As the flames of the Palisades fire licked at his home, Ricardo Kawamura stood in his front yard watching smoke pour out of a second-story window. He saw a fire …
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Holiday S.F. power outage disrupts trains, leaves Waymos stalled on darkened streets
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesA major power outage hit San Francisco, leaving 130,000 PG&E customers or roughly 30% of the city blanketed in darkness on a rainy Saturday amid the busy holiday season. The …
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Social media users in the Central Valley are freaking out about unusual fog
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesA 400-mile blanket of fog has socked in California’s Central Valley for weeks. Scientists and meteorologists say the conditions for such persistent cloud cover are ripe: an early wet season, …
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Recipe for L.A. fire disaster: Intense rains. Unprecedented heat. Extraordinary winds.
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesOne fire appears to have been caused by a spark from old power lines, the other allegedly started by an Uber driver with a fascination with flames. In the end, …
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Why Trump’s Truth Social is pairing up with this nuclear startup?
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesPresident Trump’s media company is merging with a nuclear fusion energy firm in a $6-billion deal aimed at generating more power amid growing demand from power-hungry artificial intelligence data centers. …
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California braces for drought from the fifth La Niña in six years
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesDeadly flooding in Asia and early snowstorms across the US are signaling the return of a weather-roiling La Niña, a cooling of Pacific waters that can disrupt economies and trigger …
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Edison neglected maintenance of its aging transmission lines before the Jan. 7 fires. Now it’s trying to catch up
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesSouthern California Edison did not spend hundreds of millions of dollars on maintenance of its aging transmission lines that it told regulators was necessary and began billing to customers in …
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The Chevron fire in El Segundo is an indictment of air quality regulation
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesMore than two months after an explosion erupted at the Chevron oil refinery in El Segundo, neither the company nor the regulators responsible for monitoring the facility have released details …
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Along the Texas Coast, a new sanctuary aims to protect the endangered and rare whooping crane
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesWOLFBERRY WHOOPING CRANE SANCTUARY, Texas — Carter Crouch has been fascinated by the whooping crane’s conservation story for as long as he can remember. The white bird, named for its “whooping” call, …
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Why is Trump Media betting on fusion to power the AI revolution?
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesTrump Media & Technology will merge with a fusion power company in an all-stock deal that the companies said Thursday is valued at more than $6 billion. Devin Nunes, the …