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How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit

Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.

By Dan Gearino

A solar farm is seen on June 17 near Rosamond, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images
The crop duster spraying a field is flying low in the direction of the photographer

Industry Interests Spent Big Money to Stop California From Banning PFAS Pesticides

By Liza Gross

Traffic moves along Interstate 405 in Los Angeles on Feb. 13. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Court Stalls EPA Plan to Override California’s Vehicle Pollution Standards

By Anika Jane Beamer

Sheep graze around solar panels in Saltillo, Texas, on May 28. Credit: Angela Piazza/The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images

These States Are Leading the Electricity Generation Boom

By Dan Gearino

H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies equipment sits next to the Bar 20 dairy farm in Kerman, Calif. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

California Dairy Farm’s New Biogas Project Makes History and Raises Eyebrows

By Steven Rodas

Farmworkers tend to a strawberry field covered in plastic on Aug. 5, 2022, near Ventura, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Can California Farmers Break Free From Plastic?

By Liza Gross

Construction crews remove the remaining pieces of the Iron Gate Dam, allowing the Klamath River to run in its original path near Hornbrook, Calif., on Aug. 28, 2024. Credit: Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

20,000 Salmon Return to the Klamath—but Challenging Conditions for Recovery Remain

By Claire Barber

People stand at the bottom of a boat ramp that now ends hundreds of feet above the water levels of Lake Powell on Aug. 18 near Page, Ariz. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

The Biggest Carbon Polluters Are to Blame for Half of U.S. Western Water Lost to Climate Change, ‘Groundbreaking’ Paper Says

By Jake Bolster

Boats are seen in the Boulder Basin of Lake Mead on July 25 in Nevada. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Fearing ‘Catastrophic Impacts’ From Water Cuts, Nevada Sues Feds Over Colorado River Plan

By Steven Rodas

Farmworkers weed a bell pepper field during a heat wave, in Camarillo, Calif., on July 3 2024. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

As Temperatures Get Hotter, Pesticides Are More Dangerous to Farmworkers

By Amy Green

Legendary farmworker activist Dolores Huerta speaks at a press conference in Sacramento before a legislative oversight hearing on the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

California Pesticide Agency Hopelessly Captured by Industry, Critics Charge

By Liza Gross

A firefighter faces a wall of flames as the Sandy Fire burns on May 19 in Simi Valley, Calif. Credit: Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images

California Officials Scrambled as Spring Wildfire Neared Former Nuclear Reactor Site, Emails Show

By Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz

Beachgoers gather at Windansea Beach in San Diego on June 20. Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images

Who Gets to Enjoy California’s Coast?

By Madeline Shaw

Janna Martin Gliatto moves cattle from one pasture to another near Montague, Calif. Martin Gliatto started working with Working Circle in 2022 to protect her ranch from wolves.

Can New Ranching Practices Help Cattle, Cowboys and Wolves Coexist?

Story and photos by Jake Bolster

A commercial fishing boat is seen off the coast of San Diego as the sun sets on July 5, 2025. Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images

This Year’s El Niño Could Spell Disaster for American Fishermen

By Johnny Sturgeon

Shirley Jackson sits for a photo in her SRO in San Francisco’s Seneca Hotel on Sixth Street. Jackson is experiencing health problems that are worsened by maintenance issues and pollution in her home. Credit: Neal Wong/San Francisco Public Press

State Vulnerability Metric Overlooks San Francisco Neighborhoods, Excluding Them From Billions in Funding

By Audrey Mei Yi Brown and Zhe Wu, San Francisco Public Press

Sea lions swim in the Pacific Ocean as birds fly above near Morro Bay, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Marine Sanctuaries Face Threats of New Trump-Backed Offshore Oil Leases

By Avril Silva

Can Tech Keep Whales Safe From Deadly Vessel Strikes?

By Kiley Price

Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, who represents the county where Marathon’s Martinez Renewables operates, visits striking workers in early May. Credit: Courtesy of USW Local 5

California Biofuel Refinery Workers Say Understaffing and Fatigue Threaten Their Safety and the Community

By Liza Gross

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