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

Premiums “have gone through the roof” and insurers have been leaving the state as the costs of disasters soar amid worsening extreme weather.

By Steven Rodas

Misty Cheng looks at flood damage to her home in Wrightwood, Calif., on Dec. 25, 2025. Credit: Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
“Lamentors” wear sackcloth and ash, mourning the Trump administration’s decision to overturn a landmark climate regulation rule, outside EPA Region 9 headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday. Credit: ProBonoPhoto.org/Rachel Podlishevsky

Climate Activists Stage Mock Funeral for Landmark Climate Rule

By Liza Gross

A lithium-ion battery is installed at a home in Granada Hills, Calif. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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

By Claire Barber

A farmworker harvests strawberries in a field on March 31 near Oxnard, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Bill Aims to Keep Toxic PFAS off Its Crops

By Liza Gross

Technicians check equipment at a battery energy storage system in Daggett, Calif. Credit: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

A worker picks leaves from the conveyor belt of a harvester during grape harvest on a vineyard in Lodi, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2025. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

A New Wine Label Promotes Workers’ Rights

By Liza Gross

Curious Holstein dairy cows feed on silage in a freestall barn at a large California dairy.

There Are 10 Million Tons of Manure Missing in California

Seth Millstein, Sentient

People spend time on Crissy Field Beach during warm weather in San Francisco on March 11. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

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

By Kiley Price

Cows wait to be milked at a dairy farm in Escalon, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

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

By Blanca Begert

An aerial view of a solar farm in Ector County, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

An elephant seal shares the beach with pelicans and other shorebirds at Año Nuevo State Park in Pescadero, Calif., on Dec. 20, 2018. Credit: Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

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

By Kiley Price

Morgan Harper, a community organizer and former U.S. Senate candidate, speaks at a protest in January outside the offices of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio in Columbus, urging officials to reject a rate increase from the local utility. Credit: George Shillcock/WOSU

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

By Dan Gearino, Marianne Lavelle

A child receives a standard immunization at a pediatric office on Sept. 15, 2025, in Coral Gables, Fla. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

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

By Liza Gross

A trained team from the West Coast Large Whale Entanglement Response Program works to free an entangled gray whale off the coast of Orange County, Calif., in December 2017. Credit: West Coast Marine Mammal Stranding Network

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

By Teresa Tomassoni

An aerial view of a DM hog farm, one of the farms sending methane gas to the Align RNG processing facility in Turkey, N.C. A digester covers a manure lagoon on the left and the digester waste is sent to the open lagoon on the right. Credit: Kemp Burdette

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

By Blanca Begert

Cattle are seen at a dairy farm in Porterville, Calif. Credit: David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images

California Explores First-Time Regulation on Dairy Methane Emissions

By Blanca Begert

A view of the Chevron Richmond Refinery in Contra Costa County, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Mapping Unequal Climate Risks in a Northern California County

By Liza Gross

Cars drive over the Central Arizona Canal, which delivers Colorado River water to Central and Southern Arizona, on Dec. 19, 2025. Credit: Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack

By Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

Narwhals rely on echolocation to survive in the Arctic. But increasing shipping noise is jeopardizing their ability to communicate, navigate and hunt. Credit: naturepl.com/Doug Allen/WWF

As the Arctic Grows Noisier, Narwhals Are Becoming Quieter

By Teresa Tomassoni

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