Scientists race to restore Calif.'s largest — and contaminated — freshwater lake
Scientists are racing to restore Clear Lake, California's largest freshwater lake, which has been struggling with algal ...
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Energy Emergency and Environmental Rollbacks: What Recent Executive Orders Mean for Environmental Policies and Regulated Industry
Within hours of his inauguration on January 20, 2025, Trump signed 26 executive orders, several of which directly altered United States ...
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Amid shouts of ‘shut it down!’ hundreds slam agencies over Eaton fire waste site
Federal officials apologize for not giving San Gabriel Valley mayors a heads-up that a hazardous collection site from the ...
Los Angeles fire cleanup complicated by 'unprecedented' number of EVs with combustible lithium-ion batteries
California wildfire cleanup is complicated by highly combustible lithium-ion batteries found in electric and hybrid vehicles popular in Los Angeles County.
U.S. Eyes Threats To Monarch Butterflies, Survival Tied To California
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...
Sean Duffy Claims More Pollution Will Make Cars Cheaper
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy immediately moved to roll back fuel efficiency standards moments after being sworn in ...
The L.A. wildfires left neighborhoods choking in ash and toxic air. Residents demand answers
Nearly two weeks after the Eaton fire forced Claire Robinson to flee her Altadena home, she returned, donning a white hazmat ...
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EPA makes major move against Trump administration — and it could ignite a flurry of legal battles
Part of Trump's executive order states that EVs are unaffordable and unbeneficial to the American public. However, EV owners ...
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Monterey County may get water, soil samples report by end of week
At Wednesday afternoon’s County of Monterey briefing, Ricardo Encarnacion, bureau chief and County of Monterey director of ...
New EPA chief Lee Zeldin has an ambitious agenda — and a plan to keep courts from overturning it
President Trump’s first executive orders faced court challenges barely before the ink had dried. But the former Long Island ...
Senate Confirms Lee Zeldin to Head E.P.A.
The former New York congressman has little experience in environmental policy. He is expected to follow orders to weaken ...
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Fire debris cleanup
As the Environmental Protection Agency starts the first phase of removing hazardous debris from areas destroyed by the ...