L.A. Times - Environment

Experts say a closure of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., would leave millions vulnerable to worsening climate hazards.

A new study is the latest of several recent research papers documenting the physical toll of January's fires.

Nearly a year after the devastating fires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, residents and experts say the water problems that hindered firefighting leave several lessons.

One fire appears to have been caused by a spark from old power lines, the other allegedly started by an Uber driver with a fascination with flames. In the end, the Eaton and Palisades fires destroyed more than 16,000 homes, businesses and other structures and left 31 people dead.

Rashi Kaslow lost his mobile home in the Palisades fire. Now he's living in a houseboat, trying to figure out how to keep afloat, emotionally and financially.

Robert Lempert, a RAND researcher who lost his home in the Palisades fire, hopes to use computer simulations, and his neighbors' ideas, to design a fire-resilient community.

Southern California Edison began charging customers for hundreds of millions of dollars of maintenance on its aging transmission lines that regulators approved but it did not actually do in the four years before the Eaton fire, according to state documents.

A coalition of Eaton fire survivors and community groups called on Southern California Edison on Tuesday to provide immediate housing assistance to the thousands of people who lost their homes in the Jan. 7 wildfire.

California alleges that the Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration are refusing to fund grants to build and maintain electric vehicle chargers, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The Trump administration announced a plan to pump more water in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Democratic lawmakers condemn it as a 'political stunt.'

The federal government is providing water to some large agricultural districts for free. In a new study, researchers urge the Trump administration to start charging more for water.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power inspect nearly 100 drinking water reservoirs and storage tanks due to concerns over improper maintenance.

A landmark deal with Pacific Gas & Electric will extend the life of the state's remaining nuclear power plant in exchange for thousands of acres of new conservation in San Luis Obispo County.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court charges four oil companies with failing to properly clean up at least 227 idle or exhausted wells in the oil field near Baldwin Hills.

The California wildlife department is recommending listing mountain lions in Southern California and the Central Coast as threatened.