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UC Berkeley students participate in a class at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Emeryville, California. Credit: Thor Swift/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

New Grant Will Further Research to Identify and Generate Biomass in California’s North San Joaquin Valley

By Ruchi Shahagadkar

Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D-San Luis Obispo) talks about her bill to reaffirm local governments’ authority to regulate oil and gas production at a rally outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento on Monday. Credit: Last Chance Alliance

California Climate and Health Groups Urge Legislators to Pass Polluter Pays Bills

By Liza Gross

Farmworkers pick strawberries on a field in Oxnard, Calif. Growers applied more than 60 million pounds of the fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene on crops such as strawberries to kill nematodes and other soil-dwelling organisms in 2018, the most recent year data is available. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

EPA Thought Industry-Funded Scientists Could Support Its Conclusion That a Long-Regulated Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

Glacial water streams down rocks in California’s Hoover Wilderness south of Leavitt Lake. Credit: Bing Lin/Inside Climate News

Water Issues Confronting Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail Trickle Down Into the Rest of California

By Bing Lin

Ecologist Hugh Safford holds a sugar pine cone for size comparison on the Pacific Crest Trail near Quincy, California. Credit: Bing Lin/Inside Climate News

A Path Through Scorched Earth Teaches How a Fire Deficit Helped Fuel California’s Conflagrations

By Bing Lin

The Pacific Crest Trail footpath snakes along a mountain ridge south of Donner Summit, California, as a hiker climbs up the trail. Credit: Bing Lin/Inside Climate News

First Snow, then Heat Interrupt a Hike From Mexico to Canada, as Climate Complicates an Iconic Adventure

By Bing Lin

The MV Sea Change makes its first trip in the San Francisco Bay. Credit: San Francisco Bay Ferry

San Francisco Ferry Fleet Gets New Emissions-Free Addition

By Ruchi Shahagadkar

Supercharged by Climate Change, Western Megafires Explode Simultaneously

By Kiley Price

Vehicles pass the Phillips 66 Los Angeles Oil Refinery in Wilmington, California. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Still Has No Plan to Phase Out Oil Refineries

By Liza Gross

An aerial view of the Desert Shores community on the Salton Sea in California. Credit: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Feds Contradict Scientific Research, Say the Salton Sea’s Exposed Lakebed Is Not a Significant Source of Pollution for Disadvantaged Communities

By Sarah Hopkins

The Windy Fire blazes through the Long Meadow Grove of giant sequoia trees in California’s Sequoia National Forest on Sept. 21, 2021. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Fire Once Helped Sequoias Reproduce. Now, it’s Killing the Groves

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

People and their pets rest at the Oregon Convention Center cooling station in Portland as the city is hit with extreme temperatures caused by a heat dome on June 28, 2021. Credit: Kathryn Elsesser/AFP via Getty Images

‘Not Caused by an Act of God’: In a Rare Court Action, an Oregon County Seeks to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for Extreme Temperatures

By Victoria St. Martin

The 40 Acre Conservation League, led by president Jade Stevens, purchased 650 acres of land bordering the Tahoe National Forest in northern California. Credit: K2J Productions

Q&A: How a Land Purchase Inspired by an Unfulfilled Promise Aims to Make People of Color Feel Welcome in the Wilderness

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A greater sage-grouse is seen flying through the Warner Mountains of Oregon. Credit: John Carlson/USFWS

Can the Greater Sage-Grouse Be Kept Off the Endangered Species List?

By Wyatt Myskow

The Owyhee Canyonlands in Oregon have been called the state's version of the Grand Canyon, where Western sagebrush landscapes meet rock formations reminiscent of the Colorado Plateau. Credit: EcoFlight

Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands Is the Biggest Conservation Opportunity Left in the West. If Congress Won’t Protect it, Should Biden Step in?

By Wyatt Myskow

The Government Is Set To Reintroduce Grizzly Bears to the North Cascades. What Happens Now?

By Kiley Price

The TransAlta Centralia Generation station pictured on March 8, 2024. Mount Rainer is visible to the left of the plant. Credit: Jeremy Long/WITF

A Washington State Coal Plant Has to Close Next Year. Can Pennsylvania Communities Learn From Centralia’s Transition?

By Rachel McDevitt, StateImpact Pennsylvania

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

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