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Wastewater from oil operations is often dumped into unlined pits, a practice that has contaminated protected groundwater in Kern County and other oil-producing areas in California. Credit: Liza Gross

Drought-Wracked California Allows Oil Companies to Use High-Quality Water. But Regulators’ Error-Strewn Records Make Accurate Accounting Nearly Impossible

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

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 bumblebee hangs on a still-red blueberry. Credit: Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images

Extreme Heat Poses an Emerging Threat to Food Crops

By Liza Gross

Kyle Ferrar of FracTracker Alliance has documented emissions of the climate super-pollutant methane and hazardous air contaminants drifting from this oil well site toward the Grow Academy K-8 school in Arvin, California. Credit: Liza Gross

California Passes Law Requiring Buffer Zones for New Oil and Gas Wells

By Liza Gross

Traffic backs up at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza on Aug. 24, 2022 in Oakland, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Just Banned Gas-Powered Cars. Here’s Everything You Need to Know

By Dan Gearino

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

The Hemenway boat ramp at the marina on Lake Mead, a reservoir on the Colorado River that has dropped significantly. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

State Tensions Rise As Water Cuts Deepen On The Colorado River

By Aydali Campa

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

The Moss Landing Energy Storage facility has 400 megawatts of capacity and the ability to run at that level for up to four hours. Credit: Vistra Corp.

Inside Clean Energy: Did You Miss Me? A Giant Battery Storage Plant Is Back Online, Just in Time for Summer

By Dan Gearino

A power pole that has split after the CZU Lightning Complex fire rolled through the area leans precariously over Empire Grade in Bonny Doon, California on Aug. 20, 2020. Credit: Shmuel Thaler/MediaNews Group/Santa Cruz Sentinel via Getty Images

Is Burying Power Lines Fire-Prevention Magic, or Magical Thinking?

By Angela K. Evans

Inside Clean Energy: This Virtual Power Plant Is Trying to Tackle a Housing Crisis and an Energy Crisis All at Once

By Dan Gearino

The sun shines over towers carrying electrical lines August 30, 2007 in South San Francisco, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Released a Bold Climate Plan, but Critics Say It Will Harm Vulnerable Communities and Undermine Its Goals

By Kristoffer Tigue

A farmer digs to check soil moisture on his farmland in Firebaugh, California in the state's San Joaquin Valley, on March 11, 2009. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

California Considers ‘Carbon Farming’ As a Potential Climate Solution. Ardent Proponents, and Skeptics, Abound

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Livestock outside of Bakersfield in Kern County, California. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Feeding Cows Seaweed Reduces Their Methane Emissions, but California Farms Are a Long Way From Scaling Up the Practice

By Grace van Deelen

A worker with OC Waste & Recycling watches as a screening machine separates decomposed green waste at the new composting operation at a landfill in Irvine on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Credit: Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

California Gears Up for a New Composting Law to Cut Methane Emissions and Enrich Soil

By Grace van Deelen

California Water Regulators Still Haven’t Considered the Growing Body of Research on the Risks of Oil Field Wastewater

By Liza Gross

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

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