We’re going on a clean energy tour of the American West. Come along for the ride

This is the April 28, 2022, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. This trip will be just the beginning of an ambitious L.A. Times reporting project we’re calling “Repowering the West.” The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Pine Tree wind and solar farm in the Tehachapi Mountains north of L.A. Over the last century, cities including Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas reshaped the American West by building coal plants, hydropower dams and nuclear reactors to fuel their growth. She pointed to the clean energy tax credits embedded in Biden’s “Build Back Better” bill, which congressional Democrats still hope to pass some version of despite fierce Republican opposition. For the first time ever, Southern California’s Metropolitan Water District will limit outdoor watering to one day per week for about 6 million people, including much of Los Angeles. You should “I ask for wisdom, and for the right words to say to the LADWP.” A coalition of tribes have nominated 186 square miles of the mostly dry Owens Lake for designation as a national historic site, saying the lakebed — which was infamously drained by the city of L.A., and was also the site of several massacres of Native Americans — is sacred ground and important for wildlife, The Times’ Louis Sahagún reports.