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Environment reporter @latimes. Covering wildfires, drought and climate change in California

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Hayley Smith is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, where she writes breaking news and enterprise stories about topics like coronavirus, climate change and all things California. She is the recipient of a Pulitzer Center grant for COVID-19 reporting and a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists. She holds a Master’s degree in journalism from USC Annenberg.

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These parts of L.A. barely felt the winter coronavirus surge. Here is why they were spared

These parts of L.A. barely felt the winter coronavirus surge. Here is why they were spared

The winter surge of COVID-19 brutalized much of Los Angeles County, sending case rates and deaths skyrocketin…

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'Just living with pain': Women's healthcare waylaid by COVID-19 pandemic

'Just living with pain': Women's healthcare waylaid by COVID-19 pandemic

When Stephanie Fajuri, 36, had an abnormal Pap smear a decade ago, her doctor advised her to come in for annu…

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'Separate and unequal': South L.A.'s MLK hospital faces crisis on top of crisis

'Separate and unequal': South L.A.'s MLK hospital faces crisis on top of crisis

Under the hum of mechanical equipment and the steady chirp of a heart-rate monitor, a COVID-19 patient lies q…

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Beds filling halls. Agonizing ER waits. Burned-out staff. Inside overloaded California hospitals

Beds filling halls. Agonizing ER waits. Burned-out staff. Inside overloaded California hospitals

When Erick Fernandez's alarm goes off at 4:30 a.m., the stress begins. As an emergency room nurse at Antelope…

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Private fire crews in wine country raise concerns over equity and safety

Private fire crews in wine country raise concerns over equity and safety

As California wildfires get worse, the role of private firefighting crews helping well-heeled clients protect…

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The frightening implications of California's first million-acre fire

The frightening implications of California's first million-acre fire

It was mid-August and California was experiencing yet another bout of extreme weather. In Death Valley, the t…

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Trump administration advances plan to rescind ‘Roadless Rule' protecting national forests

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| Belleville News-Democrat Verified
Pockets of snow cling to the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Mammoth Lakes on Thursday, July 27, 2023. The last vestiges of last winter's dense snowpack have lasted throughout the range well into this summer. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times/TNS) The Trump administration on Tuesday advanced a formal proposal to rescind a decades-old rule that protects more than 44 million acres of national forestland from road construction and timber harvesting, including about 4.4 million acres in California.
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Environmental justice group sues California over carbon market overhaul

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| Yahoo Verified
An environmental justice group is suing California's top air regulator over its sweeping overhaul of the state's cap-and-invest carbon market program, claiming it illegally rushed a last-minute incentive for industrial polluters. The lawsuit from the nonprofit Communities for a Better Environment alleges that the California Air Resources Board bypassed required environmental reviews when it approved a major update to the cap-and-invest program at the end of May.
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ER visits spiked during toxic Boyle Heights warehouse fire

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| Yahoo Verified
The number of Angelenos who went to the hospital with throat pain and concerns about smoke inhalation spiked as a fire burned through the massive Lineage cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights this month, The Times has learned. The blaze burned for eight days beginning June 17 and involved solar panels, insulation foam and other industrial materials.
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