Julie Cart, CalMatters
Julie Cart is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has worked as an environmental reporter, sportswriter and national correspondent during her three decades with the Los Angeles Times.
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Automakers face global challenges obtaining battery materials, including China's stranglehold on the industry and mining in Africa. Will they have everything they need to ramp up electric car production — including minerals like cobalt and lithium — and at what cost to the economy and the environment?
On the ballot this November is Prop 30, which seeks to tax millionaires in order to create a Clean Air Fund that would help make electric vehicles more accessible. But the fact that a private rideshare company, Lyft, authored and subsidized the proposition has raised questions about where the money would actually go.
In a repeat of last year’s criticism, legislators were told there’s “a very real risk” the cap-and-trade program won’t meet California’s greenhouse gas goals. The state air board is revising the program.
As drought grips most of California, water thefts have increased to record levels. Thieves tap into hydrants, pump water from rivers and break into remote water stations and tanks.
By century’s end, rapidly rising seas could engulf California infrastructure, cripple economies and force a retreat from the Coast.
Action prevents the government from disposing of small coastal land parcels.
California's program to control greenhouse gas emissions is in limbo