New safety standards, oversight proposed for lithium battery facilities after Moss Landing fire
In the wake of the recent fire at Vistra Corporation's Moss Landing Power Plant and Energy Storage Facility, the California Public Utilities Commission has proposed new standards for battery energy storage facilities.
Scientists find heavy metal spike in Moss Landing soil post-battery facility fire
Research scientists at San José State University's Moss Landing Marine Laboratories said they have detected "unusually high concentrations of heavy-metal nanoparticles in marsh soils at Elkhorn Slough Reserve.
Moss Landing fire may be death knell for another lithium battery plant on California coast
In the wake of the Moss Landing lithium battery plant fire, another coastal Calif. town tells Texas company to go away for good.
Moss Landing lithium battery facility fire continues to burn, evacuations lifted
Authorities in Monterey County, California lifted all evacuations Friday night, one day after a fire broke out at one of the world's largest lithium battery storage facilities.
Scientists link surge in heavy metals in soil to California lithium battery plant fire
Scientists have linked a lithium battery plant fire in California earlier this month to a surge in heavy metals found in nearby soil.
Scientists find toxic metals in California wetland after Moss Landing battery plant fire
About two weeks after a fire at Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County, San Jose State University scientists reported unusually high concentrations of heavy metals in the soils of Elkhorn Slough — hundreds to a thousand times higher than previous measurements.
Elevated levels of heavy metals found in Elkhorn Slough following Northern California lithium battery facility fire
Elevated concentrations of heavy metals have been detected at the Elkhorn Slough Reserve by scientists following a recent fire at Vistra Moss Landing Power Plant and Energy Storage Facility.
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Lithium battery fire erupts in Moss Landing. Why are these fires so difficult to put out?
Experts have said that these types of fires will become more prevalent as the demand of electric vehicles and machinery ...
Moss Landing fire: Unusually high concentrations of toxic metals found in wetlands near California battery plant
Less than two weeks after a huge fire in Moss Landing at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants, scientists ...
'It is a charred, stinking mess': Moss Landing residents demand action after latest lithium battery fire
Residents of Moss Landing are demanding the removal of lithium battery facilities after another fire forced evacuations and ...
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Fire out at Moss Landing battery plant, heat pockets persist; EPA concludes air monitoring
Five days after the world’s largest lithium battery fire ignited at Vistra Energy Corporation in Moss Landing the Monterey County Board of Supervisors called on all battery storage ...
Monterey County officials call Moss Landing lithium battery storage fire a ‘wake-up call’
A plume of material released from the plant contained hydroflouride, a toxic gas, that is now being monitored by Monterey ...
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Moss Landing battery fire: Unusually high concentrations of toxic metals found in wetlands near plant
Lithium battery fires burn at high temperatures ... Analyzing the soils with an electron microscope at Moss Landing labs, he said the spiked levels of battery metals were found in the top ...