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Julie Cart, CalMatters

Julie Cart | photo courtesy CALmatters

Julie Cart is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has worked as an environmental reporter, sportswriter and national correspondent during her three decades with the Los Angeles Times.

Julie Cart | photo courtesy CALmatters
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Automakers face global challenges obtaining battery materials, including China's stranglehold on the industry and mining in Africa. Will they have everything they need to ramp up electric car production — including minerals like cobalt and lithium — and at what cost to the economy and the environment?
A man wearing athletic clothes charges his Nissan car through a port in the hood.
On the ballot this November is Prop 30, which seeks to tax millionaires in order to create a Clean Air Fund that would help make electric vehicles more accessible. But the fact that a private rideshare company, Lyft, authored and subsidized the proposition has raised questions about where the money would actually go.
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In a repeat of last year’s criticism, legislators were told there’s “a very real risk” the cap-and-trade program won’t meet California’s greenhouse gas goals. The state air board is revising the program.
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As drought grips most of California, water thefts have increased to record levels. Thieves tap into hydrants, pump water from rivers and break into remote water stations and tanks.
California coastline at Pacifica in the S.F. Bay Area | Photo: Brocken Inaglory/Wikimedia Commons
By century’s end, rapidly rising seas could engulf California infrastructure, cripple economies and force a retreat from the Coast.
Along the coast of San Luis Obispo County, the Piedras Blancas is a historic lighthouse surrounded by land of cultural significance to the Chumash and Salinan tribes. | photo Mike Baird
Action prevents the government from disposing of small coastal land parcels.
California's cap-and-trade offset system rewards the Yurok Tribe for placing 8,000-plus acres of Douglas fir and hardwood into the state’s carbon bank. | photo California Air Resources Board
California's program to control greenhouse gas emissions is in limbo
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