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Print This is the Jan. 14, 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. As rooftop solar power has gotten cheaper and more useful — a topic I wrote about last week — a powerful industry has pushed back. I’m talking about utilities, the state-sanctioned monopolies that build poles and wires and sell us electricity from centralized power plants, earning large guaranteed profits in the process. Jonathan Scott is no fan of that industry. If you haven’t spent much tim...

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. President Trump finally conceded after a mob of his supporters overran the U.S. Capitol. Georgia continued its blue shift, electing two Democratic senators and handing control over Congress' upper branch to the Democratic Party by a razor-thin margin. The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge was opened for oil drilling in a lease sale that saw a pitiful turnout. COVID-19 continued surging to unfathomable heights. A...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. This morning we’ll be sharing our compendium of some of the best California writing of 2020. California contains multitudes. This is a state of 40 million people — a place so big that there have been at least 220 recorded attempts to break it up. Which is all to say that even a hundred stories couldn’t capture the entirety of the California experience during this historic year. Advertisement But these were 30 of our favorite stories published in 2020, from The Times and beyond. T...

Advertisement The demolition capped off another tumultuous year for coal power. The industry helped build the modern West, but it’s collapsing as utility companies turn to natural gas, solar panels and wind turbines for lower-cost electricity, and as voters demand cleaner energy to reduce air pollution and confront the climate crisis. New Mexico’s Escalante Generating Station produced its final coal-fired electrons in August, and Portland General Electric shut down Oregon’s last coal plant in October. Those facilities will be joined in retirement in the next few days by one of two units...

NEWSOM: Stay-at-home order could be extended — API push for BONTA for AG — Battle over NURSES — New COVID strain: Cause for concern? — O’LEARY resigns, DEBOO is IN 12/22/2020 09:00 AM EST THE BUZZ — NEWSOM’S NOT GETTING A BREAK — 2020 is not letting up, right down to the final weeks. Whether it’s an extended lockdown (brace yourselves for that) or a new Covid-19 strain, Gov. Gavin Newsom has had to deliver some tough news again this week — tempered by the vaccine deliveries, which have begun around California. THE BIG (BAD) NEWS — Newsom said the state will likely exte...