Why razing Joshua trees for solar farms isn’t always crazy
We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. President John F. Kennedy was talking about going to…
Why did California Gov. Gavin Newsom crush community solar?
After months of outcry, the California Public Utilities Commission voted Thursday to approve a solar energy program that critics are sure will fail spectacularly, making…
How ‘Sesame Street’ can prepare kids for climate disasters
Twenty-three years ago, “Sesame Street” aired a remarkable series of episodes during which the iconic puppets and their human friends must recover from a hurricane.…
Six months until November, climate change looms large
We’ve got six years to cut global carbon pollution nearly in half — and less than six months until a presidential election that could have…
Meet the comedians telling hilarious jokes about climate change
Lots of people enjoy laughing at billionaires — but it wasn’t just any billionaires who were the targets of Esteban Gast’s comedic jabs last week…
California farmers are low on water. Why not help them go solar?
It sounds like a climate solution everyone should be able to support: Let’s make it easier and cheaper for farmers with dwindling water supplies to…
Newsom’s appointees should stop delaying this great climate solution
We’ll have to wait a few more weeks to find out if Gov. Gavin Newsom is willing to push back against utility industry resistance to…
Here’s what Exxon’s CEO gets wrong about the climate crisis
Oil and gas conglomerate Exxon Mobil could be a key player in global efforts to combat the climate crisis — if only governments would remove…
It’s time for a grand bargain to end California’s solar squabbling
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s appointees could vote next week on a widely criticized plan that climate activists, solar installers and labor unions say would pointlessly slow…
Climate change is a star in some of Hollywood’s most popular movies
I never saw the 2017 film “Justice League.” But if I had, I would have been treated to a scene in which Batman (Ben Affleck)…
Here are the 32 coal plants still powering the American West
Over the last two decades, 21 coal-fired power plants have shut down across the Western U.S. Twenty-one down, 32 to go. Those numbers are based…
Disneyland will never be completed. Neither will healing the Earth
It didn’t take much for Eric Swenson to start a chain reaction that in less than two years would prompt the world’s most influential entertainment…
Changing our lives is scary. The climate crisis is way scarier
“I want you to stop changing your lives, OK? We’ve been conditioned to think that change is good and exciting, but what if it’s not?…
Repowering the West, Part 5!
In January 2020, I sat down with my editors at the L.A. Times office and pitched them on a series of stories that would eventually…
Hurry up with the electric cars, Disneyland. There’s no time to waste
When I broke the news last week that Disneyland is planning to ditch gas engines and make a long-overdue switch to electric or hybrid cars…
Disneyland is ditching gas cars at Autopia. It’s a great first step for Tomorrowland
The air tastes putrid. The traffic is terrible. The engines are loud, the oil-stained roadways ugly and antiquated. This is Autopia, part of Walt Disney’s…
Meet the writers pitching Hollywood studios on climate change stories
Nicole Conlan writes jokes for Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.” But her master’s in urban planning from USC and her experiences growing up in…
Extreme heat is deadly. Californians need to pay up to protect themselves
“If there is one idea in this book that might save your life, it is this: The human body, like all living things, is a…
Why are residents rejecting Chiquita Canyon Landfill relief?
After enduring rancid landfill odors for roughly a year, some Santa Clarita Valley residents have reached their breaking point. A high-temperature chemical reaction has caused…
Can the merger of two oil giants benefit the climate?
Welcome to Boiling Point! My name is Tony Briscoe. I’m the air quality and environmental health reporter at the L.A. Times. I’m filling in for…