Nissan takes the all-electric Leaf car on a marketing tour, starting in Los Angeles, a place where people spend too much time in their cars.

One satisfied customer was said her kids “call it the Shower Nazi…”

At lunchtime in California’s San Joaquin Valley, farmers meet up at Jack’s Prime Time Restaurant, where they can get a good, honest meal … just what one expects from an establishment smack dab in the middle of the most productive farming region in the world.
But the mood at Jack’s is decidely somber. A few days earlier, the farmers in [...]

(Writing and reporting by Steve Gorman)
After an hourlong tour of the world’s largest wastewater recycling plant, where 70,000 gallons of pre-treated sewer discharge is distilled daily to help replenish the underground drinking supply of Orange County, California, I was led to a sink with a faucet. There I was presented with a plastic cup and [...]

If the annoying sound of a leaf blower isn’t enough to put you off this gardening tool, maybe the choking pollution is. In one year, the average blower used by a professional gardener emits as much smog-forming pollution as 80 new cars, each driven 12,500 miles.
That startling figure comes from California’s South Coast Air Quality [...]

The U.S. South doesn’t get many accolades for its work on the environment, but the city of Fayetteville, Arkansas, collected a top climate prize this weekend from U.S. mayors eager to cut greenhouse gas emissions while Washington dithers. Fayetteville has built 129 miles of multi-use trails for a population of just 65,000 — prompting residents [...]