When fire broke out at the world’s largest battery energy storage facility in January 2025, its thick smoke blanketed surrounding wetlands, farms and nearby communities on the central California coast ...

Here are your headlines for the morning of Tuesday, January 27th, 2026: It has been about a year since a fire burned the ...

A year after a significant battery plant fire in Moss Landing, residents continue to demand answers and accountability, forming a community advocacy group to address concerns over air quality and ...

Scientists are now getting a clearer picture of how last winter’s fire at the Vistra battery plant in Moss Landing has affected nearby wetlands. Researchers at San José State University’s Moss Landing ...

One year after a massive fire at the Moss Landing battery plant forced evacuations and shut down Highway 1, the plant remains offline, and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

After a thermal runaway set the world’s largest battery storage facility on fire last winter near Monterey, Ivano Aiello and his colleagues at San José State University had some detective work to do.

The Hurley Republican Committee voted Jan. 21 to formally oppose Terra-Gen’s proposed 250-megawatt lithium-ion Battery Energy Storage System at 430 Hurley Avenue, the former John A. Coleman Catholic ...

People who live near Moss Landing still have more questions than answers about the massive fire that started Jan. 16, 2025, at the world’s second-largest battery storage facility.

Growing up in Aptos and later moving to Mexico, Solano occasionally helped out in her father’s restaurant, The Whole Enchilada, which closed in early 2024. In 2000, she opened and ran her own ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ivano W. Aiello, San José State University (THE CONVERSATION) When fire broke out at ...