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Snow blankets the meadow where the California Department of Water Resources prepares to conduct the third media snow survey of the 2026 season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada. The snow survey is held approximately 90 miles east of Sacramento off Highway 50 in El Dorado County. Photo taken February 27, 2026. Xavier Mascareñas / California Department of Water Resources

California’s snowpack was already meager. Now comes an extraordinary heat wave

Winter has brought California’s Sierra Nevada a below-average amount of snow, and the snowpack has been shrinking for weeks.

FILE - Giant wind turbine blades for the Vineyard Winds project are stacked on racks in the harbor, July 11, 2023, in New Bedford, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Construction finishes on a major offshore wind farm, the first during Trump’s tenure

TAFT, CA - JULY 22: Oil rigs just south of town extract crude for Chevron at sunrise on July 22, 2008 in Taft, California. Hemmed in by the richest oil fields in California, the oil town of 6,700 with a stagnant economy and little room to expand has hatched an ambitious plan to annex vast expanses of land reaching eastward to Interstate 5, 18 miles away, and taking over various poor unincorporated communities to triple its population to around 20,000. With the price as light sweet crude at record high prices, Chevron and other companies are scrambling to drill new wells and reopen old wells once considered unprofitable. The renewed profits for oil men of Kern County, where more than 75 percent of all the oil produced in California flows, do not directly translate increased revenue for Taft. The Taft town council wants to cash in on the new oil boom with increased tax revenues from a NASCAR track and future developments near the freeway. In an earlier oil boom era, Taft was the site of the 1910 Lakeside Gusher, the biggest oil gusher ever seen in the US, which sent 100,000 barrels a day into a lake of crude. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Oil prices are skyrocketing, but this is why companies won’t rush to drill in California

A chemical and petroleum industrial corridor, that is a known source of ethylene oxide emissions, is seen from this aerial photo, in Ascension Parish, La., Friday, June 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Federal EPA moves to roll back recent limits on ethylene oxide, a carcinogen

A pedestrian holds a cloud themed umbrella under a sunny day next to Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles Thursday, March. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

U.S. forecasts blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome and atmospheric river all at once

Fuel, energy prices raise the pressure as California officials take next steps on climate

Trump administration tries to further dissolve California’s clean car rules

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