Emily Moon, Author at Pacific Standard

California Regulators Move to Protect the State’s Fuel Efficiency Standards

The new plan would require automakers to comply with the state's more stringent greenhouse gas emissions rules despite proposed rollbacks.

California climatologists fact-check the president's tweets on fire and water.

Heavy rains flooded Myanmar this week, displacing 150,000 people and killing at least 12.

Some state legislators seem to agree that California's standards are what's in the United States' best interest.

The plan would end efforts to make cars and trucks average more than 50 miles per gallon by 2025.

Tests have revealed that water in Parchment, Michigan, contains 20 times the federal health advisory for dangerous substances known as PFAS.

Fires have already scorched nearly 300,000 acres in the state this year.

Conflict over the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta has played out over decades of back-and-forth between regulators and farmers.

Smoke from the fire has created dangerous air-quality conditions in Yosemite Valley.

The CDC analysis recorded 14,415 gun-related homicides in 2016.