In the wake of a spate of fires at battery storage facilities across the state, the California Public Utilities Commission ...

Brian Hackney reports on the environmental impacts of the fire that happened at a Northern California lithium battery plant.

Deep in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive budget documents are proposed changes to public health law that seem to be aimed at ...

President Trump on Monday fired all three Democrats on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), bringing much ...

"Fortunately no one was hurt," said Board Chair Felipe Hernandez. "But this event has left a lot of questions in the minds of ...

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The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors received a report by Vistra Energy outlining the response and recovery efforts on ...

Vistra responds to San Jose State's finding of a heavy metal spike in soils near their Moss Landing battery storage facility.

State regulators want more control over how battery storage facilities operate as SJSU researchers have found a large amount ...

Elevated concentrations of heavy metals have been detected at the Elkhorn Slough Reserve by scientists from San Jose State University’s Moss Landing ...

Battery safety has come a long way since the construction of the 300 MW first phase of Vistra Energy’s Moss Landing Energy ...

The uproar over the Moss Landing Vistra battery plant meltdown that started Jan. 16 has only intensified, as many County and North Monterey County residents seem to have been caught ...