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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...

Interview with Ray Cappo, singer from punk rock bands Youth of Today and Shelter and author of 2024 memoir "From Punk to Monk."...

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...

EUGENE, Ore., June 26, 2024 — The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed a lower court ruling that prevents Scott Timber from clearcutting old growth trees within Oregon’s Elliott State Forest. The decision will protect marbled murrelets, which are a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act....

Environmental, Labor, Health Groups Demand Disaster Relief Expansion to Address Climate Emergency...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 23, 2024 — The California Assembly passed a bill on Wednesday that would pave the way for more development across the state’s very high fire hazard severity zones. Assembly Bill 3150 would streamline large-scale developments by allowing developers to petition to redesignate risky wildfire zones to a lower classification....

ACLU Responds to Reintroduction of George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, Calls on Congress to Address Police Brutality...

DENVER, Colo., May 20, 2024 — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis will sign into law today a bill to reintroduce wolverines to the state and allocate $750,000 from the Species Conservation Trust Fund for the task. Wolverines are native to Colorado but they were wiped out in the state in the early 1900s by trapping and poisoning....

Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks With CUNY Students at Free Palestine Encampment (April 26th 9:41 PM)...

SAN XAVIER, Tohono O’odham Nation, May 9, 2024 — Students from schools on the Tohono O’odham Nation, as well as groups of elders and nearly 1,000 Tribal members, have voted to name the newest detected wild jaguar to enter the United States from Mexico. The name chosen is O:ṣhad Ñu:kudam, which means “Jaguar Protector” in the O’odham language. (O:ṣhad Ñu:kudam is pronounced OH-shahd NOO-KOO-dum.)...