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Nevada is set to become a hub for lithium battery production, raising concerns about environmental risks and community impact ...
Terra-Gen spent 90 minutes Wednesday going over points company officials felt comfortable addressing in an effort to reassure residents they would be safe living near a ...
Moss Landing Power Plant fire in January of 2025. Image courtesy of KION "I think that this is, uh, can best be described as a worst-case scenario of a disaster that's happened here.
The Moss Landing fire sparked and spread in the oldest of Vistra’s three facilities on site, which started operating in December 2020. That facility holds 300 megawatts of lithium ion batteries ...
In an effort to tackle one of Santa Cruz County’s most controversial issues, the Commission on the Environment hosted the ...
Joe Curtatone seeks to establish his community credibility, claiming that he understands local needs since he was mayor of ...
A press conference was held this afternoon to address a "mass" action lawsuit against Vistra and PG&E, brought by Moss Landing residents in the wake of battery fires at the Vistra plant in January ...
Darden storage site in Fresno County is the first California project to be permitted under the state’s new Opt-In Certification program to speed environmental review of critical energy infrastructure ...
Smoke and flames are seen from Castroville as a fire at the Vistra battery storage plant burns in Moss Landing, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) ...
People in the nation’s richest strawberry-growing region have lacked safe drinking water for decades. A Biden administration ...
The battery storage system is adjacent to the PG&E Nipomo substation and began operating less than three months after a battery plant facility in Moss Landing in Monterey County caught fire.
As Santa Cruz County officials consider a battery storage facility near Watsonville, experts sought to reassure residents ...