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Mono Lake: Will state stop diverting its water to L.A.?

Environmentalists say it's past time for California to halt Los Angeles' diversion of Mono Lake's tributaries. L.A. says it needs the water.
Newsletter

To cope with climate change, California tries new crops

The future of farming in California is changing as the planet warms, prompting some to grow varieties resistant to heat or drought.
Solutions

California poised to ban new diesel trucks

Trucking companies say the deadlines for zero-emission trucks are unachievable and will cause “chaos and dysfunction” of California’s economy.
Impacts

Floods may taint more water in California farm towns

Nitrate contamination of well water has been a decades-long problem in the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys — and now stormwater has flushed more fertilizer and manure into aquifers.

Politics

Ray LaHood: Lack of federal support stalling high-speed rail projects

Between 1949 and 2017, the federal government invested only $10 billion in high-speed rail with $4 billion of that dedicated to the California project, compared to investments of $777 billion in aviation and over $2 trillion in highways. The federal government can’t expect transformative results with piecemeal funding. We must go big.

Politics

Will California’s shift to electric vehicles work?

California enacted a historic mandate to replace gasoline cars with electric vehicles within 12 years. But can the state meet its deadline?
Politics

Dan Walters: What California can learn from wave of storms

The series of snow and rain storms buffeting California this month contains lessons for politicians, if they pay attention.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Vanishing Bayous: On a boat at ground zero for sea level rise

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Department of Energy allocates $134 million for fusion funding

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Study finds Indigenous territories of Amazon rainforest can protect humans from disease

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New EPA proposal aims to strike down landmark climate "endangerment finding"

Wildfire burns historic Grand Canyon lodge as toxic gas leak complicates response

Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

CLIMATE
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Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation grants

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Wright and Burgum urge Europe to rethink methane curbs