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A truck unloads organic waste to be used for composting at the Anaerobic Composter Facility in Woodland, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo

California is ‘nowhere near’ emissions goals. It’s still sending organic waste to landfills

California trucks much of its organic waste to landfills instead of recyclers, largely because of an exclusive franchise hauling system.

By Clemens Stockreiter • 2 月 25, 2026

A yellow dirt bike leans against a pile of rocks near a formation of rocks along a ridge overlooking a valley, with a mountain range in the background.

California dirt bikers battled against desert preservation, spawning anti-environmental wars

Today’s anti-environmentalists follow tracks laid by the ‘Phantom Duck’ and the Barstow-to-Vegas Race, where thousands of bikers sped across open desert.

By Julia Sizek • 2 月 9, 2026

环境

EPA touts bipartisan efforts to clean up Tijuana River

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin met with local and congressional leaders in San Diego on Thursday to tout the U.S. and Mexico's progress in cleaning up the polluted Tijuana River.

经过

黛博拉·布伦南

• 2 月 9, 2026

Sprinklers spray water across long, evenly spaced rows of young crops in a farm field, with mist drifting through the air in soft light.

政治

How California lawmakers are trying to speed up spending on voter-approved climate projects

Assemblymember David Alvarez is pushing a proposal to get Prop. 4 dollars out the door faster more than a year after voters approved the state’s biggest climate bond to date.

经过

Nadia Lathan

• 1 月 23, 2026

A elevated terrain covered in pine trees on a clear and sunny day.

A California national monument may lose protected status, risking plant and animal life — and water

Volcanic rock at the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument filters rain and snowmelt into an underground aquifer network that holds as much as 200 of California's biggest reservoirs.

By Heather Bourbeau • 1 月 22, 2026

A gas gathering plant on a hilltop at the Southern California Gas Company's Aliso Canyon storage facility near the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles in 2017. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

Suspicion looms over Aliso Canyon storage facility a decade after massive gas leak

Residents are angry that the natural gas storage site still operates. Its methane gas leak in 2015-16 displaced 10,000 families and caused illness.

By Madison Kerbeck • 1 月 20, 2026

A large oil refinery is illuminated against the backdrop of a twilight sky. Tall distillation towers with staircases and platforms rise into the air, with numerous lights glowing across the industrial structure. A plume of black smoke drifts from one of the stacks, contrasting with the warm hues of the sunset. Metal pipes, walkways, and scaffolding weave throughout the refinery, creating a dense, industrial landscape.

California shouldn’t let oil companies rewrite refinery safety rules

Regulators will hold a hearing Jan. 15 at the OSHA Standards Board in Sacramento on changes that will weaken safety standards for refineries.

By Marie Choi and Nick Plurkowski • 1 月 14, 2026

A nighttime view of a hillside engulfed in flames near powerline towers. Over the fire and smoke from the top of the hill, a helicopter is flying with a water hose hanging off the bottom.

Here’s how we can stop LA firestorms from happening again

To avoid repeating last year’s urban blaze, we should fund fire-safe homes and neighborhoods, but politicians often are paying to thin out forests far from urban settings.

By Chad Hanson • 1 月 13, 2026

Mist drifts through a wide valley surrounded by dark, rugged mountain cliffs, with a tall, rounded granite peak rising in the distance under a hazy sky.

Protecting California’s public lands from oil and gas drilling is defending public health

Federal plans for oil drilling along a million acres in California would change healthful, wild spaces into sources of pollution and illness.

By Ashley McClure, M.D. • 12 月 23, 2025

Two electrical towers are seen on top of a small brown mountain with wires running through them on other side.

Reader Reactions

Small-scale bioenergy is critical for wildfire prevention, climate resilience, and emissions reduction

Ending BioMAT in 2025 would undermine investments in bioenergy and leave communities without safe biomass disposal options.

By Gary Bradford • 12 月 22, 2025