Lucy Stone is the executive director of Climate Spring, a production company that has the goal of getting climate focused stories on TV and the big screen.

For the first episode in Boiling Point’s Planet Hollywood series, Host Miranda Green speaks with Stone about the challenges filmmakers are facing in Hollywood, what makes good climate stories pop with audiences, and how more people than ever before are connecting with climate storylines.

Join Boiling Point in its second season as independent investigative reporter Miranda Green walks listeners through the climate challenges and solutions facing our natural world. Produced by LA Times Studios, the weekly series will feature interviews with Los Angeles Times reporters, state officials, business leaders and scientific experts discussing the latest news and trends impacting Californians and the country.

On this week’s episode of Boiling Point, Miranda Green speaks with Los Angeles Times climate reporter Hayley Smith about how AI bots are meddling in California’s clean energy policymaking. Plus, Susanne Rust shares the latest from the Boiling Point newsletter, including updates on plastics policy.

Join Boiling Point in its second season as independent investigative reporter Miranda Green walks listeners through the climate challenges and solutions facing our natural world. Produced by LA Times Studios, the weekly series will feature interviews with Los Angeles Times reporters, state officials, business leaders and scientific experts discussing the latest news and trends impacting Californians and the country.

In her new book, The Carbon Wave, political scientist Leah Stokes traces the years of work involved in the creation of the Inflation Reduction Act, the landmark climate law that she helped shape. She talks with Miranda Green about the law’s legacy, how it has endured despite Trump, and the future of clean energy in the U.S. And Boiling Point reporter Noah Haggerty recaps the week in climate news.

Join Boiling Point in its second season as independent investigative reporter Miranda Green walks listeners through the climate challenges and solutions facing our natural world. Produced by LA Times Studios, the weekly series will feature interviews with Los Angeles Times reporters, state officials, business leaders and scientific experts discussing the latest news and trends impacting Californians and the country.

Artificial Intelligence or AI seems to be all around us. It’s part of every conversation, every news cycle, and in every product. When people talk about AI, data centers are typically not far behind. But data centers use up a ton of energy and only about 24% of it comes from wind and solar.

Host Miranda Green speaks with Los Angeles Times reporter Blanca Begert about how this new reality is driving immense pushback in California, and forcing state leaders to adopt a new slate of bills aimed at curbing water use and getting tech companies to pay out for certain electric grid upgrades.

But there may be a solution. Green also speaks with Cassie Buhler, a Berkeley researcher who says there may already be an alternative to commercial AI that uses roughly 100 times less power.

Join Boiling Point in its second season as independent investigative reporter Miranda Green walks listeners through the climate challenges and solutions facing our natural world. Produced by LA Times Studios, the weekly series will feature interviews with Los Angeles Times reporters, state officials, business leaders and scientific experts discussing the latest news and trends impacting Californians and the country.

Hosted by Emmy Award-winning journalist Beth Ruyak, California Politics Podcast is a weekly show examining the latest news, trends and policies shaping the Golden State. Each week during the legislative session, Ruyak sits down with lawmakers, academics and journalists from the Los Angeles Times Sacramento bureau and across the state to break down Capitol decisions and their impact on Californians. The series unpacks complex policy shifts through reporting and analysis, spotlighting critical races, high-stakes legislation and key power struggles across the state.

Legendary journalist George Skelton has covered nine California governors. In our first episode, the L.A. Times columnist sizes up the governors he's known, what made them successful and whether the next one can measure up. Then, L.A. Times politics editor Phil Willon joins us to discuss why state politics coverage matters now more than ever.

Join Boiling Point in its second season as independent investigative reporter Miranda Green walks listeners through the climate challenges and solutions facing our natural world. Produced by LA Times Studios, the weekly series will feature interviews with Los Angeles Times reporters, state officials, business leaders and scientific experts discussing the latest news and trends impacting Californians and the country.

How do you get more people to care about climate change — and tell riveting stories along the way? Boiling Point explored that question at a live event during this year’s New York City Climate Week at Columbia University’s Climate School. Host Miranda Green was joined by climate activist and author Bill McKibben, New York Times climate reporter David Gelles, Woo Qiyun, a senior communications manager at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Alexis Abramson, dean of the Columbia Climate School.

Join Boiling Point in its second season as independent investigative reporter Miranda Green walks listeners through the climate challenges and solutions facing our natural world. Produced by LA Times Studios, the weekly series will feature interviews with Los Angeles Times reporters, state officials, business leaders and scientific experts discussing the latest news and trends impacting Californians and the country.

Boiling Point’s Miranda Green and Heated’s Emily Atkin team up in a collaborative episode exploring the truth behind forest management. They speak with principal ecologist and co-founder of the John Muir Project, Chad Hanson, and Hugh Safford, a retired ecologist for the US Forest Service and director of the The Safford Lab at UC-Davis. Together, they dive into the fiery debate around logging, thinning, prescribed burns and how best to approach fire prevention in a warming world.

Join Boiling Point in its second season as independent investigative reporter Miranda Green walks listeners through the climate challenges and solutions facing our natural world. Produced by LA Times Studios, the weekly series will feature interviews with Los Angeles Times reporters, state officials, business leaders and scientific experts discussing the latest news and trends impacting Californians and the country.

Wildfires in California are getting bigger and more destructive. Now, state regulators are turning to homeowners to take a new approach to fire prevention– starting with their gardens. Host Miranda Green talks with Los Angeles Times reporter Noah Haggerty about new “Zone Zero’ rules aimed at making homes and communities more resilient to flames and embers. She also speaks with Megafire Action founder and CEO Matt Weiner about California’s leadership on fire resiliency.

Join Boiling Point in its second season as independent investigative reporter Miranda Green walks listeners through the climate challenges and solutions facing our natural world. Produced by LA Times Studios, the weekly series will feature interviews with Los Angeles Times reporters, state officials, business leaders and scientific experts discussing the latest news and trends impacting Californians and the country.