Hayley Smith

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California will fare better than other states as Trump guts climate reporting rules

For nearly 20 years, thousands of industrial plants across the U.S. and California have been required to track…

Bidders show interest in geothermal in the California desert

For the first time in nearly a decade, federal officials on Tuesday auctioned off leases for new geothermal…

Trump told polluters to email him for an exemption. In California, three places have already been approved

Three industrial facilities in California have received exemptions from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to emit a carcinogenic…

California’s signature climate effort is up for renewal — and it’s a fight

Heat rises from the stacks of the ConocoPhillips refinery in Wilmington in October 2022. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)As…