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Author Archives: 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.

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Firefighters stand watch by a fire line along Mayacama Club Drive as the Kincade Fire burns in the outskirts of Santa Rosa on Oct. 28, 2019. Photo by Dai Sugano, Bay Area News Group

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

AvatarAvatar by Julie Cart and Judy Lin October 30, 2019September 10, 2020

Only hard options remain for dealing with California’s wildfire crisis. From controlled burns to burying power lines to breaking up PG&E, what are the odds?

Photo by Naveen Nkadalaveni, Wikimedia Commons

California’s worsening wildfires, explained

AvatarAvatar by Julie Cart and Judy Lin October 25, 2019August 20, 2020
Los Angeles fire official Michael Flynn demonstrates advanced information equipment in a command vehicle, part of a California pilot program. Photo by Nancy Pastor for CalMatters

California pursues a holy grail: high-tech data to predict how wildfire will spread

Avatar by Julie Cart October 23, 2019October 23, 2019
A worker douses potentially contaminated soil n Paradise, California, 11 months after the Camp Fire. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

Cleaning up Paradise as a grim anniversary nears

Avatar by Julie Cart October 9, 2019October 9, 2019
California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. USFWS photo by Steve Martarano via Flickr

Demise of key environment bill could escalate California’s water wars

Avatar by Julie Cart September 18, 2019September 19, 2019
President Trump. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr

Can Trump really yank California’s power to police tailpipe pollution? ‘See you in court’

AvatarAvatar by Rachel Becker and Julie Cart September 18, 2019October 1, 2019
Photo by tntemerson, istockphotos.com

On bill to blunt Trump’s environment aims, it’s farms or endangered species — and Newsom must choose

Avatar by Julie Cart September 11, 2019September 14, 2019
Burned homes, trees and vehicles in the Northern California city of Santa Rosa, after a devastating 2017 wildfire. Photo by Anne Belden, istockphotos.com

What to know as California’s peak fire months loom

Avatar by Julie Cart August 29, 2019August 30, 2019
A convertible is driven along the coastline in Big Sur, California. Photo by Pgiam/istockphotos.com

Can California put cars in the rear-view mirror?

Avatar by Julie Cart August 15, 2019April 24, 2020
Sleeping driver in autonomous car. Photo by metamorworks, istockphoto.com

California steers toward a future of self-driving cars

Avatar by Julie Cart July 26, 2019July 31, 2019

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