Researchers find heavy metals in sensitive habitat near Moss Landing battery fire site, a group of locals collect 125 samples for independent testing.

State regulators want more control over how battery storage facilities operate as SJSU researchers have found a large amount of heavy metals in the soil following the Moss Landing Power Plant fire.

Vistra responds to San Jose State's finding of a heavy metal spike in soils near their Moss Landing battery storage facility.

"Fortunately no one was hurt," said Board Chair Felipe Hernandez. "But this event has left a lot of questions in the minds of many and I think a lot of questions for our board as well as they make future decisions.

Monterey County supervisors on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in response to last week's major fire at the Vistra lithium battery plant in Moss Landing.

One of the world’s biggest battery plants is located in a tiny harbor town perched halfway between Santa Cruz and Monterey. A fire ignited January 16

Two Pensacolians went out Thursday to shoot photos of an eerie, empty Escambia Bay Bridge. They got something equally strange instead. Border Patrol agents were reportedly shot at by suspected cartel gunmen attempting to transport illegal migrants across the US-Mexican border.

Research scientists with San Jose State University’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) detected “unusually high concentrations of heavy-metal nanoparticles”