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It's going to get hotter and we can't do much about reversing it, a UCLA study indicates. You could say that the new mantra is adapt, adapt, adapt.
The debate about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a procedure that involves drilling thousands of feet below the earth's surface to extract oil and gas, has come to Los Angeles.
Paper or Plastic? After action taken today by the L.A. City Council, the phrase may soon be out of date.
As far as environmental topics go, plastic bags are among the top targets. But paper has baggage, too, and Los Angeles is poised to take on both with the strictest bag ban ordinance in the country.
The greening of the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will help to sustain one of the region's last big industries.
Special districts fight turf wars while cities fight off escalating rates. Has the system that manages water in the L.A. Basin broken down?
Politics and unaccountable regional governments are a costly mixture for water consumers.
"The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has failed to take advantage of the tremendous environmental and economic potential that solar power offers our region."
Is Los Angeles resistant of planning or is it over-planned?
Dog owners were thrown a bone Tuesday evening as the Santa Monica City Council voted 6 to 1 to establish a pilot program for a dog park on Santa Monica State Beach.
Customers could see an average of $2.58, a 5.5% increase, added to their bills beginning in January.
In what is the strictest bag ban to be explored to date, the Los Angeles Board of Public Works met Wednesday morning and unanimously voted to support a ban of plastic and paper bags in the city of Los Angeles.
Development and redevelopment projects in Los Angeles will soon have to comply with new regulations concerning sustainability and rainwater.
Claiming "carbon neutrality" for a massive construction project that will have a usable life measured in decades is beyond the ability of good science (and common sense), but it sounds good in press briefings.
Farmers Field and Ed Roski's competing stadium proposal are bad for you because they have been used to accelerate a game-changing shift in land use authority.
Shoppers in Santa Monica need to dig out that reusable grocery bag in the bottom of their junk drawer as the city banned plastic bags at grocery stores.
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