ICN California

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

In “Smog and Sunshine,” UCLA’s Ann Carlson tells of the scientists, lawyers, government officials and community members behind the decades-long effort to clear Southern California skies.

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

There Are 10 Million Tons of Manure Missing in California

Seth Millstein, Sentient

Summer in March? Unusual Heat Wave Descends on Already Parched Western U.S.

By Kiley Price

California Water Board Will Soon Release a New Rule to Limit Water Pollution From Dairies in the State

By Blanca Begert

Texas Seizes the Solar Crown From California, and Other Key Points From the Latest Electricity Data

By Dan Gearino

First Confirmed Cases of Bird Flu in California Elephant Seals Stoke Fear As Virus Surges Worldwide

By Kiley Price

Why Electricity Bills Are So High—and How the Blowback Could Hit Trump

By Dan Gearino, Marianne Lavelle

States Sue to Block Trump’s ‘Anti-Science’ Vaccine Policy

By Liza Gross

Whale Entanglements in Fishing Gear Surge Off U.S. West Coast During Marine Heatwaves

By Teresa Tomassoni

California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution

By Blanca Begert

California Explores First-Time Regulation on Dairy Methane Emissions

By Blanca Begert