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A boat dock sits on dry ground far from the water at Lake Mendocino on April 22, 2021 in Ukiah, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

When the State Cut Their Water, These California Users Created a Collaborative Solution

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

An active oil drilling rig is located next to a single family home on Sept. 21, 2022 in Signal Hill, California. Credit: Allison Dinner/Getty Images

Petition Circulators Are Telling California Voters that a Ballot Measure Would Ban New Oil and Gas Wells Near Homes. In Fact, It Would Do the Opposite

By Liza Gross

LEFT: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek. Credit: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images. CENTER: Independent gubernatorial candidate Betsy Johnson. Credit: Betsy for Oregon campaign. RIGHT: AURORA, OR - OCTOBER 18: Republican gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan. Credit: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images

A Republican Leads in the Oregon Governor’s Race, Taking Aim at the State’s Progressive Climate Policies

By Emma Ricketts

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

Mobile Homes, the Last Affordable Housing Option for Many California Residents, Are Going Up in Smoke

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Una bomba extrae petróleo crudo justo detrás de la ventana del dormitorio de Yesinia Martínez, quien ha tenido problemas de salud, la mayoría relacionados con la extracción de petróleo y gas, desde que era pequeña. Crédito: Liza Gross

Cuando tu vecino es un pozo de petróleo

By Liza Gross

A pumpjack extracts crude oil just behind Yesinia Martinez's bedroom window. Martinez has had health problems, most linked to oil and gas extraction, since she was little. Credit: Liza Gross

When an Oil Well Is Your Neighbor

By Liza Gross

Christine Gemperle shells an almond freshly picked from a tree in her grove in Ceres. Credit: Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

Out in the Fields, Contemplating Humanity and a Parched Almond Farm

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

California Regulators Banned Fracking Wastewater for Irrigation, but Allow Wastewater From Oil Drilling. Scientists Say There’s Little Difference

By Liza Gross

People with Valley Fever undergo treatment at San Joaquin Valley Pulmonary. Credit: Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Climate Change is Spreading a Debilitating Fungal Disease Throughout the West

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

A family wears face masks as they walk through the smoke filled streets after the Thomas wildfire swept through Ventura, California on Dec. 6, 2017. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

The ‘State of the Air’ in America Is Unhealthy and Getting Worse, Especially for People of Color

By Kristoffer Tigue

A worker on a farm wears a Tyvek chemical protective suit as he sprays a field with a herbicide after the broccoli harvest. Credit: Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis via Getty Images

‘Reduced Risk’ Pesticides Are Widespread in California Streams

By Liza Gross

A young fingerling Chinook salmon leaps out of the water on May 16, 2018 in Half Moon Bay, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

In the Latest Rights of Nature Case, a Tribe Is Suing Seattle on Behalf of Salmon in the Skagit River

By Katie Surma

Power lines and power generating windmills rise above the rural landscape on June 13, 2018 near Dwight, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Here Are 5 States that Took Leaps on Clean Energy Policy in 2021

By Dan Gearino

This rendering shows a proposed nuclear power plant by X-energy that would produce electricity from four helium gas-cooled reactors. Courtesy of X-energy

This Next-Generation Nuclear Power Plant Is Pitched for Washington State. Can it ‘Change the World’?

By Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times

Nuclear Energy Industry Angles for Bigger Role in Washington State and US as Climate Change Accelerates

By Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times

Fracking fluid and other drilling wastes are dumped into an unlined pit located right up against the Petroleum Highway in Kern County, California. Credit: Sarah Craig/Faces of Fracking

Unchecked Oil and Gas Wastewater Threatens California Groundwater

By Liza Gross

A firefighting helicopter flies past smoke plumes after making a water drop during the Dixie Fire on Aug. 18, 2021 near Susanville, California. Credit: Patrick T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images

Dangerous Air: As California Burns, America Breathes Toxic Smoke

By Alison Saldanha, Farida Jhabvala Romero, Caleigh Wells and Aaron Glantz

Farmworkers harvest cucumbers at Full Belly Farm in Guinda, California. Credit: Liza Gross

Farming Without a Net

By Liza Gross

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