About this podcast
Join Boiling Point in its second season as independent investigative reporter Miranda Green walks listeners through the climate challenges and solutions facing our natural world. Produced by LA Times Studios, the weekly series will feature interviews with Los Angeles Times reporters, state officials, business leaders and scientific experts discussing the latest news and trends impacting Californians and the country.
Episodes
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- AI Bots Are Lobbying Against Clean Energy · 35 min · Episode 60On this week’s episode of Boiling Point, Miranda Green speaks with Los Angeles Times climate reporter Hayley Smith about how AI bots are meddling in California’s clean energy…
- The Climate Law That Trump Couldn’t Quite Kill · 43 min · Episode 59In her new book, The Carbon Wave, political scientist Leah Stokes traces the years of work involved in the creation of the Inflation Reduction Act, the landmark climate law that…
- Is there a Greener AI option? · 44 min · Episode 58Artificial Intelligence or AI seems to be all around us. It’s part of every conversation, every news cycle, and in every product. When people talk about AI, data centers are…
- Introducing: The California Politics Podcast · 29 min · Episode 57Hosted by Emmy Award-winning journalist Beth Ruyak, California Politics Podcast is a weekly show examining the latest news, trends and policies shaping the Golden State. Each…
- Boiling Point Live at Climate Week NYC · 57 min · Episode 56How do you get more people to care about climate change — and tell riveting stories along the way? Boiling Point explored that question at a live event during this year’s New…
- The Myth of Forest Management · 44 min · Episode 55Boiling Point’s Miranda Green and Heated’s Emily Atkin team up in a collaborative episode exploring the truth behind forest management. They speak with principal ecologist and…
- Can Your Plants Stop California's Wildfires? · 46 min · Episode 54Wildfires in California are getting bigger and more destructive. Now, state regulators are turning to homeowners to take a new approach to fire prevention– starting with their…
- The Colorado River Is Experiencing a Megadrought. Can The West Adapt? · 40 min · Episode 53The Colorado River has sustained communities, farms and cities across the American West for generations. But the river is shrinking due to hotter temperatures and less rainfall…
- Bonus Episode: Are Trump’s Offshore Wind Settlements a “Sham”? AG Rob Bonta Thinks So. · 26 min · Episode 52California on Friday filed its 88th lawsuit against the Trump administration– this time suing them for an “illegal” settlement it entered into to stop an offshore lease sale in…
- Can Offshore Wind Survive the Trump Administration? · 51 min · Episode 51California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects…
- A Super El Niño Is Coming. Are We Ready? · 48 min · Episode 50From an unnamed weather event to an SNL punchline, our awareness of El Niño has grown rapidly over the past several decades. And now, as climate change raises the stakes and a…
- Why Whales Are Getting Hit by Rising Ocean Temps · 34 min · Episode 49This year, sea mammals and birds have been washing up along the western coastline in alarming numbers. Gray whales, which migrate from Baja California up to Canada are suffering…
- Two New Plastics Laws are Bringing a Whole Lot of Baggage · 36 min · Episode 48California implemented two landmark plastics laws this year that aimed to answer an existential question: who is responsible for plastics waste? Both bills are intended to put…
- California’s Offshore Drilling Nightmare · 35 min · Episode 47When a pipeline off Gaviota Coast cracked in 2015 and spewed 123,000 gallons of oil into the ocean, local officials shut it down for 11 years. But this past spring, A federal…
- Presenting: Season 2 of Boiling Point · 3 minJoin “Boiling Point” in its second season as independent investigative journalist Miranda Green walks listeners through the climate challenges and solutions facing our natural…
- Smoglandia Pt 6: FUTURE ELECTRIC, FUTURE TROUBLE · 45 min · Episode 46Decades ago, some unhappy Angeleno wondered why cars couldn’t just run on nice, clean … water? Not for want of trying – cleaner power has created lots of engine experiments, most…
- Smoglandia Pt 5: SMOG CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK · 38 min · Episode 45Whaddya know – the federal government sees the wisdom of working with California and its “queen of green” for cleaner air – up to a point. The Golden State gets its own “secret…
- Smoglandia Pt 4: SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT, BESTIES? · 36 min · Episode 44Well, it took long enough. We finally realized that smog didn’t stop at some city limits line … that burning the family trash in the backyard incinerator wasn’t a good idea … and…
- Smoglandia Pt 3: COUGH COUGH · 34 min · Episode 43Living with smog was like living with an obnoxious neighbor. Angelenos tried protesting at city hall. They kept their coughing kids inside. A couple of actors manufactured joke…
- Smoglandia Pt 2: SCIENCE TO THE RESCUE · 33 min · Episode 42By the late 1940's, Los Angeles had experienced several extreme smog days -- or "gas attacks" as they were called back then. Everyone had their eyes on wartime factories that had…
