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The Trump administration says it isn't connected to Project 2025. But the administration has already accomplished about 70% of Project 2025's environment-related recommendations.

Jordan Thomas spent a year fighting blazes with a California Hotshot crew and weaves those experiences into his book about fire suppression efforts -- and cultural attitudes toward them.

A new study shows that only a quarter of fire cleanup workers in Altadena wore gloves, a fifth wore a protective mask, and a mere tenth donned full Tyvek suits, as required by California's fire cleanup regulations.

Residents in the Eaton burn area and downwind can now send in soil samples from their yard to test for lead, a potent neurotoxin that's especially dangerous for kids.

Heal the Bay has released its annual report card on California beaches. The dirtiest include one in L.A. County and four in San Diego County.

The Republican-majority Senate's decision to revoke California's planned ban on vehicles that run on fossil fuels defies congressional norms, and threatens the state's climate adaptation goals.

Newsom scuttled the finalization of a landmark waste law, leading CalRecycle to propose new rules. Critics say the rules pander to industry by making broad exemptions.

Southern California Edison, the investor-owned public utility that may be responsible for sparking the deadly Eaton fire, is seeking a rate increase of 10% to cover operating costs.

By Wednesday afternoon Southern California residents had made it through the worst of this week's heat wave with slightly lower temperatures on tap for Thursday and Friday.

Edison International leaders misled its investors about the effectiveness of its efforts to reduce the risk of wildfire in the months and years before the devastating Eaton fire, according to a shareholder lawsuit.