L.A. Times - Environment

ExxonMobil has filed suit in federal court challenging two California laws that would require the oil giant to report the greenhouse emissions resulting from the use of its products globally.

Restoring California's St. George Reef Lighthouse will cost at least $10 million and helicopter access. It's a race against time -- and rising seas.

October is a peak mating month for tarantulas in California, when the hulking, furry males set out in search of a mate. They don't always come out alive.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported the first death from West Nile virus in 2025, in a patient from the San Fernando Valley.

An otter is hopping on surfboards in Santa Cruz's storied Steamers Lane. Two years ago, a similar situation played out in these prime surfing waters. Is it the same otter? A different one? And what benefit, if any, is this otter gaining by accosting surfers and boaters?

A Los Angeles County judge ordered the owners of a troubled metal recycler to pay $2 million in penalties and permanently cease operations next door to a high school in Watts.

Rog Hanson emerges from the coastal waters, pulls a diving regulator out of his mouth and pushes a scuba mask down around his neck.

Rivian, the Irvine-based manufacturer of electric trucks and SUVs, is preparing to lay off roughly 600 employees in an effort to lower costs.

Hunters will now be allowed to kill mute swans starting Jan. 1, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Melanie Winter led efforts to embrace nature along the L.A. River, touting the potential for a restored river to heal the city's relationship to water. She was 67.

Ten years after the Aliso Canyon disaster, the worst natural gas blowout in U.S. history, some progress has been made but many promises have been broken.

As federal tax credits for electric vehicle purchases expired, Californians bought emissions-free cars in record numbers in the third quarter of 2025.

The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is getting plants this month, about 5,000 native plants grown from seed gathered from the surrounding hills in 2022.

The California Chamber of Commerce is hoping to ask voters as early as next year to approve a major revision to the California Environmental Quality Act. The change would create new deadlines for environmental reviews in an effort to expedite housing and infrastructure projects.

Peanut allergy rates in young children plummeted since guidelines were introduced that advised parents to feed the common allergen to babies — reversing decades of medical practice.