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A new agreement calls for Western states to leave their drinking water in the reservoir — and act as if they didn't.
Kern County is betting on carbon capture to replace oil jobs and tax revenue. But will the county’s new economy repeat the sins of the old one?
It's up to the Army Corps to keep it flowing.
A grand jury and the EPA have cited potential disposal problems, and activists are fighting new injection wells. Yet the gas industry claims fracking is essential for the state’s economic health and that most of its wastewater is safely recycled.
On a daily basis, water managers in cities across the state move from crisis to crisis hoping to keep the water flowing to residents.
A new program from the Biden administration will spend $50 billion over the next 10 years to prevent the West’s next major conflagration.
The Biden administration is taking a big shot at the super-pollutants known as hydrofluorocarbons.
The technique has ‘huge potential’ for monitoring decline in biodiversity, say scientists.
“This is not another ‘before it’s too late’ book. This is a ‘what if it’s already too late?’ book.”
