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Oil bankruptcies leave environmental cleanup bills to California taxpayers Randeep Singh Grewal built a fossil fuel empire around his Greka group of companies. Now, taxpayers are paying millions to clean up Rincon Island. Mark Olalde, Palm Springs Desert Sun Published 7:07 pm UTC Jun. 25, 2021 Oil shaped modern Southern California. With dreams of black gold and not content to merely drill on land, a company called Atlantic Richfield built a 2.3-acre artificial island in the late 1950s just off the coast of Ventura County. Today, surfers skim past Rincon Island’s crown of�...

California's Natural Resources Agency has until the end of 2022 to decide what its long-term plan will be for the state's largest lake

The Desert Sun reporters, editors and photojournalists have won 35 prizes — including eight first-place recognitions — in the annual California Journalism Awards organized by the California News Publishers Association. Two first-place laurels went to environment reporter Mark Olalde, who was recognized both for his coverage of the Salton Sea (in the land-use reporting category) and best writing, for his profile of a Niland bird sanctuary owner who vowed to rebuild after a wildfire. Said the judges: “Very descriptive language that puts the reader at the scene. Lengthy story that doesn't ...

Print This is the May 6, 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. Conservationists in California and across the West are deeply skeptical of hydropower, and it’s not hard to see why. There’s a long history of government agencies damming spectacular canyons, choking off rivers, obliterating fish populations and cutting off access to Indigenous peoples. It’s a history detailed in books such as “Cadillac Desert,” and experienced by anyone who has spent time fis...