State Assemblymember Dawn Addis introduces bill removing fast-track state permitting of BESS projects like the one that ...

AB 303 will remove battery energy storage facilities from the California Energy Commission’s opt-in certification program, ...

Following a fire at a battery storage power plant in Moss Landing, Assemblymember Dawn Addis has introduced legislation that she says will help prevent a similar incident in the future.

The bill comes after a major fire at the Moss Landing Power Plant forced evacuations and road closures last week.

Democrats are worried about batteries after a bad fire at a Central Coast facility, but have very different ideas on what to ...

The current law allows energy storage companies to get approval at the state level, bypassing local jurisdiction, as Vistra ...

HUGE FLAMES BLAZED through the roof of the industrial building. Billowing smoke rose slowly to a plume and moved inland.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has made his first comments since a battery facility fire broke out in Moss Landing on Thursday evening.

So the ball is still mostly in California’s court. And insurers aren’t clamoring for more reforms, after last year’s series of moves by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to allow them to incorporate ...

Scheicho Scheifa is haunted by the fear of going blind. A disease called trachoma has turned his eyelids inwards, causing his eyelashes to scar his corneas so badly that one has already turned opaque.

Assemblymember Dawn Addis spoke in Moss Landing Thursday about the Vistra Energy fire that occurred last Thursday.