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documentLawsuit Challenges Faulty Environmental Analysis for California’s First Carbon Capture Project
Oil Company’s Plan Threatens Community Health, Climate Goals
by Center for Biological Diversity
Oil Company’s Plan Threatens Community Health, Climate Goals...
Posted: Fri, Nov 22, 2024 11:53am PST
image"Significant and Unavoidable"
Scientists, Medical Professors, Students, Airport Workers and Environmentalists Beg to Differ
by Leon Kunstenaar
Scientists, Medical Professors, Students, Airport Workers and Environmentalists Beg to Differ...
Posted: Fri, Nov 22, 2024 11:23am PST
calendarShellmound 2 Shellmound Prayer Walk: Honoring the Legacy of Wounded Knee DeOcampo
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by Save the West Berkeley Shellmound
1900 4th St., Berkeley...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 29, 2024 10:00am PST
Posted: Fri, Nov 22, 2024 10:35am PST
textCommunities of Color More Likely to Drink PFAS-Contaminated Water in San Francisco Area by Jonathan Sharp
A study from Harvard University found a clear link between an increased PFAS contamination risk in communities of color compared to the rest of the population. The military bases, airports, and other facilities found at cities' peripheries discard significant amounts of PFAS in the environment, contaminating groundwater and eventually contaminating public and private wells. 30% of the San Francisco Bay population consists of Blacks, Hispanics, and other ethnic minorities and are more likely t...
Posted: Thu, Nov 21, 2024 7:16am PST
imageUC AFSCME3299 & UPTE CWA Workers Strike for Living Wages and Against Union Busting at UCSF
UCSF UPTE Workers Marched At The Campus
by Labor Video Project
AFSCME 3299 and UPTE CWA members went out unfair labor practices strike on November 20th and November 21st....
Posted: Wed, Nov 20, 2024 8:42pm PST
imageGovernor Issues Water Resilience Update, Citing 'Progress' on Delta Tunnel, Sites Dam
Delta map
by Dan Bacher
Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta, described the Delta Tunnel as a “pipe dream” that would drain the estuary....
Posted: Tue, Nov 19, 2024 8:30am PST
textBay-Delta Plan Update: Deputizing the fox to protect the chickens by Dan Bacher
“The update acknowledges there will be serious impacts to the Trinity, but proposes no mitigation measures other than annual reports from the Bureau of Reclamation,” said C-WIN senior water policy analyst Tom Stokely. "This is particularly frightening, given that the US Bureau of Reclamation will soon be run by people with no regard for the Trinity and the people who depend on it."...
Posted: Mon, Nov 18, 2024 12:36pm PST
imageMost of CA oil drilling permits in third quarter were for extreme extraction techniques
The Cymric Oilfield in Kern County.
by Dan Bacher
Since Governor Newson came to office in January 2019, a total of 16,719 total oil and gas drilling permits of all types have been approved by state regulators.  ...
Posted: Mon, Nov 18, 2024 8:52am PST
imageBay Area affordable housing projects and HUD assisted housing programs are at risk
Haunting Photo Of Mary Jesus Before She Jumped To Her Death From The Oakland Tribune Tower In 2004, After She Was Evicted From Her Housing!
by Lynda Carson
Haunting Photo Of Mary Jesus Before She Jumped To Her Death From The Oakland Tribune Tower In 2004, After She Was Evicted From Her Housing!...
Posted: Mon, Nov 18, 2024 2:41am PST
image"The Situation is All Under Control" UAL1992 DC to SFO Forced into an Emergency Landing
A UAL Flight 1992 from DC to SFO had an engine failure and was forced to have an emergency landing in Chicago where foam had to be used t...
by Labor Video Project
A UAL Flight 1992 from DC to SFO had an engine failure and was forced to have an emergency landing in Chicago where foam had to be used to cool the engine. These incidents are growing throughout the United States and an example of the collapse and failure of the US regulatory system....
Posted: Sun, Nov 17, 2024 7:57pm PST
imageRecord salmon run returns to Mokelumne River, while shockingly low numbers return to Sacramento
Regarding the record salmon run on the Mokelumne this year, Scott Artis, Executive Director of the Golden State Salmon Association (GSSA)...
by Dan Bacher
Regarding the record salmon run on the Mokelumne this year, Scott Artis, Executive Director of the Golden State Salmon Association (GSSA), stated, “This steps back to what we saw last year as well: that when we actually give fish the right water conditions or truck them past the Delta pumps, hot water and low flows, and give them a chance to survive, we see record returns despite all of the layers of bad salmon policy."...
Posted: Sun, Nov 17, 2024 5:08pm PST
image"Kayaktivists" Demand Fossil Free Future in Richmond Harbor
Kayaks sail with banners, flags and shouts that say “No Coal Coast to Coast,” “We’re Still Watching,” “Fossil Free Future for All,” “Newc...
by Leon Kunstenaar
Kayaks sail with banners, flags and shouts that say “No Coal Coast to Coast,” “We’re Still Watching,” “Fossil Free Future for All,” “Newcastle Next,” and “Just Transition Now.”...
Posted: Sun, Nov 17, 2024 12:45pm PST
imageUniversity of California Service and Patient Care Workers will STRIKE over Unfair Labor Practices
UC Service and Patient Care Workers Will Mount Statewide Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike, November 20th-21st
by AFSCME 3299
UC Service and Patient Care Workers Will Mount Statewide Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike, November 20th-21st...
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2024 5:30pm PST
imageTribes, environmental groups slam Delta Tunnel hearing process
Gary Mulcahy, Government Liaison for the Winnemem Wintu Tribe said, “As the Tribe has stated before, the Department of Water Resources at...
by Dan Bacher
Despite widespread opposition to the Delta Tunnel by Tribes, fishing groups, conservation NGOs, environmental justice advocates, family farmers, boating group, elected officials, the five Delta Counties and Southern California water ratepayers, the Newsom administration keeps moving forward with the environmentally destructive project....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2024 2:31pm PST
imageState and federal agencies cancel fall protections for endangered Delta Smelt
Photo of Delta Smelt courtesy of the USGS.
by Dan Bacher
Disparaged as a “little minnow” by agribusiness oligarchs and their political allies, the key role the Delta Smelt plays in the ecosystem can’t be overemphasized....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2024 7:39am PST
calendarThe People's Arms Embargo - No Weapons to Israel!
PEOPLE'S ARMS EMBARGO: Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, CA
Rally and Nonviolent Human Blockade of Travis Air Force Base, from where US W...
by Toby Blomé
PEOPLE'S ARMS EMBARGO: Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, CA Rally and Nonviolent Human Blockade of Travis Air Force Base, from where US Weapons are transported to Israel. Where: At All Entrance Gates; Main Gate/Hospital Gate, North Gate, and; Commercial Gate (South Gate) Map and Directions Here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10en9gB3b7nUFS31Z1Ew0A2zBfBEHwoOe/view?usp=sharing...
Event Date: Wed, Nov 20, 2024 6:30am PST
Posted: Thu, Nov 14, 2024 3:13pm PST
textOp-Ed: Empowering Bay Area Youth to Combat the Tobacco Crisis by Gwen Penalber & Tatiana Montalvo
Passionate Bay Area youth are mobilizing to protect future generations from the predatory practices of Big Tobacco. We are the voices critical to the protection of our communities from the Tobacco industry, as we emphasize the urgent need for health policy initiatives that prioritize our future over corporate interest....
Posted: Thu, Nov 14, 2024 2:19pm PST
imageAren't restoring the San Francisco Bay-Delta and Central Valley salmon California Values?
Newsom didn't include restoring the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, now in its biggest ever ecological crisis, and California salmon ...
by Dan Bacher
Newsom didn't include restoring the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, now in its biggest ever ecological crisis, and California salmon fisheries in his campaign to “safeguard California values.” Under his administration, no Delta smelt, once the most abundant fish in the estuary, have been found in the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fall Midwater Trawl Survey for the past six years....
Posted: Wed, Nov 13, 2024 3:23pm PST
imageA Polluter's Paradise: Newsom administration doubles down on dirty biogas in LCFS vote
Graphic by Food & Water Watch
by Dan Bacher
California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is the nation’s largest and most lucrative pollution trading scheme for factory farm biogas....
Posted: Wed, Nov 13, 2024 3:05pm PST
calendarRally to Fight Offshore Drilling - No Restart of the Santa Ynez Unit
Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco
by Various Environmental Orgs
Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 15, 2024 8:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Nov 13, 2024 10:03am PST
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