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State regulators are taking aim at polluting household appliances as they work to comply with federal clean air standards. -
A new paper out of UC San Diego finds that political friction between the U.S. and China could hurt joint work on critical green technologies. -
The surge in temperature has left several San Diego County school districts scrambling to install portable AC units. -
California’s water use dropped more than 10.4% in July compared with two years ago as the most populous state struggles with a years-long drought. -
With electricity demand reaching record levels due to a drawn-out heat wave, Southern California and the whole state avoided rolling power blackouts as the manager of the power grid called for maximum conservation efforts by residents. -
City officials said the people were blocking a sidewalk that had to be cleaned to prevent disease. -
Why hasn’t California’s power grid been able to keep up with energy demand during the heatwave without flex alerts? -
According to Cal-ISO, electrical demand on Thursday topped out at 47,357 megawatts, the highest figure since September 2017. The agency projected that demand could exceed that number on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, with Tuesday's forecast at 49,000 megawatts. -
Most of the proposals are being celebrated by Democrats and environmentalists who say the state needs to act more swiftly to tackle climate change. But Republicans and the oil industry say they will kill jobs and require the state to buy more oil from elsewhere. -
The call for conservation between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. came as excessive-heat warnings expanded to all of Southern California and up into the Central Valley, and were predicted to spread into Northern California later in the week.
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