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Statement From PETA: Death Toll Rises at Dangerous Fresno Chaffee Zoo For Immediate Release: October 15, 2015...
Posted: Sat, Oct 17, 2015 2:44am PDT
On Behalf of My Sister, Nicole Deane My Sister, #BlackLivesMatter, The Oakland Police, a Warrant and the Kern County District Attorney....
Posted: Wed, Oct 14, 2015 7:08am PDT
1 Million CA Students Attend School in 1-Mile Impact Zone for Derailing Oil Trains OAKLAND, Calif.— More than 1 million California children attend school within a one-mile evacuation zone of railroads used by oil trains, according to a new analysis (http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/oil_trains/methodology.html) by the Center for Biological Diversity. Oil trains have experienced a dramatic increase in explosions and derailments across the country in recent years....
Posted: Thu, Sep 3, 2015 4:53pm PDT
Thousands of L.A.-area Oil Wells Under State Investigation for Pollution Dangers LOS ANGELES— The Center for Biological Diversity today urged California officials to release results from an investigation into thousands of oil industry injection wells in the Los Angeles area that may be contaminating water and threatening public health....
Posted: Thu, Jul 23, 2015 2:58pm PDT
Court Order Sought to Force Disclosure of California Pesticide Spraying SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Public-health and environmental groups, along with the city of Berkeley, are seeking a court order on Friday to require that a California agency publicly disclose and analyze any pesticide spraying it conducts that poses risks to people, wildlife or the environment. The groups are asking a Sacramento court for a preliminary injunction to require that the California Department of Food and Agriculture follow state environmental laws when spraying harmful pesticides. This sum...
Posted: Thu, Jul 23, 2015 2:55pm PDT
ACLU Sues Over Failing Public Defense System in Fresno County The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project, and the law firm Paul Hastings LLP filed a lawsuit against Fresno County and the state of California, seeking an overhaul of the county’s deficient public defense system. Because public defenders do not receive the resources necessary to represent their clients, thousands of Fresno County residents are forced to navigate the criminal justice system without the adequate legal representation that ...
Posted: Wed, Jul 15, 2015 3:44pm PDT
State officials fail to take meaningful action on brain-harming pesticide After a decade of delay, both federal and state officials acknowledge the dangers of chlorpyrifos,
but neither has taken action to provide necessary protections for California communities....
Posted: Thu, Jul 2, 2015 10:20am PDT
Hearing on Mistreated Mother Pigs at State Fair Fight Continues for Illegally Confined Mother Pigs at California State Fair...
Posted: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 5:00pm PDT
Conditions Improve for Stockton Animals After Animal Legal Defense Fund Lawsuit STOCKTON — The national nonprofit Animal Legal Defense Fund and Stockton resident, Emily Ballus, have settled their lawsuit against the city of Stockton, California and Stockton Animal Services for violation of local and state laws. ALDF, Ms. Ballus, and others sued the city and shelter in March, 2014 citing an ongoing pattern of abuse and neglect within the shelter, and violations of the 1998 Hayden Act––a state law that mandates that shelters provide proper veterinary care by a licensed vet...
Posted: Fri, Jun 12, 2015 5:14pm PDT
Investigative Report: City of Fresno's Relationship with JD Home Rentals The 10:30 minute video at the link below is an investigative report about corruption, slumlords and business as usual in Fresno....
Posted: Fri, May 22, 2015 11:02am PDT
California Officials Won’t Test More Water Wells for Oil Waste SACRAMENTO, Calif.— After testing just nine water supply wells for contamination from illegal oil industry waste disposal operations, California regulators admitted today that they do not plan to do any additional state testing of water wells near protected aquifers tainted by illegal disposal wells....
Posted: Mon, May 18, 2015 5:30pm PDT
CA May Revise Backslides into Aggressive Prison Construction, Punting Population Reduction CA May Revise Backslides into Aggressive Prison Construction, Punting Durable Population Reduction...
Posted: Mon, May 18, 2015 5:22pm PDT
100 California Officials Ask Gov. Brown for Fracking Moratorium ANAHEIM, Calif.— More than 100 mayors, city council members and other local officials from dozens of communities want Gov. Jerry Brown to halt fracking to protect California’s water supply from contamination during a devastating drought....
Posted: Fri, May 15, 2015 7:27pm PDT
EPA Cites Bakersfield Oil Train Terminal for Clean Air Act Violations TAFT, Calif.— The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has cited the Bakersfield Crude Terminal for 10 violations of the Clean Air Act, declaring the California crude-by-rail facility a major air pollution source that should have been subjected to rigorous environmental review during the permitting process....
Posted: Mon, May 4, 2015 5:20pm PDT
NBC Bay Area’s Bay Area Revelations Series Returns With Rebels & Revolutions Second Chapter Untold Stories of the Bay Area’s History in Leading Political and Social Movements...
Posted: Wed, Apr 29, 2015 6:26pm PDT
CA Approves Plan Allowing Oil Companies to Continue Contaminating Underground Water SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Oil companies can continue dumping millions of gallons of waste fluid a day into scores of protected California aquifers under a plan approved today by the state’s Office of Administrative Law....
Posted: Mon, Apr 20, 2015 8:24pm PDT
Lawsuits Charge Police Agencies with Refusing to Disclose Information about StingRay Use San Francisco – The ACLU on March 10 filed lawsuits against the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department and the Anaheim Police Department, charging that the two agencies refuse to produce documents related to their use of StingRays....
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2015 12:34pm PDT
Cancer-causing Chemicals Found in Fracking Flowback From California Oil Wells SAN FRANCISCO— Flowback fluid from fracked oil wells in California commonly contains dangerous levels of cancer-causing chemicals, a new analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity has found....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 9:49pm PST
Students for Justice in Palestine at SJSU Condemn UC Davis Vandalism Students for Justice in Palestine at San Jose State University Condemn UC Davis Vandalism...
Posted: Mon, Feb 2, 2015 6:04pm PST
EPA Urged to Shut Down Oil Industry Wastewater Wells Threatening California Aquifers SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity today called on the Environmental Protection Agency to immediately shut down hundreds of injection wells that are illegally dumping oil industry wastewater into scores of California aquifers, including some that supply water for drinking and farming irrigation....
Posted: Mon, Feb 2, 2015 1:30pm PST
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