HUGE FLAMES BLAZED through the roof of the industrial building. Billowing smoke rose slowly to a plume and moved inland.

The recent California fire that spewed toxic heavy metals all around a battery storage facility that went up in flames have ...

Nickel, cobalt and manganese, found in lithium-ion batteries, increased dramatically at Elkhorn Slough after the fire ...

The Tulare County Board of Supervisors will take up a proposal by Vistra Energy to build a new 50-megawatt battery energy storage system adjacent to a 70-megawatt solar farm near the town of Terra ...

Santa Cruz County supervisors met to discuss potential toxin spread from the Moss Landing battery plant fire, with residents ...

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

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

The CPUC will vote on a proposal adopting new safety standards for the maintenance and operation of battery energy storage ...

Scientists have linked a lithium battery plant fire in California earlier this month to a surge in heavy metals found in ...

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

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. Less than two weeks after the fire, scientists ...