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STORY ANGLES - Focuses on public health and environmental risks: Covers diseases, climate change impacts, and pollution with a strong emphasis on societal implications.
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- Sep 24, 2026
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This deadly fungus isn’t just a rural threat anymore. New studies point to cities and oil wells (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred John Taylor has spent years studying valley fever and the fungus that causes it across the Central Valley and the Southwest. The sometimes-fatal disease is increasing, and the UC Berkeley professor has grim advice for people doing outdoor manual labor in those arid regions: Wear a full face mask hooked up to a HEPA-filtered air supply. “Anything
Who's behind the secretive multimillion-dollar campaign to crush California's landmark plastics law? (opens the original)
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See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred California’s embattled single-use plastics law is still alive — despite multiple lawsuits, political pressure and widespread ad campaigns to destroy it. While leaders in the packaging industry wait to see how the courts respond to legal challenges lodged against the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, or Senate Bill 54, several have decided to tackle the law on the political front — lobbying le
California moves to outlaw disposable vapes, a toxic trash plague from beaches to battery fires (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Vape pens and other disposable e-cigarettes soon could be illegal in California. On Wednesday, the state Assembly approved Assembly Bill 762, which, if signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, will make the battery-powered disposable devices illegal to manufacture, distribute or sell in the state. The bill passed the Senate on Tuesday. “We are hopeful the G
Inside the bitter war over cows and wilderness at Point Reyes (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE — For nearly 60 years, warring camps have battled one another for the soul of a wind-swept peninsula with breathtaking hills, rugged cliffs, granite outcroppings, oak forests and wide expanses of pasture land and beach. Jutting off the coastline like an upside-down ice skate, the Point Reyes National Seashore is sep
Are mosquitoes, ticks and fleas turning California into a disease hotspot? (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Some days it feels like we’re losing a battle against mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, flies and worms. Just this month, tularemia, also known as rabbit fever and caused by a bacterium in ticks and deer flies, was detected in people living on Long Island. A park in Marin County was shut down in July after it was found to be teeming with fleas, which ca
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