Southern California warehouse boom a huge source of pollution. Regulators are...
Southern California air quality officials are set to vote on rules that seek to cut pollution from trucks at 3,000 warehouses.
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Southern California air quality officials are imposing new rules on nearly 3,000 warehouses, citing increased pollution from diesel truck traffic.
View ArticleNearly 150 arrested after TikTok birthday invite draws raucous crowd to...
Scores were arrested in Huntington Beach after a TikTok video invitation to a birthday party, dubbed Adrian’s kickback, drew an unruly crowd.
View ArticleAuthorities investigate two shootings on the 605 Freeway. One man was wounded
Authorities are investigating two shootings that occurred Saturday along the southbound 605 Freeway in Irwindale, including one that sent a man to the hospital.
View ArticleCaldor fire smoke and ash are clouding Lake Tahoe's famously clear water
Smoke and ash are reducing the clarity of Lake Tahoe’s famed deep blue waters. Researchers are studying whether the damage is temporary or lasting.
View ArticleNewsom signs $15-billion package to fight climate change, wildfire and drought
The approval of $15 billion to address the worsening effects of global warming was announced amid Climate Week
View ArticleSoCalGas agrees to pay up to $1.8 billion in settlement for 2015 Aliso Canyon...
Southern California Gas Co. agrees to an up to $1.8-billion settlement with victims of the 2015 Aliso Canyon gas leak.
View ArticleLong after Aliso Canyon gas rupture, residents still fear long-term toll on...
A $1.8-billion settlement over the 2015 gas leak has relieved some residents, but many still seek answers about the consequences to their health.
View ArticleClimate change is supercharging California heat waves, and the state isn't ready
California's worst heat waves arrive in a one-two punch — high temperatures combined with humid air from Baja.
View ArticleL.A. City Council members push for measures to monitor and prevent...
L.A. City Council members are calling for new measures to protect residents from the health impacts of extreme heat.
View ArticlePoor neighborhoods bear the brunt of extreme heat, 'legacies of racist...
Paved surfaces, tree cover, and home construction quality can make the difference between heat waves being an inconvenience or a threat to your life.
View ArticleEditorial: Why a fossilized gas station is the perfect symbol for...
The sculpture of a fossilized gas station at California's new emissions testing lab in smoggy Riverside? The symbolism is perfect.
View ArticleEditorial: Let's make 2022 the year we all get angry about climate inaction
Let this be the year we harness our collective anger and demand politicians finally do what is necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change.
View ArticleL.A.’s asphalt-covered schoolyards are an environmental injustice
Children shouldn’t be forced to learn and play in hot, asphalt-covered, fenced-in campuses, especially in neighborhoods that already lack park space.
View ArticleCommentary: We’re in a crowded universe, but Earth is still precious
The dazzling first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are the latest in a gradual but continually improving understanding of the universe, like the newfound clarity you find when you leave the...
View ArticleThink climate change is scary? Try talking to your kids about it
As an environmental reporter, I write about how climate change is hurting people and the planet. But at home, I’ve struggled to talk about it with my own daughters.
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Why close the ‘super bloom’? Because we can't seem to love nature without...
Lake Elsinore, CA - February 07: A close-up view of the spring California Poppies and wild flowers blooming early this year in the wake of major winter rainfall, which are covering patches of the...
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L.A.’s snowy mountains are a glorious, fleeting thing to behold
LOS ANGELES CALIF. - FEB. 26, 2023. Visitors to Kenneth Hahn Regional Park get a look at mountains covered in snow on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. More rain and snow is forecast for Southern California as a...
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I have a mental map of mass shootings. Will it ever stop filling up?
Children from The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn., hold hands as they are taken to a reunification site at the Woodmont Baptist Church after a shooting at their school,...
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Goodbye gas. New all-electric homes show how to live without fossil fuels
A model home is one of 219 units in two adjacent subdivisions in the Inland Empire city where homes come equipped with rooftop solar panels, on-site battery storage and smart electrical panels that...
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Deadly heat shouldn’t be a curiosity. It’s a disaster and a tragedy
Death Valley, CA - July 17: An extreme heat danger sign at Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, on Monday, July 17, 2023, in Death Valley, CA. The temperature is 120 and climbing at today 10:00...
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The fossil fuel industry wants you to think Latinos are against EVs. That's...
COALINGA CA SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 - Argelia Leon stands near an oil pumpjack in Coalinga. Images are for a commentary piece out of Coalinga about the oil industrys Levanta Tu Voz program, which is aimed...
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Bird names shouldn’t honor bigots and enslavers — or anyone
CANYON COUNTRY , CA - APRIL 11: Tania Romero, a graduate student from California State University Los Angeles and an avian biologist, puts a band on Townsends warbler caught in a net at Bear Divide in...
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California makes it so easy to vote. We can't take that right for granted
Boyle Heights, CA - March 05: A view of voting machines as voters cast their ballots during Super Tuesday primary election at the Boyle Heights Senior Center in Boyle Heights Tuesday, March 5, 2024....
View ArticleIt's way too hard to install this climate-friendly appliance
Cleaner home heating and cooling technology exists and could help fight climate change, plus more from Opinion.
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