West Coast

As Extreme Fires Multiply, California Scientists Zero In on How Smoke Affects Pregnancy and Children

Climate change portends ever more frequent fires, and the smoky haze is “not easy to run from anymore,” notes one of the study’s leaders.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

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

By Liza Gross

California Denies Bid from Home Solar Company to Sell Power as a ‘Micro-Utility’

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

History of Racism Leaves Black Californians Most at Risk from Oil and Gas Drilling, New Research Shows

By Liza Gross

Promising to Prevent Floods at Treasure Island, Builders Downplay Risk of Sea Rise

By Kristi Coale, San Francisco Public Press

California, Battered by Atmospheric Rivers, Faces a Big Melt This Spring

By Bob Berwyn

Mono Lake Tribe Seeks to Assert Its Water Rights in Call For Emergency Halt of Water Diversions to Los Angeles

By Bob Berwyn

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

By Liza Gross

Confronting California’s Water Crisis

By Liza Gross

California Activists Redouble Efforts to Hold the Oil Industry Accountable on Neighborhood Drilling

By Liza Gross

This Winter’s Rain and Snow Won’t be Enough to Pull the West Out of Drought

By Alex Hager, KUNC

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

By Liza Gross

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

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

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

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

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Cuando tu vecino es un pozo de petróleo

By Liza Gross

When an Oil Well Is Your Neighbor

By Liza Gross

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