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LA Wildfire Survivors Want to Rebuild All-Electric, but a Utility Is Using Customer Funds to Incentivize Gas Appliances

California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.

By Hilary Beaumont

For Many Disabled Fire Victims in Los Angeles, a Continuing Trauma

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

Taking Stock in Altadena Nine Months After the Devastating LA Fires

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A Debate Heats Up over California’s ‘Zone Zero’ Rules to Cut Home Losses to Flammable Vegetation

By Blanca Begert

Black Residents of Altadena Struggle to Hang on to Their Community After LA Fires

By Rambo Talabong

School Disruptions from the LA Fires Hit Latino, Disadvantaged and English-Language Learners Hardest, Experts Find

By Liza Gross

Public Radio’s David Brancaccio Mulls the Surprising Pluses and Minuses of Rebuilding in LA After the Fires

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Global Warming Set the Stage for Los Angeles Fires

By Bob Berwyn

LA Fire Victims Have Become ‘Dysregulated,’ Making it Hard to Focus and Make Decisions 

By Nina Dietz

A Novelist Imagined a Climate-Driven Wildfire Burning LA, Then Watched It Happen

By Michael Kodas

Are Southern California Fires Outpacing Wildlife’s Ability to Adapt?

By Liza Gross

Smoke and Ash Made More Toxic by the Contents of Burning Homes Threaten Residents of LA and Beyond

By Audrey Gray and Andrew Robinson

Misinformation Spreads Like Wildfire Online While LA Neighborhoods Burn

By Wyatt Myskow, Martha Pskowski

The Unusually Strong Force Behind the Apocalyptic Fires in Los Angeles

By Umair Irfan, Vox