I write Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate & culture. Former L.A. Times climate columnist and Desert Sun energy reporter. Also hosted Boiling Point and The Hatch podcasts.
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Nothing more fun than sharing a cool story about batteries and watching battery people snap at each other about the best language to describe battery stuff.
Batteries might save the world. Yay batteries!
Wildfires are undercutting the minor progress the U.S. has made to control ozone levels this century.
California is now home to the first major battery installation in the U.S. that can supply electricity for eight hours rather than four — a big step toward 24/7 clean energy: www.canarymedia.com/articles/lon... via @canarymedia.com
"There was a lot of happy dancing in the creek.” The Santa Monica Mountains’ last steelhead trout survived the Palisades fire — and even had babies: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @lilaseidman.bsky.social
From January through May, Southern California saw its most unhealthy air days in more than a decade. High temperatures were to blame, cooking pollution into smog: www.latimes.com/environment/...
Hexavalent chromium — a highly toxic, cancer-causing metal — stayed in the air for months after the 2025 L.A. fires: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @latimes.com
Researchers are studying whether exposure to wildfire smoke makes it harder to conceive children: www.hcn.org/articles/how... via @highcountrynews.org
Another poor winter could devastate lakes Mead and Powell, leaving the massive reservoirs nearly dry: insideclimatenews.org/news/0206202... via @jakebolster.bsky.social
Very curious why the official investigation into the cause of the Eaton fire isn't finished yet. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
After the fire, what remains of Santa Rosa Island? www.latimes.com/environment/... via @lilaseidman.bsky.social
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New surveillance footage and evidence from Southern California Edison confirms that a century-old, idle transmission line that the utility failed to remove ignited last year’s deadly Eaton fire, lawye...
California is now home to the first major battery installation in the U.S. that can supply electricity for eight hours rather than four — a big step toward 24/7 clean energy: www.canarymedia.com/articles/lon... via @canarymedia.com
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While new studies suggest that wildfire smoke could affect some aspects of fertility, more research is needed to determine just how cautious prospective parents should be with their smoke exposure.www.hcn.org
A destructive wildfire burned through a third of Santa Rosa Island. For one reporter, the loss isn't theoretical — it's a personal reckoning with a changing paradise.
Scientists feared the Santa Monica Mountains’ last endangered steelhead trout were wiped out by the Palisades fire. Then, they found them alive in Topanga Creek.
The Tumbleweed installation just went online in Kern County. It can store clean energy and discharge it for eight hours straight, a harbinger of what’s to…
After the Eaton and Palisades fires devastated Southern California, a highly toxic metal stayed in the air much longer and probably traveled much farther than expected, according to a new study.
Even a huge snowpack during the coming winter would only give the river basin states less than two years of storage before reservoirs returned to historic lows.
So far this year, the South Coast air basin, which includes Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, has seen 39 days when the concentration of lung-irritating ozone exceeded the fe...
The Tumbleweed installation just went online in Kern County. It can store clean energy and discharge it for eight hours straight, a harbinger of what’s to…
Tailpipe emissions standards implemented early this century helped reduce smog levels. Longer, more intense fire seasons have erased much of that progress.
