Despite residents’ health complaints and community pushback, the airport’s operations continue to expand, intensifying concerns about its health effects.
Companies are using a shortcut to build ever larger centers that use diesel generators as an emergency power source.
Skin rashes, breathing difficulties and “generational rage” led residents to join a nationwide push against companies accused of endangering health and the environment.
A Democrat-on-Democrat Assembly race for a district facing extreme weather could shape the state’s climate policy.
Study uncovers thousands of undocumented quakes, underscoring the link between injection sites and seismic activity.
The data is clear: The village of Loving in the Permian Basin has been hit hard by waves of pollutants from Big Oil, yet the EPA hasn’t acted to force a cleanup.
A new state law mandates that oil companies put up money to plug wells before acquiring them. It could fail its first big test, putting taxpayers on the hook.
California Air Resources Board ordered staff not to engage with ex-colleague after he questioned gas industry claims.
The legacy of fossil fuel development endures in leaks, spills and neglect.
Residents and scientists had called for research on health risks for years, while industry campaign denied links.
Legislation aims to shine a light on corporate climate pollution and carbon offsets.
New studies call for reparations from oil companies and governments responsible for climate change.
Watchdogs call for creation of an environmental justice office, better monitoring of Clean Air Act violations.
Critics call for removal of state agency’s economic mandate.
Incentives for cow manure methane prop up gas infrastructure — can California do better?
Low-income communities of color bear the pollution burden of California’s incentive-based dairy gas climate plan.
Activists get a victory in their fight to protect South L.A. residents from a Catholic Archdiocese-owned oil drill site.
After industry lobbyists halted the oil and gas well safe-distance law, their well-funded referendum could sway voters with misinformation.
Links between environmental exposures and maternal health outcomes remain underexplored, despite recent efforts to catch up.
COVID-19 ravaged Indigenous tribes in New Mexico. State and federal data reveal how a long legacy of uranium exposure may have made them uniquely vulnerable.