Nadia Lopez

Sheep graze in a field at the site of a proposed development by California Forever in Solano County, California, US, on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. California Forever, a group with plans to create a new California city, introduced a ballot measure asking Solano County residents to approve changes to zoning regulations from the 1980s that limit development outside of existing cities. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

California’s new utopian city has been put on hold because its billionaire backers can’t agree with locals

By Nadia Lopez and Bloomberg

Shashank Samala, co-founder and CEO of Heirloom Carbon, at the company headquarters in Brisbane, California, on October 9, 2023. Scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air is imperative if humanity is to limit global warming, experts say, and a California startup claims it can do just that by using limestone as a carbon-sucking sponge.<br />
San Francisco-based Heirloom Carbon has become a hot name in the nascent capture technology sector, even sealing a deal with Microsoft to help the Windows-maker meet its zero-carbon ambitions.<br />
Governments are also embracing similar innovations to meet their climate goals as CO2 emissions remain too high to mitigate the greenhouse effect that causes the devastation of climate change. (Photo by Jenn CAIN / AFP) (Photo by JENN CAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. climate change fight hits a huge milestone with opening of first plant that can suck 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the air annually

By Nadia Lopez and Bloomberg

In this aerial photo, a parcel of land recently purchased by Flannery Associates is seen from above near Rio Vista, California on September 15, 2023. A stealth campaign by Silicon Valley elites with a dream of turning a swath of California farmland into a new age city has ranchers who live here challenging their tactics as well as their motives. The project first surfaced when a mysterious buyer started gobbling up parcels of land in this rural outback between San Francisco and Sacramento. The buyer, first revealed by the New York Times in August, turned out to be a secretive outfit called Flannery Associates. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Silicon Valley billionaires are done buying land for their planned tech utopia after spending $800 million and starting a legal war

By Nadia Lopez, Dave Merrill, and others

In this aerial photo, a parcel of land recently purchased by Flannery Associates is seen from above near Rio Vista, California on September 15, 2023. A stealth campaign by Silicon Valley elites with a dream of turning a swath of California farmland into a new age city has ranchers who live here challenging their tactics as well as their motives. The project first surfaced when a mysterious buyer started gobbling up parcels of land in this rural outback between San Francisco and Sacramento. The buyer, first revealed by the New York Times in August, turned out to be a secretive outfit called Flannery Associates. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Silicon Valley elites ‘strong armed’ farmers to sell their land for a would-be tech utopia, lawsuit says

By Nadia Lopez and Bloomberg