Monterey County's homeless encampment plan, waiting on Moss Landing soil test results

KAZU | By Elena Neale-Sacks

Published January 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM PST

A blue sky day with sand dunes next to a beach. Smoke is drifting up from a fire in the background. The fire is faintly visible in the distance next to the two smoke stacks at the Moss Landing Power Plant — The battery plant fire was still visible from Moss Landing State Beach on the afternoon of Friday Jan. 17, 2025, almost 24 hours after it began.

In today's newscast, details on Monterey County's plan to address homeless encampments and Monterey County officials hope to make soil and water testing from the Vistra battery fire available by the end of the week.

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Elena Neale-Sacks

Elena is an Emmy award-winning researcher, reporter, and producer. Before joining KAZU, they worked as a podcast producer at The Oregonian. Their reporting and research has been featured on NPR, KQED, Netflix, Reveal, CalMatters, and more. Elena is an alum of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and UC Santa Cruz.

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