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A new study that compiles decades of data on air quality in the Salton Sea region says there is more to worry about than polluted dust from the exposed beach of the shrinking sea.

Ozone, hydrogen sulfide gas, algal blooms, black carbon, wildfires, incinerators, landfill fires and unpaved roads contribute to the cocktail of bad air, according to the report, published on Thursday by Pacific Institute, a California-based sustainability research organization.

Tanned, rested and presumably ready after a summer vacation break, state legislators will return to the Capitol next week for the final month of their 2025 session.

The session’s final weeks will be dominated by bills aimed at registering blue California’s dislike of and opposition to President Donald Trump. The most prominent will be Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to redraw boundaries of California’s 52 congressional districts, giving Democrats five more seats to counter efforts in Texas to create five more Republican seats.

After one of the Colorado River’s driest years in decades, Lake Mead and Lake Powell — the largest reservoirs in the country — could see alarming declines in the coming years, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced today.

Federal officials again called for Arizona and Nevada to cut back their supplies from the overtapped river — though California, with its senior claims to the river’s water, will be spared.