Hayley Smith is an environment reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she covers the many ways climate change is reshaping life in California, including drought, floods, wildfires and deadly heat. She previously worked on the breaking news team. Originally from Miami, she holds a master’s degree in journalism from USC.
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The 2001 rule protects national forestland in California and many other states from road construction and timber harvesting.
It would take more than 9.5 million square miles of trees to offset the emissions of the world’s 200 largest fossil fuel companies, according to new research.
The canceled awards were issued under the Biden administration and primarily focused on carbon capture and sequestration and decarbonization initiatives.
Experts say recent changes at FEMA, NOAA and the U.S. Forest Service could make a challenging fire season in California even worse.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said Wednesday that the agency plans to roll back rules regulating mercury air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District is poised to vote on regulations that would limit emissions of nitrogen oxides — the key pollutants that form smog.
The rare about-face came at the urging of a group of Democratic California lawmakers led by Sen. Adam Schiff.
Supreme Court says development is too often delayed or blocked by environmental impact claims.
A teenager was arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was killed with a flare gun in Huntington Beach.