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Climate Point: Government declares hot is the 'new normal' Mark Olalde, USA TODAY © David Wallace/The Republic The sun sets over Phoenix on the winter solstice, on a hazy evening, Dec. 21, 2020. Welcome to Climate Point, your weekly guide to climate, energy and environment news from around the Golden State and the country. In Palm Springs, Calif., I’m Mark Olalde. A "new normal." It's the phrase of the week, as it's where we find ourselves with temperatures, sea levels and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations all rising. Every decade, the National Oceanic and Atmosp...

ProPublica Hires Three New Journalists to Join Regional Reporting Units ProPublica 3 hrs ago ProPublica announced on Wednesday that it has hired three additional reporters to complete its new regional reporting units in the South and Southwest. Sarah Smith will join the South team and Mark Olalde and Anjeanette Damon will join the Southwest team. The new reporters will join the newly formed reporting units led by Mara Shalhoup, South editor, and Michael Squires, Southwest editor. New hires in the Midwest unit, led by editor Louise Kiernan, were announced earlier this year with a new reporte...

Climate Point: New dinosaurs discovered on Earth. Is life on Mars next? Mark Olalde, USA TODAY Welcome to Climate Point, your weekly guide to climate, energy and environment news from around the country (and sometimes the solar system). In Palm Springs, Calif., I’m Mark Olalde. President Joe Biden kicked off the two-day "Leaders Summit on Climate" Thursday morning, bringing together 40 world leaders to make dramatically timed commitments to lower their countries' greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise discuss the global emergency that is a rapidly changing climate. More on t...

Climate Point: Oil infrastructure springs dangerous leaks from Texas to California USA TODAY Welcome to Climate Point, your weekly guide to climate, energy and environment news from around the Golden State and the country. In Palm Springs, Calif., I’m Mark Olalde. There's been a disaster brewing in Tampa Bay. After a leak was detected at an old phosphate plant's wastewater pond, 316 homes were evacuated because officials feared the toxic mess could burst through a containment wall. The Tampa Bay Times reports that, to keep the wastewater from breaking containment and risking lives, pumps w...

Print This is the April 1, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. When the California Public Utilities Commission recommended 17 months ago that a gas-fired power plant on the Redondo Beach waterfront remain open beyond 2020 — over the objections of local officials and clean energy activists — Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves made a commitment to the city’s mayor. “I pledge to you, Mayor Brand, that I will never support a further extension,” she said. Now...