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California Bill Prioritizes Wildlife Connectivity in Regional Planning 
SACRAMENTO, Calif., February 19, 2025 — Assemblymember Nick Schultz (D-Burbank) introduced Assembly Bill 902 today that pushes regional planning and transportation agencies to prioritize wildlife connectivity and improve road safety in California....
Posted: Sat, Feb 22, 2025 12:38am PST
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Order to Undo Ocean Protections From Offshore Drilling 
ANCHORAGE, February 19, 2025 — Conservation groups today filed the first environmental lawsuit against the Trump administration to protect oceans from offshore drilling. One set of groups is challenging an illegal order by President Trump to revoke former President Biden’s withdrawal of vulnerable areas of the ocean from future oil-and-gas leasing. Another set is asking a court to reinstate a federal court ruling that invalidated an attempt by the first Trump administration to undo Obama-era ...
Posted: Sat, Feb 22, 2025 12:04am PST
HUD Nominee refuses to reject government-run detention camps for homeless people 
(WASHINGTON, D.C – February 5th) The only acceptable answer to whether homeless people should be forced into government-run detention camps is “no.” Yet even this very low bar was too high for Scott Turner, Donald Trump’s pick to lead HUD, in written responses to Senators. Moreover, Turner attacks the data-driven, cost-effective housing plus services approach to solving homelessness....
Posted: Wed, Feb 5, 2025 12:12pm PST
Trump Invokes Authoritarian Powers on Day One to Gut Environmental Protections WASHINGTON, January 20, 2025 — President Trump ordered federal agencies today to begin unlawfully gutting protections for the climate, clean air and water, and public lands. Following through on his threat to act like a dictator “on day one,” Trump also ordered a massive expansion of oil, gas and coal extraction from public lands and waters — actions that could lead to irreversible climate catastrophe if they go unchallenged....
Posted: Mon, Jan 20, 2025 2:27pm PST
FDA moves to eliminate carcinogenic Red 3 from foods 
Red 3 has been prohibited for use in cosmetics and topical drugs since 1990...
Posted: Fri, Jan 17, 2025 10:29pm PST
Orgs Working to Solve Homelessness Urge Senators to Vote “No” for Trump’s Pick for HUD Secretary (WASHINGTON, D.C – January 15th) Everybody needs a safe place to live. However, rising rents and government inaction keep pushing more people into homelessness. Nearly half of renters pay more than they can afford in rent, and one in four worries about imminently becoming homeless. Amid a worsening housing crisis, we need real leadership to ensure that HUD fulfills its mandate to help people afford housing. As we enter an administration that openly talks about rounding up homeless people and ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2025 10:11am PST
Why Rights for Nature? We can no longer accept, as theologian and cultural historian Thomas Berry said, that the natural world exists only to be used by humans for their own benefit and in unlimited ways. Berry also found it untenable that humans have been granted all rights, while other, non-human beings have no rights. ..“Everything has a right to be recognized and honored,” said Berry.“Trees have tree rights."...
Posted: Wed, Jan 8, 2025 3:51pm PST
Zapatistas 'Rebellion and Resistance' Celebrates Autonomy and Rights of Women 
Zapatistas 'Rebellion and Resistance' celebrates the long road of autonomy and self-governance, and the equality of women and men, at the gathering underway honoring 31 years of resistance in Chiapas....
Posted: Tue, Dec 31, 2024 4:32am PST
California Grants Waiver for Dangerous Santa Barbara Pipeline SANTA BARBARA, Calif., December 19, 2024 — A Texas-based oil company announced to investors today that the California Office of the State Fire Marshal has waived federally required anti-corrosion measures for the Las Flores pipeline system. The system has been shut down since May 2015, when a corroded pipeline ruptured and released about 450,000 gallons of oil near Refugio State Beach....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2024 7:09am PST
Federal Court Strikes Down Lax GMO Rules, Halts GE Crop Introductions Without USDA Oversight 
Court Ruling Holds 2020 Regulations Exempting Most GE Crops from Oversight Contradicted the Agency's Own Prior Conclusions and Are Unsupported by Science....
Posted: Tue, Dec 3, 2024 10:33am PST
Analysis: Industrial Animal Ag Incompatible With Global Climate Agreements 
COP 29 Fails to Address Food System Emissions, Country NDCs Still Have Opportunity...
Posted: Fri, Nov 22, 2024 11:45am PST
Civil Rights Orgs Warn Pomona College Unprecedented Suspensions of Students Are Unlawful 
Civil Rights Orgs Warn Pomona College Unprecedented Suspensions of Students Are Unlawful, ‘Punishes the Act of Protest Itself’...
Posted: Thu, Nov 14, 2024 9:35am PST
Advocates at COP29 Urge Biden Administration to Secure Climate Legacy BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 11, 2024 — Campaigners from U.S. and global climate advocacy organizations addressed Trump’s reelection, its impacts on the COP, and a climate action roadmap at a press conference on Monday. While Trump’s re-election is a blow to climate action, there is still much that the Biden administration and global partners can do to fight for a livable planet. Advocates offered the following remarks:...
Posted: Mon, Nov 11, 2024 7:58am PST
Gary Gach Interview - "Hafiz's Little Book of Life" (audio/mpeg 110.8MB) Interview with author and poet Gary Gach about his latest book "Hafiz's Little Book of Life."...
Posted: Sat, Nov 9, 2024 5:55pm PST
California legislature calls for more marine protected areas SACRAMENTO, Calif., September 1, 2024 – California’s legislature highlighted the importance of protecting the state’s ocean habitats on Saturday when it passed ACR 210. The resolution directs state agencies to strengthen and expand protections for California’s network of marine protected areas (MPAs). This legislation, which was sponsored by Environment California, Azul, NRDC and the Environmental Defense Center, aims to help California reach its goal of protecting 30% of state lands and wate...
Posted: Mon, Sep 2, 2024 12:11pm PDT
Remain in Light - Interview with Jerry Harrison on 2024 Tour with Adrian Belew (audio/mpeg 105.1MB) Interview with Talking Heads guitarist/keyboardist Jerry Harrison about recent Remain in Light tour with Adrian Belew...
Posted: Mon, Aug 26, 2024 10:41pm PDT
From Punk to Monk: Interview with Ray Cappo (Youth of Today & Shelter) (audio/mpeg 115.2MB) Interview with Ray Cappo, singer from punk rock bands Youth of Today and Shelter and author of 2024 memoir "From Punk to Monk."...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2024 10:07am PDT
Capitalism can’t overcome the laws of physics That humanity can dominate nature “is an illusion.” The laws of thermodynamics remain in place. “Consequently, a growth-centered capitalist economy finds itself trapped in futile attempts to completely decouple itself from nature — aiming for a 100% circular, service-oriented and zero-waste existence....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2024 3:46am PDT
Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis (audio/mpeg 100.1MB) Interview with Dave Maass, author of the new graphic novel "Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis" based on a suppressed opera written in 1943 by Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann, two prisoners at the Terezín Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The authors did not live to see their masterpiece performed. Dave Maass is also investigations director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This interview was originally broadcast on "Transformation Highway" with John Malkin on KZSC 88.1 FM / k...
Posted: Thu, Jul 4, 2024 6:56pm PDT
Lawsuit Challenges Rubber-Stamped Extensions for California Offshore Oil Leases 
Agencies Ignored Harms From Aging Infrastructure, Spill Risk...
Posted: Mon, Jul 1, 2024 9:52am PDT
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