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A ChargePoint EV charger is out of focus in the foreground, with a map of the Imperial Valley in California in focus in the background showing yellow pinpoints where future chargers will be found.
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SoCal Matters

Local Activists Bringing EV Chargers to Imperial Valley, A Charging 'Desert' for Electric Cars

This California County is the State's Worst EV Charging Desert
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SoCal Matters

This California County is the State's Worst EV Charging Desert

An oil pump painted white with red accents stands mid-pump on a dirt road under a blue, cloudy sky with a green, grassy slope in the background.
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Stop Saving the Planet?

California’s First Carbon Capture Project: Vital Climate Tool or License to Pollute?

EVs

A mixed group of workers standing closely together in a crowd with arms raised, holding protest posters that read "UAW STAND UP COLA AND FAIR PAY NOW" and "RECORD PROFITS RECORD CONTRACTS"
How the Shift to Electric Vehicles Is Fueling the United Auto Workers Union Strike
Blue electric trucks are parked in a lot, with a close up of the side of one truck that reads "ZERO EMISSIONS" and "THIS TRUCK IS POWERED BY 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY"
California and Manufacturers Strike Deal Over Zero-Emission Trucks
A white electric vehicle is plugged in at an Electric Vehicle Charging Station outside next to a building under a blue sky
California Bill Could Make EVs Supply Electricity for Homes
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California Officially Phases Out Diesel Trucks On Path to Zero Emissions
A Congolese man wearing a white T-shirt stands in a green field in the foreground with his back to the camera, looking at a huge mound of a mining site beyond power lines and a smokestack in the background
Jump-Starting Electric Car Batteries: Will Supply Problems Stall California's Mandate?
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California Is Racing to Electrify Trucks. Can the Industry Keep Up?
A flat landscape is dominated with rectangular sections in a grid pattern, some colored in shades of green, blue and turquoise
A Zero-Emissions Future ... Without the Mining Boom?
A nighttime scene of a man standing as he charges his electric car at a car charging station that glows with a green lit outline
Switching to an Electric Car Saves Money — But Not for Those Who Need It Most
A silhouette of a woman holding a cell phone displaying the pink and white Lyft logo in front of an LED display
Why California’s Environmentally-Conscious, Tax-the-Rich Voters Killed Prop 30
Rows of white and red electric cars are lined in in a dirt lot overgrown with greenery
What Will It Take To Recycle Millions of Worn-Out EV Batteries?

Oil and Gas Drilling

A black and white historical photo shoes white commercial/industrial buildings in the foreground with houses in the background consumed by plumes of black smoke erupting out of oil wells, with a number of derricks appearing in black against a smoky sky.
History of Racism Leaves Black Californians Most at Risk from Oil and Gas Drilling, New Research Shows
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In a Largely Black and Latino Community, Neighbors Worry About the Oil Wells in Their Midst
A colorful playground structure appears on the left with oil pumpjacks on the right and barren hills in the distance
Referendum Challenging Setbacks For New Oil Wells in California Qualifies for 2024 Ballot
An oil pumpjack is seen working in a dirt field with a row of houses on a hill directly behind it
L.A.'s Long, Troubled History With Urban Oil Drilling Is Nearing an End — After Years of Health Concerns
A black and white collaged image of a newspaper ad overlaid semi-transparently over an image of oil wells. The newspaper ad reads, "'Everybody's Doing It' 'Doing What.'" In the center stands a C. C. Julian — a man in a tailored suit and fedora hat with his thumbs hanging off of his pockets.
Lost LA
The Julian Pete Scandal: The Multi-Million Dollar Oil Swindle that Rocked 1920s Los Angeles
A vintage colored photo of three vintage vehicles parked at the top of a dirt hill while people stand outside of the cars, looking at a large fire at an oil refinery below. Large, thick black plumes of smoke emerge from the orange blaze An oil well can be seen to the left.
Lost LA
‘It Rained Oil’: Remembering the Explosive 1958 Hancock Refinery Fire in Signal Hill
A sole pumpjack stands in the middle of a grassy field with a smoggy sky, mountains and power lines in the background
Big Oil Companies Are Selling Their Wells. Some Worry Taxpayers Will Pay to Clean Them Up.
A silhouette of oil pumpjacks in motion appears against a sunset-colored sky.
L.A. County Board Approves Ordinance to Phase Out Oil Wells
A wide black and white photo of city streets, the main focus of the photo being a multi-story office building with signage across the roof that reads, "Mobiloil" and "Mobilgas."
Lost LA
The Downtown Los Angeles Buildings That Oil Built
Standard Oil provoked a considerable uproar among real estate interests when it built this wildcat oil well next to a new, luxury housing tract in 1927. Courtesy of the USC Libraries - Dick Whittington Photography Collection.
Lost LA
Monte Mar Vista: Luxury Homes With a View (of an Oil Derrick)

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