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Val Verde and Castaic residents call for the Chiquita Canyon Landfill to be closed during a protest in Castaic, Calif., on Feb. 22, 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door

By Liza Gross

A foreman for the solar company Sunrun installs a 215-pound lithium-ion battery at a home in Granada Hills, Calif., on Jan. 4, 2020. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Virtual Power Plants Showed Up for Their Biggest Test Yet. Here Are the Results

By Dan Gearino

Then Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 29, 2006, as states argued against the EPA’s inaction on global warming. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images

Will Endangerment Finding Repeal Trigger New State Actions on Climate?

By Marianne Lavelle

Firefighters battle flames from the Canyon Fire on Aug. 7 in Castaic, Calif. Credit: Eric Thayer/Getty Images

Canyon Wildfire in Los Angeles Forces Thousands to Evacuate

By Keerti Gopal

Congressman Mark DeSaulnier speaks to his constituents during a town hall meeting in 2019, similar to the one he held on Thursday. Credit: Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images.

California Congressman Vows to Challenge Trump’s ‘Big Ugly Bill’

By Liza Gross

Vehicles move slowly through midtown Manhattan traffic in New York City on June 6, 2024. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

As California’s Emissions Rules Faces Court Battles, States Scramble To Save Their Climate Goals

By Rambo Talabong

Strawberry fields stretch for miles in all directions in Monterey County. Legacy pesticides and fertilizers used to grow the berries has made the tap water unfit to drink for local residents. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

Violating California Residents’ Right to Water

By Liza Gross

A Pacific Gas & Electric gas meter and utility infrastructure sits next to a building in the San Francisco Bay Area. Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

In California, a Push to Decommission Gas Lines in Low-Income Neighborhoods Moves Forward

By Twilight Greenaway

A construction worker takes a break to wipe his brow while digging a trench amidst a heat wave in Irvine, Calif., on Sept. 5, 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

US Labor Advocates Demand Heat Protections for Workers as Planet Warms

By Liza Gross

Mark Ellis, a former Sempra Corp. executive who has made an unusual shift and become a consumer advocate, poses on a bluff overlooking Scripps Pier at U.C. San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which is near his home. Credit: David Poller/Inside Climate News

A Former California Utility Exec Explains Why Your Electricity Bills Are So High

By Dan Gearino

California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks during a town hall event with other West Coast state attorneys general to discuss protecting democracy in Seattle on June 2. Credit: Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images

California Sues Trump Administration Over Right to Clean Air

By Liza Gross

Winter Reign (center) and Brendan Armm (right) regroup with their children, River and Leaf, as they clean their Pacific Palisades home on April 6 after it sustained smoke and soot damage from the Los Angeles wildfires.

A Neighborhood Burned, a Home Saved, a Future in Question

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

A groundwater pump supplies water to Quechan tribal land at the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, along the Colorado River, on May 26, 2023, near Winterhaven, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Colorado River Basin Aquifers Are Declining Even More Steeply Than the River, New Research Shows

By Wyatt Myskow

Parham Azimi, a Harvard University researcher, checks an outdoor air monitor which has been collecting samples for the last week outside Nicole Bryne’s house on April 1 in Pasadena, Calif. Credit: Nina Dietz/Inside Climate News

After the LA Fires, Scientists Study the Toxic Hazards Left Behind

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

An aerial view of traffic on a smoggy day in Los Angeles in January 1985. Credit: Ernst Haas/Getty Images

Republicans Flout Law and Precedent to Kill California’s Right to Clean Air

By Liza Gross

Adriana has been farming for over 20 years, migrating from Oaxaca, Mexico, to Oxnard, Calif. Adriana has suffered serious falls multiple times, and can feel her lungs weakening year by year. Credit: Rambo Talabong/Inside Climate News

In California, Flawed Air Rules Threaten Farmworkers as Wildfires Pump More Smoke Onto Fields

By Rambo Talabong

A bystander watches a fire burn at the Vistra Corp. battery storage plant on Jan. 17 in Moss Landing, Calif. Credit: Doug Duran/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

Researchers Wanted to Understand Concerns With Batteries in Moss Landing, California. Their Funding Just Got Yanked

By Dan Gearino

A toxic site in San Francisco’s Mission District, polluted with gasoline that leaked from storage tanks, is undergoing cleanup. Such remediations take longer in communities of color than majority-white communities. Credit: Laura Wenus/San Francisco Public Press

Toxic Cleanups in San Francisco Take More Than Four Years Longer in Communities of Color

By Audrey Mei Yi Brown, San Francisco Public Press

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