Next year’s Super Bowl needs more clean energy ads
“It’s not time to escape. It’s time to engage.” So said Matthew McConaughey during a 2022 Super Bowl ad for Salesforce, touting the software company’s…
Who should pay for climate solutions? The debate is heating up
Confronting the climate crisis won’t be cheap. California is trying to figure out who will pay. Under a series of proposals being considered by Gov.…
Hate the storm? Start getting serious about climate change
You know how oil and gas pollution is supposed to bring not only hotter heat waves, drier droughts and bigger wildfires, but also more intense…
Biden’s solar plan sounds scary. But it beats climate change
A single federal agency oversees nearly a quarter-billion acres of public lands — and those acres could play a key role in fighting climate change…
Karen Bass faces a climate test as she chooses DWP’s next leader
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has just over a month to choose the city’s next clean-energy leader. With the L.A. Department of Water and Power’s…
The lithium revolution has arrived at California’s Salton Sea
I’m finally convinced: California’s Imperial Valley will be a major player in the clean energy transition. After a dozen years of engineering, permitting and financing,…
Are dams good or bad?
The latest forecast has arrived for the West’s largest reservoir — and, stop me if you’ve heard this one, it’s not great. Federal scientists are…
Meet John Curtis, the Utah Republican who cares about climate change
Solving climate change would be a hell of a lot easier if the Republican Party would get on board. Can John Curtis make it happen?…
It’s 2024. Time to start acting like climate change actually matters
My introduction to climate change politics came via Al Franken. Yes, Al Franken, the “Saturday Night Live” comedian-turned U.S. senator who resigned from Congress amid…
Who will make sure L.A. reaches 100% clean energy by 2035?
Few people have a more important role to play in confronting the climate crisis than the head of the L.A. Department of Water and Power.…
Stand down, Smokey Bear. Burnie the Bobcat wants good fires
The newly installed billboard off Interstate 80 offers a badly needed twist on eight decades of firefighting dogma. Its message: “Only you can decide our…
How I learned to stop worrying and love rooftop solar power
As global leaders celebrated a hard-fought agreement to triple the world’s renewable energy production and transition away from fossil fuels, an attorney for the state…
I spent a week in Montana coal country. Here’s what surprised me
There was a lump of coal waiting for me at the hotel in Montana. Technically it was a stress ball, designed to resemble the fossil…
The California cities leading on electric buses
Hi everyone, my name is Tony Briscoe. I’m the Los Angeles Times’ air quality and environmental health reporter. I’m filling in for Sammy Roth in…
Can changing cows’ diets help California fight global warming?
Hi everyone, my name is Tony Briscoe. I’m the Los Angeles Times’ air quality and environmental health reporter. I’m filling in for Sammy Roth in…
Next Thanksgiving, Smokey Bear should talk climate change
Call me basic, but I love waking up on Thanksgiving morning and watching the Macy’s parade. Without fail, I’m enthralled by the pageantry and comforted…
The Salton Sea has even more lithium than previously thought
Want to produce a huge amount of lithium for electric vehicle batteries — and also batteries that keep our homes powered after sundown — without…
Climate change is scary. Here’s what gives people hope
Two years ago for Thanksgiving, I asked my L.A. Times colleagues who write about the environment: What gives them hope? Last year, I posed the…
Solving climate change will have side effects. Get over it
When I wrote a column two weeks ago urging the Biden administration to approve a lot more solar and wind farms on Western public lands,…
California strikes another blow against rooftop solar
Just a few weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom returned from a trip to China that he claimed was focused on tackling the climate crisis, his…