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DARK SECRETS: 11 | Vintage Vibes

California Utility Wants Customers to Pay for Carbon Capture and Hydrogen

Sempra is pitching lawmakers on industry-friendly climate solutions paid by ratepayers.

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Why Does Starbucks Stall Union Negotiations? Because It Can.

Weak labor laws allow the coffee giant to avoid contract talks.

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Pennsylvania Residents Call for Action After Study Links Fracking to Asthma and Lymphoma

Residents and scientists had called for research on health risks for years, while industry campaign denied links.

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Pennsylvania Battle Over Climate-Warming Crypto Mines Intensifies

Legislation aims to rein in an unregulated industry with ballooning environmental effects.

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California banks can't quit fossil fuels

The Treasurer’s Office paid $73.2 million to banks that sell state climate bonds while still funding fossil fuels

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L.A. Housing Department Demands Residential Hotels Stop Renting Rooms to Tourists

After a Capital & Main and ProPublica investigation found that landlords were turning low-cost housing into tourist hotels, the city ordered some building owners to comply with the law.

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To Adapt to Climate Change, California Pays the Banks That Are Part of the Problem

The Treasurer’s Office paid $73.2 million to banks that sell state climate bonds while still funding fossil fuels.

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How We Found What the City of L.A. Didn’t: Landlords Renting Low-Cost Housing to Tourists

Hotel ads, booking sites and guest reviews. Tourists staying in rooms meant for low-cost housing. Yet the city’s Housing Department has cited few landlords for violating the residential hotel law.

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How the Solidarity of Black Workers Advanced Labor Rights for All

A scholar uncovers her family’s story, and America’s.

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L.A. Promised to Preserve Low-Cost Housing. These Tenants’ Homes Were Turned Into Hotel Rooms Anyway.

When the American Hotel converted into a tourist hotel, its long-term residents lost not just their affordable housing but the creative community that long thrived in the iconic building.

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Los Angeles Housing Department Will Investigate Residential Hotels

Following a Capital & Main and ProPublica investigation, which found that buildings meant for housing are instead being rented to tourists, the mayor’s office asked for a review.

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California’s Decoy Carbon Capture Bill Shut Down Following Capital & Main Report

State senator cites story, which revealed oil lobbyist’s misleading tactics.

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Who is Blocking Climate Action in Pennsylvania?

Two blocked climate bills show the oil and gas industry, related unions can still sway the new Democratic House majority.

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Pennsylvania Could Be a Model for Solar-Powered Schools — If It Can Get Past Political Divisions.

A new bill would marry labor, environmental and educational interests — potentially forging a new path for bipartisan climate policy.

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California Lobbyist Explains How to Skirt Climate Scrutiny in State Legislature

Industry is 'misadvertising' a carbon capture bill in order to obscure its risky intent, according to an oil and gas advocate.

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Drowned in the Stream

Hard-hitting filmmaker Amy Ziering on why journalistic documentaries are facing extinction.

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Desegregation Starts Here

Richard and Leah Rothstein’s new book is an organizer’s guide to integrating communities.

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Pennsylvania Legislators Claw Back the State’s Power to Plug Abandoned Wells

After a deal last year kneecapped regulators’ ability to address the crisis of abandoned oil and gas wells, Dems aim to reset environmental law.

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Colorado’s Big Push on Electric Vehicles Gets Boost From Federal Funds, But It’s Got a Long Way to Go

Though the state is set to spend plenty in effort to meet the goals of its emissions reduction plan, more permanent solutions seem far off.

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California Bill Would Hit Oil Companies With $1 Million Penalty for Health Impacts

The first of its kind legislation holds companies liable for illness from urban drilling.

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Pennsylvania’s Largest Coal Plant Is Retiring. What Would It Take to Transition the Site to Renewables?

Homer City Generating Station has been used to delay environmental regulations. Could the infamous site become a symbol for the just transition?

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David Bronner’s Psychedelic Justice Trip

His soap company donates millions to psychedelics research and reforms, which the CEO says can lead to a healthier, more just society.

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California’s Methane Climate Solution Rewards Dairy Gas. Other States Take a Harder Line.

Incentives for cow manure methane prop up gas infrastructure — can California do better?

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‘We Can’t Be Living in an Economy of 40 Million People This Close to the Edge.’

Lake Mead, a key water source for California and six other states, is close to drying up. Water policy expert Felicia Marcus says dramatic action is needed on conservation, recycling and efficiency.

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How a California Dairy Methane Project Threatens Residents’ Air and Water

Low-income communities of color bear the pollution burden of California’s incentive-based dairy gas climate plan.

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