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This morning's article by Joe Becker and Barton Gellman in the Washington Post discloses how Dick Cheney engineered the Klamath Fish Kill of 2002, a move that inflicted irreparable harm on the lives of thousands of commercial fishermen, tribal fishermen and recreational anglers, as well as on the economy of Northern California and Oregon. While an angler will get cited for keeping a coho salmon or using a hook that isn't considered barbless enough, corrupt officials like Cheney and his un...

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : Firefighters in California suffer a setback as a wildfire jumps a village defence line, forcing hundreds to flee....

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : Federal officials will announce today whether or not a coalition of UC Berkeley-affiliated labs will capture a $125 million grant to fund a new biofuel lab....

2007 U.S. Food and Farm Policy can help California Black Farmers achieve basic access and equal opportunity. Nationwide there is a current of activity to mandate equal opportunity for socially disadvantaged farmers from California to Maine. Unique artificial barriers to equal access create the current U.S. Farm Bill policy that restricts minority participation with tax payer supported USDA administrative allocation. Minority farmers whom are primarily socially disadvantaged in most areas o...

John Beuttler, conservation director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, reviews some of the latest developments in the battle to save the Delta smelt and other fish on the California Delta....

Monday, June 25, 2007 : Berkeley was one of 13 cities named a Solar America City last week by the U.S. Department of Energy, which will award the city up to $200,000 for a new solar program....

For those of us living in our modern cities land is a foreign concept. Stories of land conjure romantic images of countrysides far from our crowded neighborhoods, images that seem irrelevant to our lives. Even though we inhabit a landscape smothered with buildings and concrete, the struggles for land fought by rural people hold many important lessons for us as we strive for control over our lives and communities. When we consider the landless state of most poor people the world round and h...

Friday, June 22, 2007 : U.S. warplanes dumped about 18 million gallons of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese government says this has left more than 3 million people disabled. We speak with two Vietnamese Agent Orange victims and their lawyers about how the toxin has affected their lives, and why they’re suing over three dozen U.S. chemical companies for manufacturing the toxin....

The Klamath River's juvenile salmon, currently migrating downriver, are in big trouble, spurring the Klamath Fish Health Assessment Team to increase its fish kill readiness alert to yellow. Here is the Klamath River News 6/22 from Regina Chichizola, the Klamath Riverkeeper....

Sacramento and Davis residents will hold an a supplemental open house at the Vector Board's annual open house at the Sacramento/Yolo Mosquito Vector Control district office in Elk Grove on Saturday, June 23....