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Emily Guerin
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Former Correspondent, LAist Studios
Stories by Emily Guerin
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SoCal's largest single source of air pollution is the ports of LA and Long Beach. Critics say the ports have a long way to go to help the area meet federal air standards.
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Just because it rains doesn't mean the effects of drought are over. A new study finds trees are taking longer to recover, making them more vulnerable to another drought before they've fully bounced back.
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The threatened animals tend to pace back and forth along protective fences, exposing them to the sun and heating their bodies to sometimes lethal levels.
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A new study finds the roofs, which combat the urban heat island effect, can actually worsen smog and particulate matter.
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What is it like to watch the forest die around you? Residents of an alpine town in Kern County say living among drought-killed trees has been a challenge.
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The nation's second-largest transit agency wants to switch all 2,200 buses from natural gas to zero-emissions technology. That means kicking the internal combustion engine.
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Closing windows, recirculating air and replacing your air filter can help keep unhealthy particulate pollution our of your car — and lungs.
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Truck drivers worry they will bear the high costs of upgrading diesel trucks to expensive, zero-emission technology.
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The plan relies heavily on incentives to switch trucks and equipment over to zero emission technology, which critics say will not be ready, or cost effective, in time.
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Brown needs a two-thirds majority vote of the legislature to extend the state's signature climate policy through 2031. The legislature is supposed to vote today.
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Mayor Eric Garcetti has a goal of lowering the city's temperature three degrees by 2035 through a combination of reflective pavement, more trees, and less heat-absorbing rooftops.
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A bumper crop of grass, now withering under searing temperatures, coupled with millions of dead trees has increased the threat of fire in the Sierra Nevada.