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Pipeline firm gets $3.3-million fine for worst California oil spill in 25 years
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Pipeline firm gets $3.3-million fine for worst California oil spill in 25 years

The judge issued a fine and penalties against Plains All American Pipeline for a 2015 spill that sent 140,000 gallons of crude oil gushing onto Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County. The spill from a corroded pipeline blackened popular beaches for miles, killed wildlife and hurt tourism.
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L.A. takes climate change fight to the streets by pouring cooler pavement
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L.A. takes climate change fight to the streets by pouring cooler pavement

L.A. is taking the climate change fight to the streets with plans to cover 1,500 city blocks with cool pavement, a heat-reflecting asphalt coating.
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Trump fuel economy rollback is based on misleading and shoddy calculations, study finds
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Trump fuel economy rollback is based on misleading and shoddy calculations, study finds

The Trump administration's plan to roll back vehicle fuel economy standards is based on a flawed and misleading analysis, a team of economists and other independent experts found.
Without warning: Redding fire moved faster than evacuation orders, leaving a deadly toll
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Without warning: Redding fire moved faster than evacuation orders, leaving a deadly toll

California faces a huge challenge as fires get bigger, faster and increasingly destructive.
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SoCal Gas agrees to $119.5-million settlement for Aliso Canyon methane leak - biggest in US history

SoCal Gas agrees to $119.5-million settlement for Aliso Canyon methane leak - biggest in US history

California and local officials on Wednesday announced a tentative $119.5-million settlement in lawsuits filed against Southern California Gas Co. over the biggest methane leak in U.S. history.
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California moves to safeguard vehicle emissions rules from Trump rollback
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California moves to safeguard vehicle emissions rules from Trump rollback

California is firing back at the Trump administration with a plan to safeguard the state’s greenhouse gas emissions rules from a proposed federal rollback.
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California moves to safeguard vehicle emissions rules from Trump rollback
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California moves to safeguard vehicle emissions rules from Trump rollback

California is firing back at the Trump administration with a plan to safeguard the state’s greenhouse gas emissions rules from a proposed federal rollback.
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Rising salt levels threaten freshwater supplies as climate warms

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UN climate summit organizers consider hiring PR firm tied to past Amazon lobbying

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Past decade sets new record for global temperatures

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Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Climate scientist Michael Mann speaks at a podium with a porjection of the famous hockey Stick climate graph.

A climate scientist’s legal win just got flipped on its head

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Trump administration seeks to reframe climate change as beneficial

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An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

Dakta Access Pipeline protests

Greenpeace faces massive financial blow in pipeline lawsuit