L.A.’s fires reshaped the city. They may also have triggered changes in our bodies
It’s been seven months since I looked up from my desk here in The Times’ El Segundo office and saw smoke roiling over the horizon.The…
A climate-saving lithium mine could doom an endangered desert flower
Two scenes. Two storytellers. Two visions for a climate-altered American West.On an overcast spring morning, I hopped a low metal fence off a lonely dirt…
California needs a little less farmland, a lot more solar power
Amid a string of setbacks for clean energy — tariffs, the Trump administration, Tesla’s declining sales numbers — California officials delivered a big win last…
The power grid battle that’s dividing California environmentalists
In an early episode of the TV series “Lost,” the plane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious island are running low on water. A fight…
The Dodgers lobbied on a Chavez Ravine reparations bill. They won’t say how.
When Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill last year that could have led to reparations for Mexican American families forced from their homes in Chavez…
GOP budget bill would slaughter America’s cleanest, cheapest energy
Masked federal agents are snatching up immigrants. It’s been less than two weeks since the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. President Trump’s long-threatened tariffs could…
America is moving backward on climate. Here’s how Hollywood can help
An unprecedented heat wave is baking Seattle, and Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital is overwhelmed.Doctors scramble to treat people with heat stroke and pregnant women going…
Seeking solace, and finding hard truths, on California’s Highway 395
As we drove north along Highway 395 — passing the salty remains of Owens Lake, the Museum of Western Film History, the geothermal plant outside…
What do the Dodgers and Giants have in common? An iconic ad — for Big Oil
Long before Clayton Kershaw donned No. 22 and Fernando Valenzuela wore No. 34, another number told fans it was time for Dodger baseball: 76.Union Oil…
Conservative billionaire pitches massive gas plant to power data centers
Donald Trump had just been elected president when I first visited the sprawling Wyoming ranch of conservative billionaire Phil Anschutz in late 2016.But my tour…
Nuclear reactors help power Los Angeles. Should we panic, or be grateful?
The radiation containment domes at Arizona’s Palo Verde Generating Station were, truth be told, pretty boring to look at: giant mounds of concrete, snap a…
Warren Buffett’s successor got his start selling clean energy. Now he defends coal
Warren Buffett has invested tens of billions of dollars in fossil fuels, propping up some of the nation’s dirtiest coal plants as well as major…
Climate change is cooking Los Angeles. Does Karen Bass care?
Los Angeles is still reeling from its most devastating wildfires ever. In the next few months, temperatures could hit triple digits. Yet Mayor Karen Bass…
What L.A. can learn about wildfires from Yosemite’s Rim fire recovery
Happy Thursday. I’m Corinne Purtill, a science and health reporter for The Times, filling in this week for the incomparable Sammy Roth.Last week my family…
We should move faster on clean energy. Some lawmakers want to pause
Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, one of the most powerful people in Sacramento, just rammed a bill through his chamber that would place a six-year pause…
Trump loves coal. Lithium-ion batteries, maybe not
I didn’t know much about email newsletters when Sarah Day Owen, an editor at the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, asked if I would start…
It’s ‘certainly possible’ utility sparked Eaton fire. But climate change made it worse
Before sitting down with Pedro Pizarro, president and chief executive officer of Edison International, I gave some thought to how I would ask him about…
The rooftop solar debate that never ends
For the latest episode of the “Boiling Point” podcast, I invited two of the most prominent voices in California’s long-running rooftop solar debate to hash…
Californians pay too much for electricity. Here are three bold solutions
Politicians love to chase easy answers. Alas, when it comes to California’s rising electric rates, there aren’t any.If limiting rate increases were simple, elected officials…
Speaking truth to Trump on climate change
The 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or…