Morro Bay moves to block new battery plants after fire. ‘We shouldn’t have to live in fear’
The Morro Bay City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to pause the city’s ability to process new battery plant development permits for the next 45 days. The ordinance said battery energy storage ...
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Understanding AB 303: Potential Impacts for California BESS Project Development
A week after a large-scale fire at the Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County, California Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D-Morro Bay) ...
An AI-Powered Robot and Gaming Are Helping Scientists Identify New Deep-Sea Species
Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck of the research vessel Rachel Carson and lowers it into Monterey Bay’s choppy ...
Monterey Co. battery plant fire raises air quality, toxic metal concerns as images capture aftermath
State regulators want more control over how battery storage facilities operate as SJSU researchers have found a large amount ...
Moss Landing fire: Unusually high concentrations of toxic metals found in wetlands near California battery plant
Less than two weeks after a huge fire in Moss Landing at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants, scientists ...
Scientists find heavy metal spike in Moss Landing soil post-battery facility fire
Two Pensacolians went out Thursday to shoot photos of an eerie, empty Escambia Bay Bridge. They got something equally strange ...
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Can California’s battery storage industry survive Moss Landing fire? It better | Opinion
The massive lithium battery fire at Moss Landing confirmed the worst fears of many Californians — including many Morro Bay residents who have been fighting for years to stop a similar project proposed ...
Soil and water testing begins after Moss Landing battery plant fire
KSBW 8 was given an exclusive look inside the Monterey County health lab that received its first water samples Friday afternoon.