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California and Los Angeles

  • 8/12/22: "The Coming California Megastorm" NYT 
  • 8/12/22 "If not by drought then by megaflood: Climate change may have doubled risk of disastrous flooding in California"
  • 8/4/22: "History of DDT ocean dumping off L.A. coast even worse than expected, EPA finds" LAT
  • 3/23/22: "The deceptively simple plan to replenish California’s groundwater" NatGeo
  • 1/5/22: "DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: The potential of deep carbon capture and storage in the Delta and Central Valley"
  • 12/11/21: LAT: "State tells San Joaquin Valley agencies that groundwater plans are flawed" 
  • 11/20/21: "Wildfires in California Killed Thousands of Giant Sequoias" NYT
  • 11/10/21: "Meet the formerly incarcerated fire crew protecting California from wildfires" LAT
  • 11/5/21: "Hope after wildfire: Tiny sequoias could grow into giants" LAT
  • 9/3/21:"Los Angeles speeds up net-zero transition plans by a decade to 2035"
  • 9/3/21:"LA100: The Los Angeles 100% Renewable Energy Study" Complete Report
  • 8/27/21: "Lake Tahoe Suffocates With Smoke" NYT
  • 7/21/21:'California moves to cut off water to thousands of farmers, as drought dries up rivers" SacBee
  • 7/16/21: "Why Does California Have So Many Wildfires?" NYT
  • 6/12/21: "Hoover Dam reservoir reaches record-low water levels"
  • 5/15/21: "The California Air Resources Board Challenges Our Carbon Credits Investigations. We Respond" ProPublica
  • 5/11/21: "Air Pollution From Livestock and Fertilizers Kills Nearly 18,000 People Yearly"
  • 5/4/21: "The toxic, soupy biomass choking water systems in California" High Country News
  • 4/27/21: "DDT Dump Site Off The Coast Of Los Angeles Significantly Larger Than Scientists Anticipated" KPCC broadcast
  • 4/26/21: "Stunning DDT dump site off L.A. coast much bigger than scientists expected"  LAT 
  • 2/12/21: "LA's Park To Playa Trail: After 20 Years You Can Now Hike From Crenshaw To The Beach"
  • 1/29/21: "State Habitat Restoration Project Breaks Ground at Southern End of Salton Sea"
  • 12/31/20: Ballona Wetlands Restoration divides environmentalists, LAT
  • 12/24/20: Amid climate crisis, California approves far more drilling permits
  • 12/10/20: "Tribe urges court to toss Westlands' federal water contract"
  • 10/19/20: In One Week in September nature went haywire LAT
  • 10/6/20: TESS DUNHAM: California’s Three-Legged Stool for Improving Groundwater Quality: Porter Cologne, SGMA and the Recycled Water Policy – How Do They Work Together?
  • 10/1/20: No more gas-powered cars_ Why California's shift to zero-emission vehicles is huge 
  • 10/1/20: How a gas car ban could fail in California
  • 9/24/20: "These 5 Stats Show Just How Devastating California’s Wildfires Have Been—So Far"
  • 9/20/20: Mike Davis: "California’s Desert Fauna Will Never Recover"​
  • 9/15/20: "In a Dry State, Farmers Use Oil Wastewater to Irrigate Their Fields, but is it Safe?"
  • 8/25/20: "‘The forest is not gone’: California’s ancient redwoods survive wildfires" Guardian
  • 8/22/20: "California wildfires reach historic scale and are still growing" WaPo
  • 8/24/20: "The Climate Crisis Has Already Arrived. Just Look to California's Abnormal Wildfires" Guardian/RSN
  • 8/14/20: As California’s recycling industry struggles, companies and consumers are forced to adapt LAT
  • Heal the Bay: LA River Report card (PDF of entire report)
  • Is state getting soft in climate battle? LAT
  • Against the Current on LA River
  • A steady generator of controversy: As activists called for closure of Valley power plant, DWP sat on the fact it was leaking 9/27/20 LAT
  • Don’t build gas plant, climate activists urge LAT 11/19/19
  • Gas plants are focus of climate fight
  • Super-Emitters’ In California Release A Third Of The State’s Methane
  • PG&E about to cut off power as climate change makes CA fires worse.
  • 4 coastal power plants may get a reprieve amid outage worries
  • How close are you in LA to a toxic site? 
  • California raises the caution flag on ‘green jobs’
  • How Hot is it Going to Get in LA?
  • Paradise Lost: Homelessness in Los Angeles (7 mins, YouTube)
  • LA Should Plant More Jacarandas
  • LA Times OpEd: Salton Sea is an environmental disaster
  • Sierra Club activists challenge LADWP on gas fired power plants
  • Who keeps buying California's scarce water? Saudi Arabia 
  • Rainy weather washes away drought conditions in LA
  • From paradise to landfill: beloved California beach covered in trash
  • Mayor's Report on Resilient Los Angeles (Jul2018)
  • Concrete is using up the world's sand
  • Maps show where wildfires have burned over and over again in LA county
  • How LA is conserving water
  • The shot hole borer beetle could kill 38 percent of all trees in LA​
  • 11/30/21: "Drought has big impacts on California agriculture" CalMatters
  • 12/11/21: LAT: "State tells San Joaquin Valley agencies that groundwater plans are flawed" 
  • 6/1/21: "California's snowpack is 0% of June 1 average. Here's what that means." SFGate
  • 5/6/21: "Los Angeles is the largest US city to be certified as a biodiversity haven"
  • 4/19/21: "Water Wars Are Heating Up Between States" 
  • 12/25/20: "Will California finally fulfill its promise to fix the Salton Sea?"
  • 10/7/20: California will dedicate 30% of its land to conservation by 2030, Gov. Gavin Newsom announces
  • 10/1/20: "In ‘a Huge Victory,’ California’s Joshua Tree Becomes the First Plant Protected Due to Climate Change"
  • 10/1/20: "No more gas-powered cars? Why California’s shift to zero-emission vehicles is ‘huge’" LAT
  • 10/1/20: "How a gas car ban could fail in Calif."
  • 9/23/20: "Governor Newsom’s Executive Order: No New Fossil-Fuel Vehicles in California by 2035"
  • 9/17/20: "The science connecting wildfires to climate change" NatGeo
  • 9/4/20: "Dome Fire's destruction of Joshua trees reminds us of climate change's carnage"
  • 8/21/20: "California Has Australian Problems Now"
  • 8/17/20: Some California cities think they’re safe from sea level rise, they're not 
  • LA County: We Need More Air Quality Management District Monitoring Stations 
  • A drop of irony in water plan LAT LADWP Owens Lake
  • Plan to restore Ballona wetlands divides activists
  • Clean Energy Triple Play for L.A. County Schools
  • pLAn: Garcetti's Green New Deal for LA
  • California will lose 389 bird species to climate change (Audubon Report, 10/30/19) 
  • The mystery of the sea gull guano on Catalina Island
  • Defensibleapp shows fire danger all over California
  • Move Over Wall Street, People’s Banks Are Coming to Replace You 8/25/19
  • On California’s Lost Coast: Sea Lions, Surf and Squiggly Roads NYT 8/26/19
  • The LA River and the future of LA
  • Clean Energy for LA by 2030
  • Clean Energy for LA full report from Food & Water Watch
  • A new generation of activists in Wilmington struggle for environmental justice
  • Protect Western state native artifacts and lands
  • California defies Trump claim
  • LA's tap water rated better than bottled water
  • LAT: Scientists Warn of California droughts​
  • Local sea level rise if nothing is done about climate change. 
  • Climate change as permanent phenomenon in CA
  • LA is on the verge of becoming 100% renewable!
  • Stormwater: the future of LA water? 
  • Restoring the LA River for Angelenos 12/26/19
  • Heal-the-Bay-River-Report-Card-Annual-Report-2019
  • LA River Floodplain map challenges revitalization plans​​
  • The Fate of the Forest in the Southwest US​
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