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Oklahoma’s Oil Industry Touts a Voluntary Fund to Clean Up Oil Wells. Major Drillers Want Their Contributions Refunded.

Oklahoma’s oil industry pays into a voluntary fund to clean up oil wells, but many drillers opt out. The money that has been refunded to these companies in recent years could have restored an estimated 1,500 orphan well sites.

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Snow White and Luke Skywalker Ride the Union Wave at Disneyland

Character actors, the face of the resort, unionize to address safety concerns and to push for better pay.

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In Los Angeles, Your Chic Vacation Rental May Be a Rent-Controlled Apartment

Amid an affordable housing crisis, dozens of rent-controlled buildings are listed on short-term rental websites. A 2018 law was supposed to stop that, but the city is struggling to enforce it.

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The Wrong Name On the Lease Could Cost Zoila Funes Her Home of 38 Years

Funes' rent-controlled apartment is in the name of her recently deceased husband. Her landlord says that's cause for eviction.

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USC Health Care Workers Say They Are Pushed to the Brink of a Strike

At Keck Medicine, which brings in almost half the university’s revenue, workers say their wages and benefits lag other large health systems.

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Denver Residents Fight Proposal to Drill for Oil and Gas Under Their Homes

Vanguard among the institutional investors that dominate fossil-fuel financing.

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California Isn’t Enforcing Its Strongest-in-the-Nation Oil Well Cleanup Law on Its Largest Oil Company

State regulators could have asked oil companies California Resources Corp. and Aera Energy for an estimated $2.4 billion to guarantee wells are plugged but decided they didn’t have the authority to do so.

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Plans to Extend and Expand Trump-Era Tax Cuts Would Largely Benefit the Wealthy

Though most Americans think the rich don’t pay their fair share, conservatives still want to lower their taxes.

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Once Upon a Time in MacArthur Park: Gangs, Murder and Redemption

In The Rent Collectors, Jesse Katz explores the saga of Giovanni Macedo through the lens of L.A.’s fabled park.

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Showdown in Colorado: Whether to Drill Under Homes, Schools and the Water Supply

A plan for drilling 156 oil and gas wells near a Superfund site has driven suburban residents to action.

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How Britain’s July 4 Elections Differ From the U.S.

A parliamentary system, more disciplined parties and no electoral college have some advantages for democracy, says Cambridge-based U.S. historian Gary Gerstle.

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Capital & Main Wins 20 Prizes at the Southern California Journalism Awards

Capital & Main took first place in the highly competitive Best News Website, Exclusive to the Internet category.

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Trump’s Environmental Agenda: Embrace Big Oil, Ignore the Climate Crisis

Project 2025 plan to gut climate policy and boost fossil fuels could set back global efforts for decades, say scientists and analysts.

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Occidental College Undergrad Workers Go Union

Vote adds to growing unionization among U.S. undergraduate workers.

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Reimagining Economic Possibilities After the Pandemic

In The Guarantee, Natalie Foster discusses how the pandemic spurred bold economic reforms and highlights the need for ongoing advocacy to ensure a more fair economy.

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Will California’s Largest Oil Well Owner Get a Pass on Paying to Clean Up Its Mess?

A new state law mandates that oil companies put up money to plug wells before acquiring them. It could fail its first big test, putting taxpayers on the hook.

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In Deep Water

Around the world, lands with water and food resources are being snatched up by powerful interests. The Grab director Gabriela Cowperthwaite discusses her documentary that is both a geopolitical thriller and a call to action.

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Hydrogen Hyped by Lobbyists and Lawmakers Across the Country, Despite Concerns

Here are the most environmentally friendly banks in the U.S. — is yours on the list?

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Migrants Detained in San Diego Are Quietly Being Moved Out of State

Dozens are relocated by ICE, cutting them off from their attorneys and, sometimes, their families.

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Pennsylvania Landowners Could Be Forced To Accept Carbon Dioxide Burial On Their Land

Environmentalists fear leaks, explosions, earthquakes and more from a carbon capture bill with bipartisan support.

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UC Student Assistants, Striking Over Response to Gaza Protests, Say It Is Time to Negotiate

The union says that following a string of wins by campus unions nationwide, the university may fear losing at the table in the current fight over use of police and sanctions to quell protests.

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The Return of Trickle-Down Economics

In Kansas, Mississippi and other states, tax cuts for the wealthy could bring devastating reductions to education, health and other vital programs.

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In Rural Pennsylvania, Crypto Mining Offers a Lifeline for Dying Gas Wells

Emails show Diversified largely kept the state in the dark as it fired up its bitcoin mining operation.

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The Pleasure and Pain of Chiles, Cultivated by Colonialism

Victor Valle connects the dots between the growth of chile consumption in North America and the devaluing of native knowledge and labor.

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The Road to a Decarbonized Future or Just Another Lifeline for Fossil Fuels?

With billions in tax credits at stake, Pennsylvania gas producer CNX wants in on the hydrogen revolution

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