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A Mono Lake sunset in 2019. Credit: Paul Reiffer

How Decades of Hard-Earned Protections and Restoration Reversed the Collapse of California’s Treasured Mono Lake

By Bob Berwyn

Torched cars sit amid the cinders and ash that remain from the Lincoln Heights neighborhood below the Roseburg Forest Products lumber mill and Mount Shasta in Weed, California. The Mill Fire destoyed the historic Black neighborhood in early September. Credit: Michael Kodas

A Timber Mill Below Mount Shasta Gave Rise to a Historic Black Community, and Likely Sparked the Wildfire That Destroyed It

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

A tractor moves a pile of recyclables at the San Francisco Recycling Center April 22, 2008 in San Francisco, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Passed a Landmark Law About Plastic Pollution. Why Are Some Environmentalists Still Concerned?

By James Bruggers

An active oil drilling rig is located in a housing community next to homes on Sept. 21, 2022 in Signal Hill, California. Credit: Allison Dinner/Getty Images

Oil Industry Moves to Overturn Historic California Drilling Protection Law

By Liza Gross

A sign advocating water conservation in San Anselmo, California, is posted in a field of dry grass in April 2021. That summer, Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the state's residents to voluntarily cut water use by 15 percent. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.

Amid Punishing Drought, California Is Set to Adopt Rules to Reduce Water Leaks. The Process has Lagged

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Guadalupe Ruiz, 25, leads an all-women wildland fire crew back to their training center in Yosemite National Park in August 2022. Credit: Jennifer Emerling for The 19th

This Program is Blazing a Trail for Women in Wildland Firefighting

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th

¿Por qué permiten que las compañías petroleras de California, asolada por la sequía, usen agua dulce?

By Liza Gross

Steve Shehadey and Sarah Dean in the milking barn of Bar 20 Dairy Farm. Credit: Grace van Deelen

California’s ‘Most Sustainable’ Dairy is Doing What’s Best for Business

By Grace van Deelen

Lorraine Capolungo near the site of her mobile home in the Creekside Mobile Home Park, which burned in the Cache Fire in Clearlake, California. Credit: Michael Kodas

Mobile Homes, the Last Affordable Housing Option for Many California Residents, Are Going Up in Smoke

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

The Windy Fire blazes through the Long Meadow Grove of giant sequoia trees near The Trail of 100 Giants overnight in Sequoia National Forest on Sept. 21, 2021 near California Hot Springs, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

In California, a Race to Save the World’s Largest Trees From Megafires

By Twilight Greenaway

Dairy cows at Bar 20 line up in the feedlot. Credit: Grace van Deelen

Expansion of a Lucrative Dairy Digester Market is Sowing Environmental Worries in the U.S.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen

Steve Shehadey, owner of Bar 20 Dairy Farm, walks through the feedlot on his farm. Credit: Grace van Deelen

Just Two Development Companies Drive One of California’s Most Controversial Climate Programs: Manure Digesters

By Grace van Deelen, Emma Foehringer Merchant

Dairy cows have just been milked in Bar 20's milking barn. Credit: Grace van Deelen

California Has Provided Incentives for Methane Capture at Dairies, but the Program May Have ‘Unintended Consequences’

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen

Wastewater from oil operations is often dumped into unlined pits, a practice that has contaminated protected groundwater in Kern County and other oil-producing areas in California. Credit: Liza Gross

Drought-Wracked California Allows Oil Companies to Use High-Quality Water. But Regulators’ Error-Strewn Records Make Accurate Accounting Nearly Impossible

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

Una bomba extrae petróleo crudo justo detrás de la ventana del dormitorio de Yesinia Martínez, quien ha tenido problemas de salud, la mayoría relacionados con la extracción de petróleo y gas, desde que era pequeña. Crédito: Liza Gross

Cuando tu vecino es un pozo de petróleo

By Liza Gross

A bumblebee hangs on a still-red blueberry. Credit: Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images

Extreme Heat Poses an Emerging Threat to Food Crops

By Liza Gross

Kyle Ferrar of FracTracker Alliance has documented emissions of the climate super-pollutant methane and hazardous air contaminants drifting from this oil well site toward the Grow Academy K-8 school in Arvin, California. Credit: Liza Gross

California Passes Law Requiring Buffer Zones for New Oil and Gas Wells

By Liza Gross

Traffic backs up at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza on Aug. 24, 2022 in Oakland, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Just Banned Gas-Powered Cars. Here’s Everything You Need to Know

By Dan Gearino

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