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If you believe in environmental justice, send a letter to the Senate Rules Committee urging a "NO" vote of Mike Sutton's confirmation as California Fish and Game Commissioner. He was one of three commissioners voting to ban members of the Pombo Tribe from sustainably harvesting abalone, seaweed and mussells off Stewarts Point as they have for hundreds of years. As a long-time employee of the Packard Foundation, Sutton has a serious conflict of interest in the racist, elitist and corrupt fast...

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Saturday, August 29th- 1251 Marian Way, Petaluma CA Sunday, August 30th- The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St., Petaluma CA...

A broad coalition of 23 fishing, public health, conservation, environmental justice and tribal organizations today unveiled a ground breaking report, "California Water Solutions Now," at a rally against the peripheral canal at the State Capitol, the final event of the Million Boat Float from Antioch to Sacramento....

Schwarzenegger Appoints New Commissioner Day Before MLPA Vote by Dan Bacher In an apparent attempt to "stack the deck" in a California Fish and Game Commission vote today over widely-disputed Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), Governor Arnold Scharzenegger appointed a new Commissioner, Donald Benninghoven, on Tuesday. Members of a broad coalition of grassroots environmentalists, fishermen, seaweed harvesters, Native Americans and North Coast elected officials believe that the decision to...

In yet another example of the Schwarzenegger administration's top-down approach to controlling California's coastal waters, an email soliciting nominations for the North Coast Science Advisory Team (SAT) gives locals barely two weeks to try to impact composition of the powerful body charged with providing scientific information on the proposed North Coast Marine Protected Area (MPA). North Coast ocean activists are protesting the August 14 deadline in a widely-criticized Marine Life Protectio...

A new landmark study published in the July 31 issue of Science magazine reveals that the California Current ecosystem has the lowest fishery exploitation rate of any place in the world examined by co-authors Ray Hilborn and Boris Worm and 19 other scientists....

Assemblymember Jared Huffman released the following statement yesterday. “In all the debate about the Delta, I want to make one fact clear at the outset: My Assembly Bill 39—in either its current form or the soon-to-be-released full form—does NOT authorize, "argue for" or "call for" construction of the Peripheral Canal," he said. Photo courtesy of Assemblymember Huffman's Office....

With the coast and ocean contributing 369,000 jobs and $22 billion to California's economy, per the National Ocean Economic Program’s 2004 figures, marine protection is a critical investment for our state. And it’s urgently needed: some sealife populations are in decline, and fishery revenues have dropped by half in the past twenty years. The Marine Life Protection Act is our opportunity to be a leader in conservation....

The Roadshow is a 1 1/2-hour event that kicks off with a climate justice puppet show, followed by presentations about climate change and the Copenhagen climate talks, a community organizer highlighting environmental and climate justice struggles against Chevron and how to get active in the regional Mobilization for Climate Justice. Each roadshow event includes two amazing presenters, a puppetshow and a “what we can do” section by a Mobilization for Climate Justice organizer from Rising Tide ...