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- Judge orders Greenpeace to pay $345m over Dakota Access pipeline protest Thu, 26 Feb 26, 10:55amGroup says case far from over after being found liable for defamation and other claims brought by energy firm
- Rage against the machine: a California community rallied against a datacenter – and won Sun, 8 Feb 26, 3:00amOrganizers in Monterey Park took inspiration from other US cities to fight against the construction of a giant datacenter
- Trump officials sue California cities over laws to restrict fossil fuels Tue, 6 Jan 26, 1:35pmSuit against San Francisco-area cities Petaluma and Morgan Hill latest attack on policies that seek to rein in oil and gas
- Mass power outages black out large parts of San Francisco and disrupt traffic Mon, 22 Dec 25, 7:20amTraffic signals failed in large portions of the California city while Waymo robotaxis stopped in streets and intersections
- Mass power outages affect 130,000 in San Francisco and disrupt traffic Mon, 22 Dec 25, 7:20amTraffic signals failed in large portions of the California city while Waymo robotaxis stopped in streets and intersections
- Trump administration planning to allow oil and gas drilling off California coast Wed, 12 Nov 25, 8:10amPlan, which Gavin Newsom, the governor, has said would be ‘dead on arrival’, will allow six lease sales from 2027 to 2030
- ‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling Sat, 9 Aug 25, 10:00pmUS Bureau of Land management is working to rapidly strip protections to largest tract of land in the US
- Fuel firms can challenge California’s emission limits, supreme court rules Sat, 21 Jun 25, 12:36amCourt votes to back challenge to state waiver that allows it to set tougher car emission standards than federal limits
- ‘Putting profit over people’: big gas is waging war on a California clean air rule Wed, 4 Jun 25, 11:00pmCoalition that includes SoCalGas, country’s largest gas utility, has launched fierce campaign against transition away from gas-fired appliances
- Fire reignites at California battery plant after evacuations amid toxic smoke Sat, 18 Jan 25, 2:06pmBlaze erupts in Monterey county at one of world’s largest battery storage plants, causing highway and school closures
- Fire reignites at California battery plant after prompting evacuations amid toxic smoke Sat, 18 Jan 25, 12:17pmBlaze erupted in Monterey county at one of world’s largest battery storage plants, leading to highway and school closures
- Big fire at California battery plant prompts evacuations amid toxic smoke Sat, 18 Jan 25, 5:00amBlaze erupts at one of world’s largest battery storage plants in Monterey county, leading to highway and school closures
- Big oil pushed to kill bill that would have made them pay for wildfire disasters Wed, 15 Jan 25, 10:00pmLegislation has new life in wake of Los Angeles catastrophe but US fossil-fuel industry is already mobilizing against it
- ‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train Tue, 3 Sep 24, 10:00pmThe new zero-emission train, known as Zemu, will run through an area that has long suffered from poor air quality. Will it be the start of a clean energy rail movement in the US?
- Very Powerful Storm To Impact The West Coast From Sunday Into Monday…Same System Can Result In A Mid-Week Severe Weather Outbreak And An East Coast Storm By Late Next Week Sat, 23 Oct 21, 8:00amMuch of the western US has been experiencing “extreme” or “exceptional” drought conditions in recent weeks, but that is likely to change in a big way in coming days.