A vote by Santa Barbara County supervisors to deny Sable Offshore permits to restart production builds on a series of lawsuits and an accusation of insider trading, but the CEO wants President Donald Trump to help it overcome its setbacks.
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Californians face stark disparities in pesticide exposure during pregnancy
If you’re young, pregnant and Latina, chances are you live near agricultural fields sprayed with higher levels of brain-damaging organophosphate pesticides.
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Can an AI-guided robot help a California city resist sea-level rise and sequester carbon?
A San Rafael startup proposed a sci-fi solution to raise areas facing the twin threats of land subsidence and sea-level rise. Some officials and experts are skeptical.
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Atmospheric rivers might be diminishing on the West Coast and surging in the East, study finds
Over a 20-year period, atmospheric rivers could double the amount of rain falling on part of the Southeast, the researchers found.
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Researchers wanted to understand concerns with batteries in Moss Landing. Their funding just got yanked.
Among the many federal grants canceled by the Trump administration are two related to the Central Coast community that hosts a huge energy storage facility.
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Ignoring federal law, House GOP targets California’s nation-leading vehicle pollution rules
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is moving to repeal the Golden State’s authority to set higher car and truck emission standards, which have long been targeted by President Donald Trump.
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Tariffs could spike rates in an already climate-stressed insurance market
Over the past decade, climate-fueled extreme weather events and rising inflation have pushed the homeowners insurance market to the brink. Things stand to get even worse this year. A new report from insurance comparison agency Insurify projects that home insurance rates will rise by an average of 8 percent in 2025 across the U.S. States […]
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California farmworker communities win right to be notified of pesticide applications in advance
After decades of pressure from farmworkers and their allies, California launched a statewide system to warn communities before they’re exposed to toxic pesticides. But health concerns remain.
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Trump administration launches all-out assault on environmental protection
After Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced 31 separate actions Wednesday to roll back restrictions on air and water pollution, hand over more authority to states and relinquish EPA’s mandate to act on climate change under the Clean Air Act, environmentalists vow to fight “the greatest increase in pollution in decades.”
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Moss Landing battery fire leads to health fears, evidence of contamination and concerns about overreaction
Residents around the Moss Landing battery facility in northern Monterey County describe experiences of sore throats and other symptoms. The energy storage industry insists that this incident is an extreme outlier.