Want to fight climate change? Then talk about climate change
When people ask me what they can do to support climate progress, one piece of advice I give again and again is to annoy their…
Not a great year for climate change at the Oscars
And the Oscar for best climate change film of 2024 goes to ...“The Wild Robot,” a beautiful animated movie that takes place in a world…
Longer flights, more climate pollution for college football teams
When UCLA, UC Berkeley and Stanford ditched the fabled Pac-12 athletic conference, most college sports fans probably weren’t thinking about what the changes would mean…
Democrats who make nice with Trump aren’t helping on climate
What do you do, as a politician, when your lawfully elected opponents reveal they have nothing but contempt for the Constitution, rule of law and…
Forget Trump’s wrecking ball. Here’s how to treat America’s public lands
Russell Scofield remembers when federal officials first started getting applications to build solar farms on public lands. It was the mid-2000s, and he was working…
Trump’s lies are dragging down democracy, journalism and the climate
A single social media post illuminates the precarious state of the American democratic experiment.When President Trump said last week that the military had “just entered…
The Los Angeles fires are no excuse to slow down on clean energy
If we want to build a safer future for Los Angeles, we can’t keep repeating the mistakes of the past.So I was disappointed to learn…
Farewell to Ivanpah, the world’s ugliest solar plant
Sometimes, government makes a bad bet.Case in point: the Ivanpah solar project. Maybe you’ve seen the unsightly, blindingly bright towers while traveling from L.A. to…
The Republican Party is betraying a devastated Los Angeles
Try to imagine how Americans would have reacted last fall — after Hurricane Helene slammed Florida’s Big Bend region, killing dozens of people — if…
The L.A. Times is starting a climate change podcast
The world has changed since I started writing Boiling Point five years ago. There are more solar farms, fewer coal plants and more movies about…
Los Angeles is a climate disaster. The fires will change nothing
Los Angeles is burning. Fossil fuel companies laid the kindling. Soon the world will stop caring.I’m sorry for sounding callous, but it’s true.You’ve probably seen…
Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Landman’ needs less fossil fuel propaganda
A recent episode of “Landman” — the latest western soap opera dreamed up by “Yellowstone” co-creator Taylor Sheridan — was packed with thrilling interpersonal drama…
Next year, Honda’s Rose Parade float should be electric
Shivering in the early-morning air as the Rose Parade rolled down Pasadena’s Colorado Boulevard on New Year’s Day, I was thrilled to see that the…
Jimmy Carter tried to fix the planet. The oil industry fought back
In the renewable energy arena, Jimmy Carter is perhaps best known for having solar panels installed on the roof of the White House — panels…
Let’s get real about climate change, affordable energy
Aliso Canyon is here to stay.After eight years of study, the California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously last week not to close the San Fernando…
After an oil spill, he took a vow of silence. Today he preaches kindness
Before watching “Planetwalker,” a short documentary released this month by L.A. Times Studios and Bloomberg Green Docs, I had never heard of John Francis. When…
Newsom loves fighting Big Oil. Gas utilities? Meh
Gov. Gavin Newsom has never hesitated to go to bat for electric vehicles.Even as slowing sales growth and former President Trump’s reelection have called into…
Newsom’s failure to close Aliso Canyon is hurting us all
Remember that time a natural gas field in the hills above the San Fernando Valley sprung a record-breaking leak, spewing 109,000 tons of heat-trapping methane…
Trump can’t stop clean energy. But he can slow it down
The question isn’t whether the energy transition will happen. It’s how quickly we can shift from lung-damaging, planet-warming fossil fuels to clean energy, and how…
L.A.’s massive new solar farm is cheap and impressive. More, please
Flying north from the City Hall helipad, it was hard to shake the feeling that Los Angeles never really ends.Downtown skyscrapers and Dodger Stadium parking…