After Oil Spilled Into California Tributary, Families Worry the Cleanup Was Never Finished

By Steven Rodas

As Wildfire Grows Near Ex-Nuclear Site, California County Sets Up Radiation Air Monitors

By Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz

Prescribed Burns and Forest Thinning Averted Millions of Tons of Emissions and Billions in Damages

By Steven Rodas

Wildfire Crews Race to Keep Fierce California Blaze From Former Nuclear Reactor Site

By Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz

Smog, Lies and Pineapples: How LA Cleaned up Its Air and What’s Left to Do

By Steven Rodas

California’s Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants. Here’s What’s on the Horizon.

By Claire Barber

California Will Soon Have More Than 300 Data Centers. Where Will They Get Their Water?

By Steven Rodas

As Climate Disasters Create an Insurance Crisis, a California Bill Seeks to Make Fossil Fuel Companies Pay

By Steven Rodas

Climate Activists Stage Mock Funeral for Landmark Climate Rule

By Liza Gross

California’s Climate Leaders Talk Clean Energy Growing Pains and the War on Iran

By Claire Barber

California Bill Aims to Keep Toxic PFAS off Its Crops

By Liza Gross

Which State Leads in Battery Energy Storage? It Depends on How You Measure.

By Dan Gearino

A New Wine Label Promotes Workers’ Rights

By Liza Gross