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A new report from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California sheds more light on the situation in the Palos Verdes Peninsula, a region along the Los Angeles County coast that juts ...

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That's after several lawsuits were filed, including by the state of California. Reporter: Marisa Lagos, KQED The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began gathering hazardous materials this week ...

New York Times reporters have been writing personal portraits about the fires in the California Today newsletter. Here is a collection of their dispatches on what the disaster means to them ...

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