Climate & Environment
With the environment constantly changing due to global warming, future generations will have a chance only if the current population takes sustainable actions.
Sept. 15, 2024
It’s hard to care about anything when you are in a pit of climate anxiety. Then I remember the beautiful, bittersweet world I want to show the next generation.
Sept. 11, 2024
World & Nation
Iran-backed Houthi rebels set off explosions on a Red Sea vessel carrying about 1 million barrels of crude oil.
Aug. 30, 2024
Even before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed Trump for president, he repeatedly disappointed environmentalists, who said he had abandoned his green roots.
Aug. 24, 2024
California
Los Angeles has agreed to spend at least $20.8 million on improvements to the Hyperion sewage plant after a massive spill of untreated wastewater in 2021.
Aug. 20, 2024
Olympics
Many of the Olympic triathletes who swam in the Seine River this week say the current was a much bigger problem than any pollution they encountered.
Aug. 4, 2024
The South Coast Air Quality Management District votes to require rail yard owners and operators, including BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad, to aggressively reduce lung-irritating nitrogen-oxide emissions through 2050.
Aug. 2, 2024
Opinion
Southern California’s air remains so dirty because regulators haven’t cleaned up rail yards, ports and soot-spewing diesel trucks, trains and ships that move cargo in and out of the region.
Los Angeles should help lead California and the country in banning plastic ground covering. It’s expensive, unhealthy and terrible for the environment.
Aug. 5, 2024
CEQA has been abused for decades to block affordable housing and drive up costs, taking the greatest toll on young residents and Latino households.
July 19, 2024