In the wake of a spate of fires at battery storage facilities across the state, the California Public Utilities Commission will soon vote on establishing new standards for maintaining and operating them. If passed, the proposal also increases oversight for emergency response at energy storage sites that use batteries.

The California Public Utilities Commission approved Waymo's autonomous vehicle program in Los Angeles in March 2024. The service was expanded to the public in November. Aside from Los Angeles, the company also has driverless cars in San Francisco and Phoenix, with plans to expand to Austin, Atlanta and Miami.

Officials say that the proposal will make other technical updates to the standards to improve safety, reliability, and effectiveness of operating and maintenance activities, such as establishing techn

The Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company Waymo announced on Tuesday that it will begin testing its fleet of driverless robotaxis on the Los Angel

Recent wildfires in California are sparking debates on potential utility culpability, leading many people to ask the simple question: why aren't more power lines buried underground?

Big tech energy needs, including for artificial intelligence, has elected officials giving nuclear power a serious reexamination

That is a terrible idea, full stop. Lawmakers shouldn’t use the fires as an excuse to slow down on clean energy — not when scientists say humanity must slash emissions much faster to keep the climate crisis from getting worse, and not when the climate crisis is a significant reason we’re seeing these catastrophic fires in the first place.

The recent rainfall and increased debris from fire zones have prompted Los Angeles County public health officials ... carbon dioxide on average, California’s lost six times more than any other ...

LOS ANGELES — Southern California Edison is asking state regulators to make its customers cover more than $7 billion in damages it paid to the victims of two devastating wildfires

President Donald Trump rescinded his spending freeze, but billions of dollars in federal funds are still up in the air.

On the night the deadly Eaton Fire broke out in Los Angeles County, a gas station video camera captured what appeared to be sparks on a steep flank of Mount Wilson on Altadena’s outskirts and then flames spreading across the hillside.