The Moss Landing battery inferno was billed as a clean energy mishap, but the fallout was anything but clean. A new wave of research now shows that the blaze lofted a plume of toxic metals that ...

When fire broke out at the world’s largest battery energy storage facility in January 2025, its thick smoke blanketed surrounding wetlands, farms and nearby communities on the central California coast ...

After a massive blaze at one of the world’s largest battery storage facilities in Monterey County this past January, thick smoke spread over the area, and residents reported ailments such as bloody ...

The Texas company that owns the battery storage plant at Moss Landing, California, that burned in a spectacular fire in January, raising questions nationwide about the safety of the fast-growing ...

Time-lapse footage from KSBW’s live cameras shows the moment the Vistra battery plant fire broke out in Moss Landing—one year ago today on Jan. 16,202.The blaze triggered evacuation orders across the ...

"We know investigations often lag, but the lack of clear information leads us to ask troubling questions," the Lookout Editorial Board writes more than a year after the massive fire at the Moss ...

In early January, the massive Moss Landing Power Plant just north of Monterey caught fire, leaving an entire community mired in noxious air as the blaze burned for days. The plant, home to lithium ion ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ivano W. Aiello, San José State University (THE CONVERSATION) When fire broke out at ...