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Gray industrial towers and stacks rise up from behind the pitched roofs of warehouse buildings against a gray-blue sky, with a row of yellow-gold barrels with black lids lined up in the foreground to the right of a portable toilet.
California Isn't on Track To Meet Its Climate Change Mandates. It's Not Even Close.
A row of cows stands in individual cages along a line of light-colored enclosures, placed along a dirt path under a blue sky dotted with white puffy clouds.
A Battle Is Underway Over California’s Lucrative Dairy Biogas Market
A Black woman with long, black brains wears a black Chicago Bulls windbreaker jacket with red and white stripes as she stands at the top of a short staircase in a housing complex and rests her left hand on the metal railing. She smiles slightly while looking directly at the camera.
Los Angeles County Is Testing AI's Ability To Prevent Homelessness
A close-up of a rusty white sign with blue text that reads "CAUTION HIGH PRESSURE GAS PIPELINE" and "BEFORE EXCAVATING IN AREA CALL TOLL FREE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY" and a toll-free number, alongside a SoCalGas logo in blue. In the background is a chain link fence, a leafy tree, and a paved road on a gloomy day.
SoCalGas Could Pay Penalty for Claiming Its Natural Gas Was 'Renewable'
Multi-colored shipping containers sit on large container ships under gray-and-yellow striped cranes in an industrial-looking port with a gray sky in the background
The Port of Los Angeles Promised to Measure Pollution; Its Equipment Keeps Breaking
Women strikers wear purple and hold black and yellow signs that read in large block print "PATIENT CARE IS IN CRISIS" and "PATIENT NEEDS NOT CORPORATE GREED"
Kaiser Strike Begins as 68,000 Employees Stage Walkout at California Hospitals
An aerial view of wetlands in the foreground and a gas plant with smokestacks, gas drums, and large industrial buildings painted blue in center view, with a beach and the ocean visible on the far left and a city fading into the distance.
Despite Phase-Out, Three SoCal Natural Gas Plants to Stay Open Through 2026
A masked woman wearing a red T-shirt sits facing away from the camera with the text on the back of her shirt visible, reading "Chinatown Community for Equitable Development" in English and other languages. She faces a woman wearing a gray pants suit and a pink shirt underneath holding a wired microphone and addressing a seated crowd in an outdoor courtyard.
Landlord Orders L.A. Renters To Pay Or Leave Chinatown Apartment Building
A woman with white hair, a green shirt, khaki pants and sneakers smiles as she leans against the handle of a door open to the sidewalk in front of the Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory, with the neighborhood businesses along the sidewalk and at the intersection visible in the distance.
Boyle Heights 'Resilience Hub' Responds to Climate Change With Social Change
A white truck and a white compact car pull up to a security kiosk on a road in front of a green hillside under a blue sky
CPUC, SoCalGas Reach $71 Million Settlement Over Aliso Canyon Gas Blowout
Two clear beakers with orange plastic caps sit side to side on a table, one labeled "CLEANED WASTEWATER" and the other "AFTER REVERSE OSMOSIS"
Don't Call It 'Toilet to Tap' — California Plans To Turn Sewage Into Drinking Water
A homeless encampment consisting of umbrellas, tarps, a shopping cart, a washing machine and other debris spills out from the sidewalk and into the street, in front of parked cars.
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