California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Wednesday requiring sales of all new passenger vehicles be zero-emission by 2035. The new order would be a huge boost for electric vehicles, and vehicles using alternative fuels like hydrogen, and could boost a sector that’s already surging in California. As an announcement from the California ...

Clean Fleet Report recently spent a day at the BMW Performance Center in Thermal, California (there is also a center in Spartanburg, South Carolina) and were treated to a day of fast acceleration, hard stopping, and aggressive cornering, with the overall goal of improving our ability to control a car.

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If intelligent life beyond Earth (should it exist) could view our planet right now, they might be astonished by the great plume of smoke curling over the ocean. It's a wild sight, captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOA... ...

The dystopia is colored orange. The profoundly dense smoke layer over the San Francisco region on Sept. 9, born from California's record-breaking fire season, resulted in a dramatically orange glow over the city. San Francisco International Airport (... ...

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The second and third largest fires in California history are now burning at the same time. Along with over 500 other fires. The Golden State — a region with long, dry, and sunny Mediterranean summers — naturally burns each year. But not l... ...

Hundreds of fires are burning in California. One of these many blazes, the Dolan Fire, is a grim scene on the normally pleasant explore.org wildlife webcams in the Ventana Wildlife Society's Condor Sanctuary, located some two miles from the Pacific O... ...

Like nearly the entire planet, the hottest place on Earth is growing hotter.  On Sunday, the National Weather Service reported a 130 degree Fahrenheit temperature in Death Valley, Calif., which is likely the highest temperature ever accurately r... ...

California-based startup Mission Bio has raised a new $70 million Series C funding round, led by Novo Growth and including participation from Soleus Capital and existing investors Mayfield, Cota and Agilent. Mission Bio will use the funding to scale its Tapestri Platform, which uses the company’s work in single-cell multi-omics technology to help optimize clinical ...

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