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Stoneham, MA - March 1: Emergency personnel dot Montvale Avenue in Stoneham, Mass., after downed power lines trapped cars and trucks.

Microgrids Can Bolster Creaky Electricity Systems, But Most States Do Little to Encourage Their Development

By Dan Gearino

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

Inside Climate News Freelancer Anne Marshall-Chalmers Honored for her Feature Story Showing California Wildfires Plague Mobile Home Residents

By ICN Editors

Spraying an agricultural field on the eastern shore of Maryland. Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images

Toxic Pesticides Are Sprayed Next to Thousands of US Schools

By Liza Gross

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) speaks during a rally to urge President Biden to use his executive powers to stop approving fossil fuel projects, phase out fossil fuel extraction on federal lands and waters, and declare a climate emergency, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 14, 2023. Merkley called FERC's approval of an expansion of an expansion of a natural gas pipeline through the northwest "outrageous" Thursday, Oct. 20., 2023. Credit: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images

Feds Approve Expansion of Northwestern Gas Pipeline Despite Strong Opposition Over Its Threat to Climate Goals

By Grant Stringer

The carcass of a humpback whale lies on Long Island's Lido Beach in New York, in January 2023. A necropsy revealed that the 29,000-pound mammal was struck by a vessel and died ashore. Credit: Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images.

Vessel Strikes on Whales Are Increasing With Warming. Can the Shipping Industry Slow Down to Spare Them? 

By Kiley Price

California’s Climate Disclosure Bill Could Have Nationwide Impacts

By Kristoffer Tigue

The Salton Sea.

As Companies Eye Massive Lithium Deposits in California’s Salton Sea, Locals Anticipate a Mixed Bag

By June Kim

Hurricane Hilary southwest of the Baja Peninsula on Friday, August 18, 2023. Credit: NOAA

Unusual Pacific Storms Like Hurricane Hilary Could be a Warning for the Future

By Bob Berwyn

The Brandt Cattle Company feedyard in Southern California’s Imperial Valley composts dry manure in an open field, a process that avoids nearly all methane production and emissions from the feedlot's manure. Credit: Google Earth

California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass.

By Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous

California and New York Could Miss Their 2030 Climate Targets. Could Permitting Reform Help?

By Kristoffer Tigue

The disastrous Pajaro flood made the home Emilio Vasquez rents with his family unlivable. He's still waiting to hear when he can move back in. Credit: Liza Gross

A Catastrophic Flood on California’s Central Coast Has Plunged Already Marginalized Indigenous Farmworkers Into Crisis

By Liza Gross

Don Hamann discusses the age and condition of a felled tree in the Butte Falls Community Forest during the regular Community Forest Chat on Saturday, June 10, 2023. Credit: Amanda Loman

In Oregon Timber Country, a Town Buys the Surrounding Forests to Confront Climate-Driven Wildfires

By Grant Stringer

Scott Hensen, vice president of floor planning for KB Home, points to a battery display panel on a SunPower SunValut storage system inside the garage of a model home during a tour of KB Home microgrid communities in Menifee on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Credit: Watchara Phomicinda/MediaNews Group/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images

Study: Microgrids Could Reduce California Power Shutoffs—to a Point

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

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

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