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Heat radiates off of the panels of one of the solar farms in Desert Center, California, on Monday, May 8, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould

Solar Is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way

By Wyatt Myskow

A residential grid-tied solar array in installed on a hillside in Malibu, California. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Noting a Mountain of Delays, California Lawmakers Advance Bills Designed to Speed Grid Connections

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

As the Colorado River Declines, Water Scarcity and the Hunt for New Sources Drive up  Rates

By Wyatt Myskow and Emma Peterson

Power lines in Flagstaff, Arizona. Credit: Paul S. Howell/Liaison

SunZia Southwest Transmission Project Receives Final Federal Approval

By Emma Peterson

Inglewood Oil Field in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

California Bill Would Hit Oil Companies With $1 Million Penalty for Health Impacts

By Aaron Cantú, Capital & Main

Two solar workers install solar panels on home in Oak View, Southern California. Credit: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Environmental Groups File Court Challenge on California Rooftop Solar Policy

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Workers install solar panels on the roofs of homes under construction south of Corona, California on May 3, 2018. Credit: Will Lester/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin via Getty Images

California Enters ‘Uncharted Territory’ After Cutting Payments to Rooftop Solar Owners by 75 Percent

By Dan Gearino

A woman and her children cross the street at the intersection of Fruitvale Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard in the Dimond District of Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Credit: Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

As Extreme Fires Multiply, California Scientists Zero In on How Smoke Affects Pregnancy and Children

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

In Signal Hill, California, an oil pump jack stands idle near homes, in February 2023. California law S.B. 1137, which required a safety buffer zone of 3,200 feet around homes and schools for new oil and gas drilling, was suspended after the petroleum industry last year collected enough signatures in a petition campaign to place a referendum on the 2024 general election ballot. The bill was originally signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom last year and also banned new drilling near parks, health care facilities, prisons and businesses open to the public. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

Environmental Justice Advocates Urge California to Stop Issuing New Drilling Permits in Neighborhoods

By Liza Gross

Sunrun installers place solar panels on the roof of a home in Granada Hills, California. Credit: Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California Denies Bid from Home Solar Company to Sell Power as a ‘Micro-Utility’

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Nearby homes are in danger of fire after an explosion on the Signal Hill oil field in Long Beach, California, June 1933. Credit: FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

History of Racism Leaves Black Californians Most at Risk from Oil and Gas Drilling, New Research Shows

By Liza Gross

In Mammoth Lakes, California, snow covers roofs next to snowbanks in March piled up from new and past storms in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the wake of an atmospheric river event. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

California Snowpack May Hold Record Amount of Water, With Significant Flooding Possible

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Developers have redesigned Treasure Island to withstand a rising San Francisco Bay, elevating land and setting aside space for ever-higher sea walls. Engineers say planned fortifications will hold — but with flood risk accelerating, no one knows for how long. Credit: Yesica Prado/San Francisco Public Press

Promising to Prevent Floods at Treasure Island, Builders Downplay Risk of Sea Rise

By Kristi Coale, San Francisco Public Press

Westlands Solar Park, near the town of Lemoore in the San Joaquin Valley of California, is the largest solar power plant in the United States and could become one of the largest in the world. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

In California’s Central Valley, the Plan to Build More Solar Faces a Familiar Constraint: The Need for More Power Lines

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A road washed away on North Main Street of Santa Cruz during atmospheric river in California, United States on March 10, 2023. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

In the Deluged Mountains of Santa Cruz, Residents Cope With Compounding Disasters

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

An aerial view of landslide damage in La Cañada Flintridge, California on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California, Battered by Atmospheric Rivers, Faces a Big Melt This Spring

By Bob Berwyn

Pump jacks at the Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site in Kern County, California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Fracking Wastewater Causes Lasting Harm to Key Freshwater Species

By Liza Gross

A grove of tufa towers along the south shore of Mono Lake, California, where long-term drought, global warming and water diversions threaten an ancient ecosystem. Photo credit: Bob Berwyn

Mono Lake Tribe Seeks to Assert Its Water Rights in Call For Emergency Halt of Water Diversions to Los Angeles

By Bob Berwyn

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