This week, Meta laid off 8,000 employees—10 percent of the company’s staff—and reassigned another 7,000 to train AI models. Fear of the layoffs had been building around the company for weeks, compounded by the way that Meta has taken a sharp turn from a company built by coders to a company that has staked its […]

Thousands of Orange County residents were once again under evacuation orders Friday morning after a massive storage tank leaked at an aerospace facility, sending toxic fumes into the air. The Orange County Fire Authority said around 6:30 a.m. Friday that evacuation orders were being reissued “due to changing conditions” as hazmat crews continued mitigation efforts […]

Thousands of Orange County residents are once again under evacuation orders Friday morning after a massive storage tank leak at an aerospace facility in Garden Grove continued to raise concerns overnight. The Orange County Fire Authority said around 6:30 a.m. Friday that evacuation orders were being reissued “due to changing conditions” as hazmat crews continued […]

Thousands of residents were evacuated after a 34,000-gallon storage tank spewed toxic chemicals into the air in Garden Grove Thursday. The toxic leak was reported at the GKN Aerospace facility at 12122 Western Ave. around 3:30 p.m. Orange County Fire Authority crews responded to the facility and determined the tank was leaking methyl methacrylate, a […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is in a spat with a major oil company over who is to blame for the state’s high gas prices, with the Democratic governor’s office urging drivers not to fill up at Chevron stations over Memorial Day weekend. “Pro tip: unbranded gas comes from the same refineries, […]

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Texas sun keeps rising, as Texas coal wanes. For the first time ever, solar is set to generate more electricity than coal in the power market managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Nobody is building new coal power […]