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Climate columnist @latimes.com, focused on clean energy. Dodgers fan, hiker, Disneyland aficionado. Trying to be good to people. Sign up for my twice-weekly newsletter, Boiling Point: latimes.com/boilingpoint

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Published: March 24, 2025 20:10

With the Trump administration searching for revenue and spending cuts to pay for $4.5 trillion in tax breaks, the oil and gas industry is scrambling to protect its many existing tax benefits -- and secure at least one more:…

Published: March 24, 2025 17:24

In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column urging California lawmakers to spend more taxpayer dollars on wildfire prevention — because otherwise, that money is just going to come from our utility bills:…

Published: March 23, 2025 19:36

Trump's latest executive order could make it easier for mining companies — which already enjoy relatively unfettered access to America's public lands — to move their projects through fast-tracked environmental reviews:…

Published: March 23, 2025 19:28

The jury of North Dakota residents that ordered Greenpeace to pay a fossil fuel company $660 million for alleged defamation may have been biased by a fake-news newspaper with ties to fossil fuel money, quietly distributed to small-town North Dakota…

Published: March 22, 2025 02:09

California has devoted hundreds of millions of dollars to healing Lake Tahoe. But runaway development, tourism and climate change have left the beloved lake less healthy than ever, leaving critics questioning the regional planning agency's priorities:…

Published: March 22, 2025 01:37

Lots of reasons to think Tesla could be heading for a brutal Wall Street crash, even beyond the ongoing stock price erosion. @hiltzikm.bsky.social explains: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-21/teslas-charmed-journey-coming-to-an-end

Published: March 22, 2025 01:10

Is the closure of organic dairies at Northern California's Point Reyes a win for sensitive public lands and endangered species, or a loss for Latino workers and a rural community? Possibly both, per this fascinating story by @jessicagarrison.bsky.social:…

Published: March 22, 2025 01:02

Trump's new regional EPA chief responsible for California says the agency "will lead the way in reducing energy costs, creating wealth, and cementing America’s position as a leader in agriculture, energy, manufacturing, AI technology, and transportation."…

Published: March 21, 2025 16:34

You can also finding Boiling Point on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7nKWoOEY8APKU7eT0qPfCS And YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adbZ2hnoigw&list=PLdgePvblfv95bzPoPtIbk_Cp78kpj0oPf&index=1 [contains quote post or other embedded…

Published: March 21, 2025 16:29

On this week's Boiling Point podcast, I talked with @latimes journalist @susrust about Gavin Newsom's capitulation to plastic producers -- and her own crazy journey to document all her daily interactions with plastics. Listen here:…

Published: March 20, 2025 23:33

If Congress repeals clean energy tax credits, electric bills would raise across the U.S., per a new analysis from think tank Energy Innovation. Tracks with other research showing solar, wind and batteries are cheaper than fossil fuels:…

Published: March 20, 2025 23:29

“Westerners are evolving; politicians aren’t keeping up. And yet we keep re-electing these same officials. Maybe, just maybe, the Trumpian war on civil servants will force a reckoning. We’ll re-evaluate why we need a robust federal presence in the West.”…

Published: March 20, 2025 22:53

President Trump has signed a bill repealing a federal fee on methane pollution before it even went into effect. That means oil and gas companies will be allowed to emit more of the powerful, fast-acting greenhouse gas with impunity:…

Published: March 20, 2025 22:49

A Colorado-based dam safety center, ironically created to promote efficiency within the Army Corps, is now on DOGE's chopping block. Canceling the center's lease would save just under $973,000 (at the expense of, you know, dam safety).…

Published: March 20, 2025 22:43

Los Angeles trees are absorbing more carbon dioxide than researchers expected, per a new study out of USC: https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-03-19/usc-urban-trees-study-carbon-dioxide-essential-california via @ryan-fonseca.bsky.social

Published: March 20, 2025 22:40

In a win for Western public land access, an appeals court has ruled that "corner-crossing" is legal. That means carefully stepping from one piece of checkerboarded public land to another at the diagonal corner where they meet, avoiding privately owned…

Published: March 20, 2025 22:33

Trump's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency's Southwest Office, which includes California, was previously administrator of a small city in Butte County. He was fired in January for allegedly violating his contract:…

Published: March 20, 2025 22:27

A North Dakota jury has ordered Greenpeace to pay fossil fuel company Energy Transfer to pay $660 million for its role in organizing protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Experts say the verdict could stifle public protests:…

Published: March 20, 2025 22:18

Oregon forestry investigators have determined that power lines owned by Warren Buffett's PacifiCorp utility didn't cause a destructive 2020 wildfire. Not clear if that means the utility will still be on the hook for ~$100 million in damages awarded by a…

Published: March 20, 2025 22:07

Tesla's sales slump is bad for Elon Musk. But it's also not great for the U.S. electric vehicle market, @dangearino.bsky.social reports: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20032025/inside-clean-energy-tesla-downfall-us-ev-market/

Published: March 20, 2025 22:04

About 1,000 National Park Service workers are getting their jobs back as a result of court orders. Some of the reinstated federal employees work at Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and Channel Islands National Park:…

Published: March 20, 2025 21:07

A bill proposed in the California Legislature would restore Clean Water Act protections for streams and wetlands that were gutted in 2023 by the U.S. Supreme Court: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-03-18/california-wetlands-legislation via…

Published: March 20, 2025 16:11

Uncomfortable truth: The biggest reason California's electric rates are rising so fast is that utility companies are spending billions of dollars each year on wildfire prevention. Does that mean they should spend less? My latest column:…

Published: March 19, 2025 03:13

The Trump administraiton seems to be suggestion it's going to try to bring shuttered coal plants back online: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-03-18/trump-ramp-up-production-of-beautiful-clean-coal via @hayleysmith.bsky.social

Published: March 18, 2025 16:24

This meme by @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social perfectly encapsulates today's Boiling Point newsletter. You don't make deals with the (climate) devil. In the end, you're going to lose. Please read and let me know what you think:…

Published: March 17, 2025 16:30

In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column on the latest institution caving to Trump and obeying in advance. This time it’s the LA nonprofit charged with protecting Santa Monica Bay, deleting climate and DEI references in hopes of retaining federal…

Published: March 17, 2025 02:10

President Trump may be trying to undo the establish of Chuckwalla National Monument and Sáttítla Highlands National Monument...or maybe not. After the White House removed a bullet point from a fact sheet, nobody's totally sure:…

Published: March 17, 2025 02:03

California, Arizona and Nevada are urging the Trump administration to consider patching up the bypass tubes at Glen Canyon Dam, to make sure water can keep flowing down the Colorado River even if Lake Powell drops to perilously low levels:…

Published: March 17, 2025 01:52

The main construction site for Gov. Gavin Newsom's planned Delta water tunnel will surround the rural town of Hood, population 271. Local are convinced the Newsom administration chose their spot along the Sacramento River because they had little power to…