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Representatives Rahall and Miller sent a letter on July 18 to DOI’s Deputy Secretary Lynn Scarlett reiterating a request for "full accounting" of Interior official Julie MacDonald's role in the removal of the Sacramento Splittail, a native fish, from the endangered species list after the Department failed to respond to the lawmakers’ repeated requests. The Department of Interior responded to the latest letter today, indicating that it will reopen specific cases in which MacDonald had played ...

Representative Nick Rahall has invited Dick Cheney to testify in a July 31 oversight hearing on his apparent role in the 2002 Klamath River fish killl and other scientific and policy decisions at the U.S. Department of the Interior....

Here is Restore the Delta's press release regarding Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's ramping up of his campaign to destroy the California Delta by building the peripheral canal. Following the press release is Restore the Delta's "Delta Flows" newsletter that includes an urgent action alert. I urge everybody to RIGHT NOW call the Governor’s office at 916-445-2841 and ask for the date and time for the Governor’s press conference to be held this week in the Delta. If you actually acquire an ...

Time to recall the District 10 Supervisor Sophie Maxwell as she has with INTENT harmed our children in the Bayview Hunters Point. Article 31 of the San Francisco Health Code among others - clear defines the process and the elements that should be put in place to prevent and address harm that could result from adverse impacts linked to Parcel A. Sophie Maxwell has been cognizant of the fact but looked the others way and embraced greed and money to fill her private coffers....

In this era of water privatization we need alternatives to corporate water bottling and provide our communities with safe drinking water. Greywater guerillas and authors of "Dam Nation; dispatches from the Water Underground" can show us how!!...

Summary: AB 405(Montanez) Sponsored by California Safe Schools became effective January 1, 2006, and prohibited experimental pesticides, whose health effects are unknown in schools....

During a Congressional field hearing in Vallejo on July 2, Steve Thompson, Manager of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's California and Nevada Operations Office in Sacramento, could not tell Representative Mike Thompson whether scientists at the Department of Interior were pressured by the Bush administration to manipulate science because the matter was currently under investigation. Just as Dick Cheney engineered the Klamath Fish Kill of 2002 by disregarding science for political purposes,...

You may have heard of our new project, "The Renaissance Garden Project" from the media and word of mouth. The Garden Project started when U.C.S.C. students responded to a call for help that Renaissance High School (R.H.S.) students sent out about the lack of nutrition they were receiving at school; students felt unhealthy....

Converging on the Edge Bay Area Regional Permaculture Design Convergence Bike Tour, Sat, July 7th, 2007 10am-5pm, Meet at Frutivale BART Station & potluck and after party at local Permie Cooperative Household in North Oakland Permaculture Convergence, Sun, July 8th, 2007 Registration Opens 8am Program starts at 9am...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday issued an alert regarding bodily contact with toxic blue-green algae on Klamath River reservoirs. This is the third consecutive year that Copco and Iron Gate reservoirs have been found to have extremely high levels of the toxic algae since monitoring by the Karuk Tribe began in 2005....