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California’s Climate Leaders Talk Clean Energy Growing Pains and the War on Iran

Virtual power plants see a renewed push in the legislature to weather the state’s “mid-transition.”

By Claire Barber

A lithium-ion battery is installed at a home in Granada Hills, Calif. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A Year After the LA Fires, Recovery Is Lagging, But Bright Spots Emerge

By Kiley Price

The Salinas River flows through California’s San Ardo Oil Field. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Green California’s Big Oil Problem

By Liza Gross

An aerial view shows farmworkers harvesting corn on Oct. 31, 2023 near McIntire, Iowa. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

As California Pushes Increased Ethanol Use, Experts Sound the Alarm on Environmental Impacts

By Nina B. Elkadi

Children play soccer next to active oil wells in Los Angeles County’s Inglewood Oil Field, the largest urban oil field in the nation. Credit: Gary Kavanagh

California Governor Signs Bills to Tighten Restrictions on Oil and Gas Drillers

By Liza Gross

A student walks by an active oil drilling field located near Alliance Ted K. Tajima High School in Los Angeles on Sept. 27, 2023. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California Communities Celebrate ‘Massive’ Victory as Oil Industry Drops Unpopular Referendum

By Liza Gross

A view of Expo City during COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Dec. 12, 2023. Credit: Wang Dongzhen/Xinhua via Getty Images

COP28 Left a Vacuum California Leaders Aim to Fill

By Liza Gross

In Signal Hill, California, an oil pump jack stands idle near homes, in February 2023. California law S.B. 1137, which required a safety buffer zone of 3,200 feet around homes and schools for new oil and gas drilling, was suspended after the petroleum industry last year collected enough signatures in a petition campaign to place a referendum on the 2024 general election ballot. The bill was originally signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom last year and also banned new drilling near parks, health care facilities, prisons and businesses open to the public. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

Environmental Justice Advocates Urge California to Stop Issuing New Drilling Permits in Neighborhoods

By Liza Gross

State Sen. Lena Gonzalez toured Mark Twain Elementary School before speaking at a press conference to promote support for Proposition 13, the historic school facilities bond, in Long Beach on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Credit: Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images

Q&A: California Drilling Setback Law Suspended by Oil Industry Ballot Maneuver. The Law’s Author Won’t Back Down

By Liza Gross

Firefighters are silhouetted against the setting sun while monitoring fire and wind conditions from a hillside in Hemet, California on Sept. 6, 2022. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

California Had a Watershed Climate Year, But Time Is Running Out

By Liza Gross

Electric vehicle charging station in Los Angeles, California. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

California Climate Measure Fails After ‘Green’ Governor Opposed It in a Campaign Supporters Called ‘Misleading’

By Liza Gross

A tractor moves a pile of recyclables at the San Francisco Recycling Center April 22, 2008 in San Francisco, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Passed a Landmark Law About Plastic Pollution. Why Are Some Environmentalists Still Concerned?

By James Bruggers

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

Oil Industry Moves to Overturn Historic California Drilling Protection Law

By Liza Gross

¿Por qué permiten que las compañías petroleras de California, asolada por la sequía, usen agua dulce?

By Liza Gross

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

Nick Edsall, orchard manager for Bullseye Farms, describes the benefits of cover crops and soil health during a farm tour for World Soil Day 2019. Credit: Becca Lucas

Q&A: Sustainable Farming Expert Weighs in on California’s Historic Investments in ‘Climate Smart’ Agriculture

By Liza Gross

The GE-Alstom Block Island Wind Farm stands in the water off Block Island, Rhode Island, on Wednesday, Sept, 14, 2016. Credit: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Can Biden’s Plan to Boost Offshore Wind Spread West?

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Contractors work on single-family homes under construction in the Cadence Park development of The Great Park Neighborhoods in Irvine, California, on April 14, 2021. Credit: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

California Proposal Embraces All-Electric Buildings But Stops Short of Gas Ban

By Dan Gearino

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon appoint a replacement to the U.S. Senate for the remaining two years of Vice president-elect Kamala Harris's term. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Newsom’s Top Five Candidates for Kamala Harris’s Senate Seat All Have Climate in Their Bios

By Evelyn Nieves

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