With battery-powered cars, windmills, and solar farms California hopes to shrink its carbon footprint to nothing. But some see a downside.

Safety standards and regulations have not kept up with emerging technology for battery storage.

At Wednesday afternoon’s County of Monterey briefing, Ricardo Encarnacion, bureau chief and County of Monterey director of ...

Researchers find heavy metals in sensitive habitat near Moss Landing battery fire site, a group of locals collect 125 samples ...

A group of researchers says they have found high concentrations of heavy metals in a California estuary near the site of a ...

Monterey County Board of Supervisors unanimously declared a state of emergency last Tuesday after the Jan. 16 fire at the ...

After a fire at a Monterey County battery storage facility, scientists say high levels of heavy metals were found at a nearby ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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