When fire broke out at the world’s largest battery energy storage facility in January 2025, its thick smoke blanketed surrounding wetlands, farms and nearby communities on the central California coast ...

A group of researchers says they have found high concentrations of heavy metals in a California estuary near the site of a major fire that destroyed a battery storage facility south of San Francisco ...

Days after one of the world’s largest lithium ion battery storage facilities burst into flames in Monterey County, researchers found alarmingly high concentrations of heavy metals at a nearby estuary ...

MOSS LANDING — New testing found higher than usual toxic metal particles in the marsh soils of Elkhorn Slough estuary, contributing the rise to the recent fire at the Moss Landing Battery Plant.