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  1. A wet year boosted California's groundwater, but not enough to address long-term declines California's groundwater levels rose significantly in 2023, one of the wettest years in decades. State officials say efforts to replenish aquifers helped.
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  2. Amazon and Volvo team up on big rig electric trucks, rolling out of Southern California ports The rollout of Amazon's big rigs at the L.A. and Long Beach port complex is part of a shift to zero out pollution from trucking in California.
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  3. Anger builds over sweeping change in the way most Californians will pay for electricity With little public debate, state lawmakers passed a complex energy bill that upended how most Californians are billed for electricity.
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  4. The temperature inside these L.A. museums is changing. Why that's a win for climate action MOCA, the Hammer and other L.A. museums rethink how much they cool and heat their galleries as part of a Getty PST Art initiative to combat climate change.
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  5. Young voters don't give Biden credit for passing the biggest climate bill in history Many young voters don’t know much about Biden's climate record. And many activists who helped fuel his 2020 victory are angry about Gaza and a drilling project.
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  6. Tiny Central Coast newsroom Lookout Santa Cruz wins Pulitzer Prize Lookout Santa Cruz has won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the 2023 flooding along the Central Coast.
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  7. California's wild weather continues, with snowiest day of the year recorded in May A late season storm dumped nearly 2 feet of snow on some regions of Northern California over the weekend, breaking a daily seasonal snowfall record for the Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab.
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  8. Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center overwhelmed by number of starving brown pelicans found in past month Scores of emaciated brown pelicans, too weak to fly, have been found on Southern California beaches in the last month
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  9. 'Nothing is untouched': DDT found in deep-sea fish raises troubling concerns for food web Scientists have found DDT in zooplankton and deep-sea fish off the coast of L.A., indicating the toxic chemical might be infiltrating the base of the food web.
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