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Published: March 10, 2025 18:04

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Published: March 10, 2025 18:01

Some State Farmer policyholders say they're having a hell of a time getting the insurer to cover their living and recovery expenses following the Eaton and Palisades fires:…

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Published: March 10, 2025 17:51

New polls finds more than 90% of people living in Eaton and Palisades fire burn zones have lived in L.A. County for more than 11 years. But roughly 40% have thought about leaving because of the fires:…

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Published: March 10, 2025 17:49

Ever since cancer-causing benzene was found in Santa Rosa's water following the Tubbs fire, scientists have learned a lot about testing water for chemicals post-fire. They're putting those lessons to use in L.A.:…

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Published: March 10, 2025 17:35

To clarify, Newsom has delayed the finalizing of regulations, not the deadlines in the law. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 10, 2025 17:29

The Trump administration has threatened $1.1 billion in promised federal funds to electrify trucks and equipment at the ports of L.A. and Long Beach. If the money doesn't come through, Angelenos will breathe dirtier air:…

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Published: March 10, 2025 17:22

Los Angeles County officials have no idea whether the Trump administration will come through with funding for planned bus and rail line expansions ahead of the 2028 Olympics:…

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Published: March 10, 2025 17:06

In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My latest plea to California policymakers to stop wasting time arguing about rooftop solar incentives and find a way to support a crucial clean energy technology — without raising electric rates:…

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Published: March 10, 2025 02:23

Will President Trump and Elon Musk's attacks on the California Coastal Commission provoke another uprising to protect the state's treasured coastline, like the one that created the commission five decades ago? It's possible, Steve Lopez writes:…

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Published: March 10, 2025 02:16

Trump's anti-DEI crusade has led to the cancelation of firefighting bootcamps that helped women break into a male-dominated profession: https://19thnews.org/2025/02/dei-women-wildland-firefighting-bootcamps-canceled/ via @jessicakutz.bsky.social

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Published: March 8, 2025 07:15

Karen Budd-Falen, who will reportedly serve as Trump's third in command at the Interior Department, "is a private property rights extremist (except when they get in the way of public lands grazing)," @landdesk.bsky.social writes:…

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Published: March 8, 2025 07:01

California lawmakers still begging Congress for federal wildfire aid: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-03-07/california-lawmakers-urge-congressional-leaders-to-continue-federal-wildfire-aid

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Published: March 8, 2025 07:00

Hundreds of people protested the Trump administration at a Stand up for Science rally in Westwood on Friday: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-03-07/stand-up-for-science-los-angeles-protest-trump-cuts via @lilaseidman.bsky.social

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Published: March 8, 2025 06:52

In a big win for the fossil fuel and chemicals industries, Gov. Gavin Newsom has delayed implementation of California's landmark law to reduce single-use plastics. Won't be good for human health or the environment, @susrust.bsky.social reports:…

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:58

Not just California anymore where Tesla sales are slumping: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/musk-doge-cuts-tesla-stock

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:57

Trump's federal job cuts could hinder life-saving avalanche forecasts in the Western U.S.: https://apnews.com/article/avalanches-weather-forecasters-trump-layoffs-4e760c0b3ea8a8389e266e6074116171

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:56

The U.S. Government Accountability Office says Congress can't block California's 2035 ban on gasoline vehicle sales. Wonder if Congress will try to do it anyway:…

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:54

Congressional Republicans have proposed legislation that would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from using best-in-class scientific assessments that measure chemical toxicity:…

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:51

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could determine the fate of proposed nuclear waste storage sites in New Mexico and Texas. It wasn't clear how the justices will rule:…

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:46

"They followed the American bootstraps prescription, did what they were told and graduated from college, expecting the promise of upward mobility. But stability remains elusive." The Eaton fire brought even more uncertainty to Latino families:…

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:40

The L.A. fires have taken a nightmarish toll on children's mental health. Some kids have seen their development set back by years. Excruciating story by @jennyagold.bsky.social:…

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:36

A record number of people visited America's national parks last year -- not that the Trump administration is trumpeting that fact, as the federal government normally would:…

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:31

The leader of California's high-speed rail project says the bullet train needs more funded, or it won't be finished: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-06/high-speed-rail-authority-ceo-concerned-over-financial-stability via…

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Published: March 7, 2025 23:41

Speechwriter for the former Enron CEO says I "might need an intervention from a loved one." Fun. https://energysecurityfreedom.substack.com/p/climate-alarmism-is-old-stale-and

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Published: March 7, 2025 17:54

Protesters rallied against Elon Musk outside at least 90 Tesla shops and charging stations across the country: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/03/tesla-protests-elon-musk-doge/

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Published: March 7, 2025 17:50

California's Chinook salmon population is in such bad shape that state regulators may have to cancel fishing season for the third straight year, which has never happened before:…

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Published: March 7, 2025 17:48

Scientists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are using an archive of carefully preserved feathers to study how wildfire smoke affects bird behavior. Fascinating story by @corinnepurtill.bsky.social:…

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Published: March 7, 2025 17:46

Which of California's national monuments face the greatest risk from the Trump administration's "energy dominance" agenda? @lilaseidman.bsky.social takes a look:…

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Published: March 7, 2025 05:51

The best team in MLB history also blew the biggest lead in MLB history. If that's not the meaning of baseball, I don't know what is. Amazing stuff from @sammillerbb.bsky.social on small sample sizes: https://pebblehunting.substack.com/p/mistaken-identity

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Published: March 6, 2025 23:41

More to the story in this column: https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2025-02-06/column-forget-trumps-wrecking-ball-heres-how-to-treat-americas-public-lands-boiling-point [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 6, 2025 23:39

Enjoyed talking public lands, renewable energy and conservation on L.A. Times Today. Watch here: https://www.latimes.com/00000195-63f6-d388-a9dd-fbfef9430000-123

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Published: March 6, 2025 20:25

You can also find Boiling Point on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Q7Wkocn09hsr1RquolgdO And YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I92Dx7xMGw8 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 6, 2025 20:23

President Trump has been lying constantly about water and wildfires in California. For the truth, listen to my conversation with @latimes.com environment reporter @ianjames.bsky.social on the latest Boiling Point podcast:…

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Published: March 6, 2025 20:08

"Keep up the great work since your article did confirm what I already believed" --Email from a reader (who mostly complained that I did not sufficiently confirm all the other things they believe)

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Published: March 6, 2025 18:12

Work has begun to convert a large stretch of America's most contaminated nuclear site, in eastern Washington state, to a massive solar and battery plant. Will the Trump administration let the project go forward? Yet to be seen:…

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Published: March 6, 2025 17:31

The chair of a federal civil service board has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily reinstate thousands of fired Department of Agriculture employees, including U.S. Forest Service workers:…

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Published: March 6, 2025 17:00

Does California want to be America's rooftop solar leader or not? Right now, it seems like the answer is no. I'm sick of hearing the same arguments I've been hearing for 10 years. It's time to my forward and add millions more solar roofs. My column for…

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Published: March 6, 2025 06:36

Between random water releases, Bureau of Reclamation job cuts, deportation raids and now tariffs, Trump seems really determined to make life hard for Central Valley farmers.…

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Published: March 6, 2025 02:00

Good data dump from @landdesk.bsky.social showing how Page, Arizona, thrived even after a coal plant shut down thanks to the outdoor recreation economy. More important now than ever as Trump attacks public lands:…

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Published: March 6, 2025 01:36

Will be fascinating to see if @buffywicks.bsky.social's push for wide-ranging permitting reform goes anywhere this year in Sacramento. Her goal is to accelerate construction of housing, clean energy, electric vehicle chargers and more:…

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Published: March 6, 2025 01:26

Maybe the wildfires in North Carolina will force congressional Republicans to fork over wildfire aid for California without strings attached? Interesting column by @hiltzikm.bsky.social, with some cool Imperial Valley/Louisiana history I didn't know about:…

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Published: March 6, 2025 01:15

Los Angeles County is now suing Southern California Edison over the Eaton fire, seeking hundreds of millions of dollars to help Altadena recover. It's still not totally clear if Edison did, in fact, spark the blaze:…

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Published: March 6, 2025 00:51

Been enjoying @chrisdangelo.bsky.social's new newsletter, Public Domain. Important story on the Republican Party's continued efforts to take public lands out of public lands, for the benefit of oil, gas and other extractive industries:…

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Published: March 6, 2025 00:47

California's pullback of rooftop solar incentives has contributed to serious financial woes for Sunnova, one of the nation's largest residential solar companies:…

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Published: March 6, 2025 00:41

The director of California's recycling agency wrote the state's landmark law to reduce single-use plastics. Then she went to work for plastics and packaging companies working to delay, if not derail, the law — leading to an ethics complaint:…

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Published: March 6, 2025 00:38

U.S. Forest Service job cuts could interfere with surveys for California spotted owls and other at-risk species, which in turn could interfere with wildfire mitigation projects that need environmental analyses to move forward:…

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Published: March 6, 2025 00:28

Fun episode of Boiling Point coming tomorrow. I talk with @latimes.com water reporter @ianjames.bsky.social about Trump supposedly ordering a military invasion of CA (which did not happen), and all the other water craziness recently. Catch up on the…

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Published: March 6, 2025 00:25

The city of San Francisco got its way, in the form of a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling that limits the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to keep polluted stormwater out of the ocean:…

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Published: March 6, 2025 00:23

The Trump administration is cutting about 10% of the Bureau of Reclamation's staff in California. Water managers warn that the layoffs and buyouts could threaten public safety and make it harder to deliver water reliably:…

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Published: March 5, 2025 06:59

Enjoyed going on @kalwradio.bsky.social to talk climate journalism with @ethanelkind.bsky.social. Listen here: https://www.kalw.org/show/your-call/2025-03-03/climate-crisis-and-the-state-environmental-journalism

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Published: March 5, 2025 06:54

"We can’t just hand off the governing thing to a handful of elected officials in Santa Fe or Washington, D.C., and expect them to manage the apocalypse for us." From @jfleck.bsky.social on water in the West:…

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Published: March 3, 2025 18:17

President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act included $50 million for habitat restoration and water supplies for the Great Salt Lake. The Trump administration has put that money on pause:…

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Published: March 3, 2025 17:58

In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column calling on California’s leaders to stop promising cheaper, cleaner energy and actually deliver. Big challenges require courage:…

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Published: March 3, 2025 01:25

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's California office has lost 10 percent of its staff to Elon Musk's job cuts — threatening the agency's ability to delivery more water to Central Valley farmers, as Trump has long promised:…

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Published: March 3, 2025 01:12

Researchers are studying how debris from the Los Angeles wildfires may layer on top of climate change and other stressors to affect underwater kelp growth off the coast of Southern California:…

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Published: March 3, 2025 00:59

Hundreds of protesters gathered at National Park Service sites across Southern California to protest the Trump administration's attacks on public lands:…