- — IRS apologizes for telling taxpayers their debt was due in weeks rather than months
- The IRS acknowledged it caused "confusion" when it mailed customers who owed income tax a notice that their debt was due within three weeks rather than in roughly four months.
- — In Boyle Heights, Sen. Alex Padilla urges Superfund status for Exide cleanup
- U.S. Senator Alex Padilla met with residents who live near the former Exide battery plant and called for federal Superfund status.
- — World Ocean Day brings students to marine protected area
- World Ocean Day brings students to Newport Beach for science studies in a marine protected area off the coast.
- — Bay Area refinery fallout does not pose significant health risk, authorities say
- Nearly six months after Martinez Refining Co. released hazardous materials, officials have announced reassuring soil test results.
- — Wildfires forced this animal sanctuary out of California. But smoke found them in their new home too
- Nate Salpeter and Anna Sweet left California to escape the threat of wildfires. But no place is totally immune from the effect of climate change.
- — Winter storms boost Central Valley water supplies, but aquifer levels remain depleted
- NASA satellites have measured a large gain in California water supplies, but groundwater in the Central Valley remains severely depleted after years of drought.
- — Editorial: Orange skies in New York? Welcome to our smoke-filled, climate-fueled future
- A smoky haze from fires in Canada has cast a pallor over the Northeast U.S. that's all too familiar to those on the West Coast. Get used to these images as the horror of a changed climate come to life.
- — Unhealthy air, smoke continue to cover large swaths of U.S. for third straight day
- Large swaths of the U.S. continue to be blanketed in a thick haze of smoke from hundreds of forest fires burning in Canada.
- — Wildfire smoke has given New York the world's worst air quality. Californians have some tips
- Tens of millions of Americans were under air quality alerts as smoke and pollution from wildfires in Canada settled over New York and other East Coast cities.
- — 'Hidden' no more: Coastal Commission OKs new public path to Malibu beach
- The move will restore a long-obscured access point to Escondido Beach from Pacific Coast Highway, the first new 'vertical' path to a beach in Malibu since 2015.
- — 'Improvised, spotty and belated': Will California reform its oversight of water rights?
- Bills advancing in the California Legislature would expand water regulators' authority to investigate the state's oldest water rights and penalize violators.
- — Outcry over recycling plant next to Watts high school appears to gain traction
- A mediator and attorneys for all parties are projecting a completed settlement by later this year in the legal battle over the Atlas Metals recycling facility, located next to Jordan High School.
- — California toxics agency to publish lead cleanup reports for homes surrounding Exide plant
- Publication of the information marks a new level of transparency from state officials, who have been harshly criticized for their oversight of cleanup work.
- — Water concerns prompt new limits on growth in Arizona
- Arizona will limit development in the Phoenix area after a study found the available groundwater isn't sufficient to meet long-term water demands.
- — Grazing goats prevent California wildfires. New salary rules may jeopardize the industry
- California wildfire prevention is at risk after new labor requirements separated goat herders from sheep. Goats are an economical and sustainable method of clearing underbrush.
- — Central Valley flooding offers birds bountiful water. Will it also poison them?
- Central Valley flooding has raised a new potential threat to migrating birds: Massive die-offs from bacteria-contaminated water.
- — Majority of Californians fear worsening weather swings due to climate change, poll finds
- Latest UC Berkeley poll of California voters asks about the impact of this year's very wet winter and the prospects for the Colorado River.
- — Opinion: Why the fossil fuel divestment movement should reach hospitals
- Climate change is already harming hospital patients, and fossil fuels are a bad bet financially too.
- — What causes the May gray that stubbornly blocks the sun for days in Southern California?
- Southern California's May gray has been stubborn. Here's an explanation. But be prepared for June gloom.
- — Judge orders halt to Ballona Wetlands restoration project
- A judge ordered the state to suspend any project activity and prepare a 'legally adequate' environmental impact report 'if it chooses to proceed.'
- — Opinion: How to dig your way out of climate grief
- California's ominous winter proved the planet is in terrible flux. To save what we can, head for the garden.
- — Supreme Court scales back clean water protections. What does it mean for California?
- As a Supreme Court ruling scales back federal water protections, a top California water regulator says the state will maintain stringent oversight of wetlands.
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