Help keep Salon independent

Aaron Cantú

An oil pumpjack with a leaky wellhead is dripping with oil into a puddle along the side of a road through the Midway-Sunset oil field in Kern County, California. (Getty Images/Gary Kavanagh)

California lets companies keep “dangerous” oil wells unplugged forever

Aaron Cantú
A banner is displayed as Indigenous and frontline land defenders and community members, who are directly impacted by extraction and destruction funded by JPMorgan Chase, demand that the bank stops all financing of fossil fuels during a protest outside the JPMorgan Chase Glasgow Headquarters in Glasgow on November 10, 2021, during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. (PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

To adapt to climate change, California pays the banks that are part of the problem

Aaron Cantú
Oil pipelines, pumping rigs, and electrical transmission lines dot the landscape along California's "Petroleum Highway" (Highway 33) running along the northwestern side of the San Joaquin Valley on April 24, 2020, near McKittrick, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

California oil industry uses high gasoline prices to roll back climate agenda, critics allege

Aaron Cantú
In an aerial view, floodwaters cover an agricultural area after the Salinas River overflowed its banks on January 13, 2023 in Salinas, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Even after floods hit state, California plans cuts to climate investments

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Oil pipelines, pumping rigs, and electrical transmission lines dot the landscape along California's "Petroleum Highway" (Highway 33) running along the northwestern side of the San Joaquin Valley on April 24, 2020, near McKittrick, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

With California’s OK, Chevron is selling oil from an illegal spill

Aaron Cantú
The US Coast Guard is investigating a broken pipeline to this oil platform, named Elly, that has spewed tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the sea off California. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

California pipeline deal may keep oil pumping for 20 years, despite disastrous spill

Aaron Cantú

7 cities that are playgrounds for the rich and nightmares for the poor

Aaron Cantú
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Robocop nation: 4 disturbing facts about American police militarization

Aaron Cantú

4 disturbing reasons private prisons are so powerful

Aaron Cantú

America on lockdown: Why the private prison industry is exploding

Aaron Cantú

4 shocking examples of police militarization in America’s small towns

Aaron Cantú
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Coming soon: The Starbucks of weed

Aaron Cantú
Michelle Rhee (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The latest dangerous education “reform”: Tracking students’ data

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The drug war’s ugly truth: “Criminalization is inherently incompatible with human rights”

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Study: High schools with gay-straight alliances have reduced risk of student suicide

Aaron Cantú