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Published: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Los Angeles at night. Photo credit: Ken Ross/VWPics/Newscom Grid experts say California's history of extreme weather blackouts holds lessons for other states. Los Angeles is pictured at night in this 2014 photo. Ken Ross/VWPics/Newscom California energy bosses don't want the distinction, but they're among the country's top experts in electricity blackouts. Rolling power outages hit the Golden State last summer when electricity supplies ran short of demand in a record-shattering heat wave. Residents in recent years have also lost electric service, sometim...

Published 1 February 2021 Wildfire smoke will be one of the most widely felt health impacts of climate change throughout the country, but U.S. clean air regulations are not equipped to deal with it. Experts discuss the causes and impacts of wildfire activity and its rapid acceleration in the American west. Record-setting wildfires torched huge swaths of western states in 2020. They blotted out the sun, produced hazardous air pollution in cities far from the blazes and sent toxic smoke wafting clear across the country and beyond. Such far-reaching effects are no longer aberrations, Stanford s...

By Josie Garthwaite Record-setting wildfires torched huge swaths of western states in 2020. They blotted out the sun, produced hazardous air pollution in cities far from the blazes and sent toxic smoke wafting clear across the country and beyond. Such far-reaching effects are no longer aberrations, Stanford scholars write in research published Jan. 12 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Wildfire smoke shrouded the San Francisco Bay Area and blocked sunlight on Sept. 9, 2020. (Image credit: Aaron Maizlish / Flickr Creative Commons) The number of homes at direct risk from wildf...

The Biden administration can't stop wildfires. But it can make them less destructive. Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post Dec. 22, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Fields are watered on a morning where the atmosphere is mixed with fog and wildfire smoke from a near by wildfire in Salinas, Calif., on Aug. 28.Washington Post photo by Melina Mara Rarely in recent memory has the United States seen a wildfire season as awful as in 2020. Scorching temperatures turned vast swaths of forest into tinder. Ferocious winds whipped small sparks into infernos, spinning up towering smoke clouds and terrifying fire ...

The view from coal communities: Local perspectives on the energy transition Mon, Dec 14, 2020 1:00 PM The Atlantic Council Global Energy Center hosts a conversation featuring local perspectives on the energy transition in coal communities. The Atlantic Council Global Energy Center is hosting a virtual event on Monday, December 14, 2020, from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST to discuss local perspectives on coal community economic development during the energy transition. The event will open with presentations by Jason Walsh, Executive Director, BlueGreen Alliance and Adele Morris, Policy Director, ...