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TOPSHOT - A driver charges his electric vehicle at a charging station as the California Independent System Operator announced a statewide electricity Flex Alert urging conservation to avoid blackouts in Monterey Park, California on August 31, 2022. - Californians were told August 31, 2022 not to charge their electric vehicles during peak hours, just days after the state said it would stop selling gas-powered cars, as the aging electricity grid struggles with a fearsome heatwave. Temperatures as high as 112 degrees Fahrenheit (44 degrees Celsius) were forecast in some Los Angeles suburbs as a huge heat dome bakes a swathe of the western United States. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
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California EV sales are falling. Is it just temporary, or a threat to state climate goals?

California electric vehicle sales dropped significantly in the last half of 2023, raising questions about the state’s ability to phase out gas-powered cars.

Feb. 15, 2024

LOS ANGELES, CA-JANUARY 15, 2014: The USC marching band leads a parade on Figueroa St. in Downtown Los Angeles beside the Wilshire Grand Project, seen in background on February 15, 2014. The parade kicked what is being billed as the world's largest continuous concrete pour, expected to last nearly 20 hours. requiring 2100 truck loads delivering 21,200 cubic yards of concrete, weighing 82 million pounds. The 73 story, 1100 foot tall Wilshire Grand Center will be the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River, its developers say, when its 160 foot spire is included. (Photo by Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Opinion: Cement is a big part of the carbon problem. It doesn’t have to be

Feb. 12, 2024

Lincoln County Commissioner Varlin Bigbee is walking through dense pinyon-juniper woodlands that may be harvested as feedstock to make methanol, an additive used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of container ships calling at Los Angeles ports.

Love them or loathe them, pinyon-juniper woodlands are a growing biofuel battleground

Feb. 11, 2024

Long Beach CA - December 16: A view of the Los Angeles River at dusk after a storm in Long Beach, CA on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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The unloved L.A. River just prevented a flood disaster. Can more of its water be saved?

Feb. 8, 2024

FILE - Residents evacuate on a motorcycle amid wildfires into Vina del Mar, Chile, Feb. 3, 2024. Scientists say climate change creates conditions that make the drought and wildfires now hitting South America more likely. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

How climate change contributes to wildfires like Chile’s

Feb. 6, 2024

El Niño and climate change are supercharging incoming storm, SoCal’s biggest this winter

Feb. 2, 2024

Climate activist Greta Thunberg acquitted in disruption of London oil industry conference

Feb. 2, 2024

Climate activist Greta Thunberg goes on trial in London for blocking oil and gas conference

Feb. 1, 2024

California isn’t prepared for turbocharged storms like the ones we’re getting this week

Jan. 31, 2024

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