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An oil pumpjack sits near homes in Signal Hill, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Oil Town Chose a Firm with Oil Industry Ties to Review Impacts of an Unprecedented 20-Year Drilling Permit Extension

By Liza Gross

An aerial view of the MCE Solar One community solar farm in Richmond, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Regulators Approve Community Solar Decision Opposed by Solar Advocates

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

The shuttered power plant in Morro Bay, Calif., where Vistra Corp. has proposed a 600-megawatt battery storage project on a portion of the site. Credit: Vistra Corp.

On California’s Central Coast, Battery Storage Is on the Ballot

By Erin Rode

As California Considers Warning Labels for Gas Stoves, Researchers Learn More About Their Negative Health Impacts

By Victoria St. Martin

More than a year ago, a catastrophic flood submerged the tiny town of Pájaro, about 95 miles south of San Francisco. The Pájaro PhotoVoice Project offered survivors of the disaster the opportunity to use photography to grapple with the impacts of climate change. Credit: Ricardo Paz-Hernandez

After the Deluge, Images of Impacts and Resilience in Pájaro, California

By Liza Gross

Activists with the Richmond-based Rich City Rays gather in front of a tanker carrying liquified natural gas in San Francisco Bay. Credit: Brooke Anderson

Climate Justice Groups Confront Chevron on San Francisco Bay

By Liza Gross

Children play basketball beside an oil well pump jack and tank in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

Battle to Prioritize Public Health over Oil Company Profits Heats Up

By Liza Gross

A rendering of Silver City Energy Centre, a compressed air energy storage plant to be built by Hydrostor in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Hydrostor

A Major Technology for Long-Duration Energy Storage Is Approaching Its Moment of Truth

By Dan Gearino

Community organizer Andrea Vidaurre won the 2024 Goldman Prize for her role in persuading the California Air Resources Board to pass two historic transportation regulations limiting truck and rail emissions. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

California Community Organizer Wins Prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize

By Liza Gross

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (third from left) shakes hands with James Wynne from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers after the ribbon cutting for the Ten West Link on April 25. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Officials Celebrate a New Power Line to Charge Up the Energy Transition in the Southwest

By Noel Lyn Smith

An In-N-Out Burger is closed and tented for termite fumigation on March 13 in Hollywood, Calif. Credit: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin via Getty Images

California Leads the Nation in Emissions of a Climate Super-Pollutant, Study Finds

By Phil McKenna, Liza Gross

A California environmental advocate who owns stock in Kraft Heinz has put forward a shareholder proposal for the company to study the claims made on recycling labels for a variety of products, including Velveeta Shells and Cheese bowls. Credit: Dorann Weber/Getty Images

Kraft Heinz Faces Shareholder Vote On Its ‘Deceptive’ Recycling Labels

By James Bruggers

A Shell gas station sign displays high prices on Sept. 17, 2023 in Los Angeles. Credit: Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Potential Changes to Alternate-Fuel Standards Could Hike Gas Prices in California. Critics See a ‘Regressive Tax’ on Low-Income Communities

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A worker sprays weed killer around the edges of a vineyard near Healdsburg, Calif. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

California’s Latino Communities Most at Risk From Exposure to Brain-Damaging Weed Killer

By Liza Gross

Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles) recently introduced a bill to encourage companies that operate low-producing oil wells near frontline communities to clean them up or pay a penalty. Credit: Lara Aburamadan/Survival Media Agency

California’s Climate Leaders Vow to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies to Account

By Liza Gross

In McKittrick, California, high power electrical transmission lines reach over the mountains from the solar farms in California City to the Central Valley. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

California Votes to Consider Health and Environment in Future Energy Planning

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A Presidente Supermarket employee bags groceries in Miami, Fla. A proposed statewide measure in Florida would block cities from banning single-use plastic items. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Q&A: The Latest in the Battle Over Plastic Bag Bans

By Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

A man looks out over the Colorado River near Page, Ariz. on Nov. 2, 2022. The seven states that manage the river are divided about how to account for the impacts of climate change in new plans about sharing its water. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Colorado River States Have Two Different Plans for Managing Water. Here’s Why They Disagree

By Alex Hager, KUNC

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