Different sets of construction regulations allow California’s charters to build without environmental oversight.
An interview with Shenita Anderson, an ER nurse at L.A.’s for-profit Olympia Medical Center, which is closing despite the COVID-19 crisis.
Critics of the state’s move to an age-based priority system say it defies statistical evidence that workplace transmission is a major source of the virus’s spread.
New numbers show that just 29% of the people receiving vaccines are Latinos, who account for 52% of L.A. County’s COVID deaths.
More than 1,300 county residents who lacked housing died last year.
But not everyone in the state is rankled by Joe Biden’s executive order.
The California governor has so far approved more than 8,000 fossil fuel permits on private and state lands.
How much retail shopping contributed to January’s surge is hard to know. Critics charge the county’s policy has been fatally flawed.
Oilfield dangers aren’t confined to the drilling pad — many Permian Basin homes have pipes carrying gas, oil and contaminated water running right through their yards.
A notorious pollution site may be paved over and repurposed for new industrial activity.