After the Moss Landing battery fire, should California limit where battery storage plants can be built?
A business park in South San Jose. Jack London Square in Oakland. The San Diego waterfront. Next door to a high school in Santa Barbara County. Across California, large battery storage plants are being planned and constructed in dozens of locations at a pace faster than anywhere else in the United States.
‘David vs. Goliath’: Residents file lawsuit over Moss Landing battery storage fire
Vistra Energy, PG&E and other defendants face allegations of negligence following Moss Landing battery facility fire in new lawsuit
Environmental Impacts From Moss Landing Plant Fire Still Unknown
Researchers have found unusually high concentrations of toxic heavy metals in surface soils at Elkhorn Slough Reserve in Moss Landing. A group at San Jose State University’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories found levels of nickel, manganese, and cobalt that were hundreds to 1,000 times higher than baseline.
Moss Landing residents file lawsuit against Vistra weeks after battery facility fire
A group of community members filed a lawsuit against Vistra Corp., a Texas-based company that owns the Moss Landing power plant and battery storage facility. The lawsuit demands a full investigation into what caused the fire on Jan.
Moss Landing residents file lawsuit over Northern California lithium battery facility fire
Moss Landing residents have filed a lawsuit against Vistra Corp. and PG&E over the lithium-ion battery storage facility fire last month that triggered evacuations and environmental concerns in the area.
Moss Landing Fire: Erin Brockovich and residents file lawsuit against multiple companies
Several residents of Moss Landing are now suing multiple energy companies over last month's fire at a battery storage ...
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Monterey County's homeless encampment plan, waiting on Moss Landing soil test results
In today's newscast, details on Monterey County's plan to address homeless encampments and Monterey County officials hope to ...
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Moss Landing battery fire hit plant with older, vulnerable technology, expert says
When it opened back in 2020, Vistra Corp.’s Moss Landing battery-powered storage plant was billed as a state-of-the-art component of California’s clean energy future. Today, that facility ...
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Moss Landing Risks: What Could Happen in a Power Plant Fire?
On Thursday, a fire broke out in a battery facility next to the Moss Landing... A stock photograph showing the AES Corporation 495-megawatt Alamitos natural-gas-fired power station in Long Beach ...
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Crashes and Disasters
Researchers at Moss Landing ... plant burns in Moss Landing, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. Less than two weeks after the fire, scientists affiliated with San Jose State University ...
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Moss Landing lithium battery facility fire continues to burn, evacuations lifted
Monterey County officials declared a local state of emergency over the fire on Tuesday. Weather conditions helping in Moss Landing The one fortunate element Thursday evening was the weather. In ...
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Guest Commentary | The Moss Landing fire: Where do we go from here?
There are three major energy goals in California — move away from fossil fuels to a greener electrical grid, have safe, ...
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Moss Landing battery fire: Officials give update on preliminary findings of heavy metals near site
The preliminary results suggest that emissions from the lithium battery fire impacted surface soil in and around Site 8, where all four heavy metals exceeded screening levels in XRF Scan 4,” the ...