Julie Cart

Julie Cart joined CalMatters as a projects and environment reporter in 2016 after a long career at the Los Angeles Times, where she held many positions: sportswriter, national correspondent and environment reporter. In 2009 she and colleague Bettina Boxall won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for their series on wildfires in the West.

USNS Mercy hospital ship admit first patients on March 29, 2020. The ship is treating non-COVID-19 patients in an effort to relieve overwhelmed Los Angeles area hospitals.

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California’s Phil Ting tilts at windmills — ban gas-powered cars! — hoping to start a conversation

Environment

California’s Phil Ting tilts at windmills — ban gas-powered cars! — hoping to start a conversation

Is California ready for a new state park?

Environment

Is California ready for a new state park?

Bonds on the ballot: Will billions of dollars help California cope with climate change?

Environment

Bonds on the ballot: Will billions of dollars help California cope with climate change?

California’s ‘hydrogen highway’ never happened. Could 2020 change that?

Environment

California’s ‘hydrogen highway’ never happened. Could 2020 change that?

Battle lines are drawn over oil drilling in California

Environment

Battle lines are drawn over oil drilling in California

When it comes to wildfires, should California be more like Australia?

Environment

When it comes to wildfires, should California be more like Australia?

California tightens oil and gas regulation but stops short of a fracking ban

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California tightens oil and gas regulation but stops short of a fracking ban

Sirens, texts, even church bells. California wildfire alerts and evacuations still ad hoc

Environment

Sirens, texts, even church bells. California wildfire alerts and evacuations still ad hoc

Five things to know about microgrids

Environment

Five things to know about microgrids

California’s on fire, unplugged and out of easy answers. So why don’t we…?

Explainers

California’s on fire, unplugged and out of easy answers. So why don’t we…?

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Gov. Gavin Newsom discuses California’s efforts to convert hotels and motels into isolation housing for the homeless threatened by the coronavirus during a news conference near Sacramento, Calif. April 3, 2020.

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Google will be donating 100,000 wifi hotspots to help bridge California's digital divide during the coronavirus crisis. Is there a downside? Image via iStock

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A construction worker in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco on March 25, 2020. Public works employees are exempt during the shelter in place order. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

500% increase in CA unemployment claims

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Amid pandemic, some California sheriffs’ departments still evicting renters