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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

A Nissan Leaf EV charges at station on Sept. 23, 2024 in Pasadena, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Sues the Trump Administration for Violating the Constitution—Again

By Liza Gross

Workers cap an orphaned well near Oil City, La. on March 8, 2023. Credit: Cooper Neill for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Scientists Map Where Orphan Wells Pose Threats to Aquifers

By Martha Pskowski

Staff at the International Bird Rescue in Los Angeles examine a sick brown pelican suffering from domoic acid poisoning. Credit: Ariana-Gastelum, courtesy of the International Bird Rescue

California Toxic Algal Bloom Blamed for Months-long Marine Life Poisoning

By Teresa Tomassoni

A blanket of smog covers downtown Los Angeles as seen from Mulholland Drive in 1984. Credit: UCLA Library, Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Ignoring Federal Law, House GOP Targets California’s Nation-Leading Vehicle Pollution Rules

By Liza Gross

A cracked pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, Calif., released a flammable white vapor that quickly ignited, sending a large cloud of black smoke across surrounding communities on Aug. 6, 2012. The eruption led to stricter state safety rules for refineries, but now officials are considering rolling back some of those provisions. Credit: U.S. Chemical Safety Board

‘Secret Deal’ in California Would Weaken Regulations for Oil Refineries

By Jim Morris and Molly Peterson, Public Health Watch

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a stop of the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour at Folsom Lake College on Tuesday in Folsom, Calif. Credit: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Sen. Bernie Sanders Brings His Fighting Oligarchy Tour to Conservative Rural California Districts

By Liza Gross

California's high electricity rates make it difficult for electric heat pump customers to save money. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Do Heat Pumps Save You Money? In California, It Depends on Your Electric Utility

By Twilight Greenaway

Mosquitoes fly over the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Climate Change Is Helping Heartworm Spread to Pets in the Mountain West

By Tina Deines

People and their signs fill the frame

Protesters Across the Country Tell Trump and Musk: ‘Hands Off’ Our Country

By Liza Gross and Christine Spolar

Black Residents of Altadena Struggle to Hang on to Their Community After LA Fires

By Rambo Talabong

Plumes of smoke fill the sky as a brush fire burns on Jan. 7 in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Credit: David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images

How Should You Clean Your House After It’s Engulfed in Wildfire Smoke?

By Anna Gibbs

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