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It’s been six months since the Vistra fire ignited in Moss Landing. What’s taking cleanup so long?
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It’s been six months since the Vistra fire ignited in Moss Landing. What’s taking cleanup so long?

  • Dave Faries
  • Jul 12, 2025

One of the most important roles of any media outlet is not in breaking news or explaining the impact of a piece of legislation—although those …

Nearly six months since the Vistra fire ignited in Moss Landing, cleanup has yet to begin.
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Nearly six months since the Vistra fire ignited in Moss Landing, cleanup has yet to begin.

  • David Schmalz
  • Jul 10, 2025

It’s been nearly six months to the day since a Jan. 16 fire consumed Vistra’s 300 megawatt battery energy storage system (BESS) in Moss Landin…

The Vistra fire in Moss Landing caught everyone by surprise. What can we learn from it?
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The Vistra fire in Moss Landing caught everyone by surprise. What can we learn from it?

  • David Schmalz
  • Mar 27, 2025
  • 17 min to read

Just before 5pm on April 19, 2019, an alarm was triggered by smoke at a small battery energy storage facility in Surprise, Arizona. Firefighte…

Health officials want to know your experience with the Vistra fire—whether you were impacted or not.
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Health officials want to know your experience with the Vistra fire—whether you were impacted or not.

  • Erik Chalhoub
  • Mar 12, 2025

Erik Chalhoub here, having just finished filling out a survey to share my experience with the Jan. 16 fire at the Vistra battery facility in M…

State scientists report that soil and water contamination from the Vistra fire pose no serious health risk.
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State scientists report that soil and water contamination from the Vistra fire pose no serious health risk.

  • David Schmalz
  • Mar 7, 2025

Within hours of a fire igniting on Jan. 16 at a Vistra’s battery plant in Moss Landing, some residents who live nearby or were downwind from t…

The long process begins toward a careful, calculated recovery from the Vistra Fire.
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The long process begins toward a careful, calculated recovery from the Vistra Fire.

  • David Schmalz
  • Feb 27, 2025

Nearly six weeks after a battery fire ignited inside a building at Vistra’s Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility on Jan. 16, the site remains …

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