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PACIFIC PALISADES, CALIF JANUARY 7, 2024 - The Palisades fire in Pacific Palisades quickly consumed more than 1,200 acres on Tuesday, Jan. 7, pushed by gusting Santa Ana winds. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

The Palisades fire discourse is stuck in January 2025

Officials argue they had little agency to stop the fire. Residents point to a string of missteps that enabled it. There’s little consensus on how to prevent the next one.

Johnson Valley, CA, United States - February 2: An aerial view of vehicles as they drive near King of the Hammers on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026 in Johnson Valley, CA. (Ethan Swope/For The Times)

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This California reptile closed down a Mojave Desert haven for off-road racing

This photograph shows a roll of steel at ArcelorMittals's new electric steel production facility during the visit of French President in Mardyck, northern France on February 10, 2026. (Photo by Benoit Tessier / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

EU will push for green steel as a pillar of industrial revival

An egret takes off in a wetland with newly-planted trees Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Meraux, La. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

What can toughen Louisiana coast against worsening storms? Four years and 30,000 trees

OMB Director Russ Vought arrives to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the rescissions package, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

California sues Trump administration over billions in canceled clean energy funding

Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica’s near-freezing deep
What if just 1 in 10 people changed how they eat, drive, heat or shop?
Public health, green groups sue EPA over repeal of rule supporting climate protections
Bayer agrees to $7.25-billion proposed settlement over thousands of Roundup cancer lawsuits

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County prosecutors probing whether Edison should be criminally charged for Eaton fire
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Altadena asked Edison to bury power lines. Some fire victims say that could cost them $40,000
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Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
$LOST HILLS, CA - MARCH 23: A high pressure gas line crosses over a canal in an oil field over the Monterey Shale formation where gas and oil extraction using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is on the verge of a boom on March 23, 2014 near Lost Hills, California. Critics of fracking in California cite concerns over water usage and possible chemical pollution of ground water sources as California farmers are forced to leave unprecedented expanses of fields fallow in one of the worst droughts in California history. Concerns also include the possibility of earthquakes triggered by the fracking process which injects water, sand and various chemicals under high pressure into the ground to break the rock to release oil and gas for extraction though a well. The 800-mile-long San Andreas Fault runs north and south on the western side of the Monterey Formation in the Central Valley and is thought to be the most dangerous fault in the nation. Proponents of the fracking boom saying that the expansion of petroleum extraction is good for the economy and security by developing more domestic energy sources and increasing gas and oil exports. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)$

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Contributor: Blending hydrogen into gas pipelines would enrich utilities and harm Californians
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Nearly half of L.A. County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds
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A wolf came to L.A. looking for love. On Valentine’s Day, she’s moved on
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Lopez: In 50-year fight to protect California’s coast, they’re the real McCoys, still at it in their 80s
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Notoriously hazardous South L.A. oil wells finally plugged after decades of community pressure

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2026 Super Bowl ads reflect the country’s abandonment of a promising green-energy transition
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