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California Votes to Consider Health and Environment in Future Energy Planning

State regulators approved a plan to determine how to weigh “non-energy benefits” in decisions about energy resources, as the state pursues 100 percent zero-carbon electricity by 2045.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

 In McKittrick, California, high power electrical transmission lines reach over the mountains from the solar farms in California City to the Central Valley. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images.
A Presidente Supermarket employee bags groceries in Miami, Fla. A proposed statewide measure in Florida would block cities from banning single-use plastic items. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Q&A: The Latest in the Battle Over Plastic Bag Bans

By Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth
A man looks out over the Colorado River near Page, Ariz. on Nov. 2, 2022. The seven states that manage the river are divided about how to account for the impacts of climate change in new plans about sharing its water. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Colorado River States Have Two Different Plans for Managing Water. Here’s Why They Disagree

By Alex Hager, KUNC
Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Credits: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images; Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency; courtesy of Joby Bernstein

Climate Takes a Back Seat in High-Profile California Primary Campaigns. One Candidate Aims to Change That

By Liza Gross
Trabajadores agrícolas en un campo cerca de Bakersfield, California. Crédito: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A medida que aumentan las temperaturas, más trabajadores mueren en el campo

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous
Oil pumpjacks dot the landscape on the outskirts of Taft, Kern County, California. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

California’s Oil Country Hopes Carbon Management Will Provide Jobs. It May Be Disappointed

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Joshua Yeager
Landslides following a series of atmospheric river storms this month left three homes on-the-edge of a cliff in Dana Point, Calif. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Another Climate Impact Hits the Public’s Radar: A Wetter World Is Mudslide City

By Audrey Gray
The health of farmworkers is put at risk as growers continue to apply toxic fumigants around Watsonville, Calif. Credit: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California Pesticide Regulators’ Lax Oversight Violates Civil Rights Laws, Coalition Charges

By Liza Gross
A person walks along a flooded street as a powerful long-duration atmospheric river storm impacts California on Feb. 4 in Santa Barbara. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Atmospheric Rivers in California Create a Perfect Storm of Public Health Risks

By Kiley Price
Bales of plastic bottles at a recycling center in San Jose, Calif. Credit: Aric Crabb/Digital First Media/Bay Area News via Getty Images

A Battle Over Plastic Recycling Claims Heats Up in California Over ‘Truth in Labeling’ Law

By James Bruggers

California Isn’t Ready for a Megaflood. Or the Loss of Daniel Swain.

By Liza Gross
An air source heat pump repairman from Valiant replaces a Wilo pump inside an air source heat pump unit at a house in Folkestone, United Kingdom on Dec. 23, 2021. Credit: Andrew Aitchison/In pictures via Getty Images

Why a State-Led Coalition to Install More Heat Pumps Is a Big Deal for Climate Change

By Kristoffer Tigue
An aerial view of the Tijuana River crossing the Mexico-U.S. border on March 14, 2020. Credit: Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images

Sewage Across Borders: The Tijuana River Is Spewing Wastewater Into San Diego Amid Historic Storms, Which Could Threaten Public Health

By Kiley Price
People gather where a home was destroyed by a mudslide as a powerful atmospheric river storm continues to impact Southern California on Feb. 5 in Los Angeles, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Las Tormentas: L.A. County Meets a Next-Level Atmospheric River

By Audrey Gray
Smoke rises from the Oak Fire near Mariposa, Calif. on July 24, 2022. The wildfire burned through several thousand acres while Californians dealt with record-setting temperatures. Credit: David McNew/AFP via Getty Images

Converging Climate Risks Interact to Cause More Harm, Hitting Disadvantaged Californians Hardest

By Liza Gross
A view of Expo City during COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Dec. 12, 2023. Credit: Wang Dongzhen/Xinhua via Getty Images

COP28 Left a Vacuum California Leaders Aim to Fill

By Liza Gross
A large solar farm off Interstate 15 in Arrolime, Nevada. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

It Could Soon Get a Whole Lot Easier to Build Solar in the Western US

By Wyatt Myskow
Groundwater-fed irrigation of maize in Kabwe, Zambia. Credit: Mark Hughes

Groundwater Levels Around the World Are Dropping Quickly, Often at Accelerating Rates

By Liza Gross
An oil pumpjack in Kern County, California. Credit: Harika Maddala

California’s Oil Country Faces an ‘Existential’ Threat. Kern County Is Betting on the Carbon Removal Industry to Save It

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Inside Climate News, and Joshua Yeager, KVPR

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