Tony Barboza is a reporter who covers air quality and the environment with a focus on Southern California. He has been on staff at the Los Angeles Times since 2006, is a graduate of Pomona College and completed a Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado. News tips? Send messages or documents privately using the Signal smartphone app: (213) 421-1511.
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Global warming pushed temperatures into record territory in 2020, in effect tying 2016 as the hottest year on record, according to new data.
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A new study blames climate change for worsening pollution and health risks in both urban and rural communities in recent years
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Los Angeles County is seeing the beginning of the dreaded “surge on top of a surge on top of a surge” in coronavirus infections.
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Years after pledging action, California regulators have filed suit against companies connected to the contaminated Exide Technologies plant in Vernon.
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The reductions are probably a short-lived effect of stay-at-home orders and the resulting economic downturn, and are bound to vanish with a COVID vaccine.
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L.A. began 2020 with a clean-air streak but is ending with its worst pollution in years
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Auditor slams California regulators for Exide cleanup delays, says cost could top $650 million
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Residents of the massive cleanup zone surrounding the shuttered Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon marched to downtown Los Angeles on Monday evening to protest a bankruptcy court’s decision to allow the company to abandon the heavily contaminated site.
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Pollution overall remained well below the 2020 climate target, which the state hit four years early, in 2016.
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A bankruptcy court says Exide Technologies can abandon its toxic battery recycling plant in Vernon, leaving a massive cleanup to California taxpayers.