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Santa Clara Valley Water District conditionally approves California WaterFix  The Santa Clara Valley Water District Board approved the resolution in spite of evidence provided by experts exposing the project’s flaws. Deirdre Des Jardins of California Water Research, who conducted an independent review of the science and engineering behind this project, told the board there have been “gross misrepresentations” about this project that should have give the District pause in supporting it.
Photo: Groundwater recharge pond behind the Santa Clara Valley Water District of... Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:46AM
Metropolitan Water District Approves Delta Tunnels Funding  Delta Tunnels opponents said they were disappointed with the vote, although not surprised. They vowed to keep fighting the project, one that they say will create no new water while raising water rates and causing great harm to imperiled Sacramento River Chinook salmon, Delta smelt and other fish species.
Photo: Jim Cox of the California Striped Bass Association, West Delta Chapter; Barbara Daly of North Delta Cares; Juliette Beck of the Sierra Club Yolano Group; and Adam Scow, California... Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 11:26AM
Rebecca Kaplan Wants To "protect the air" but is silent about corrupt exes running BAAQMD  Oakland City Council member Rebecca Kaplan says she wants to protect the bay area air from the fires but she refuses to call for the investigation, prosecution and jailing of Bay Area Air Quality Management District bosses who illegally destroyed pollution control documents and bullied and terminated district whistleblowers Michael Bachmann and Sarah Steele. Why is she helping cover-up these crooks running the BAAQMD.... Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 12:55PM 
Monarch butterflies disappearing from western North America New study reveals that western monarch decline is more severe than decline in East... Posted: Fri Oct 6, 2017 1:32AM 
Lawsuit Targets California's Dungeness Crab Fishery for Harming Endangered Whales, Sea Turtles  Wildlife Agency Sued Over Record-breaking Whale Entanglements... Posted: Fri Oct 6, 2017 1:03AM
Groups sue CDFW over permit to kill endangered salmon in Delta Tunnels  This suit is the first to challenge CDFW’s “take” permit for the tunnel operations. Representatives of the groups said the agency “improperly authorized” the California Department Water Resources to “kill and harm” state-protected fish species, including Sacramento River winter-run and spring-run chinook salmon, longfin smelt and Delta smelt.
Ironically, the mission of the CDFW “is to manage California's diverse fish, wildlife, and plant resources, and the habitats upon which they depend,... Posted: Wed Oct 4, 2017 9:40AM
Big Oil defeats California bill to ban new offshore oil drilling  The Committee on Appropriations, chaired by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego, held the bill in suspension during their hearing on Friday, September 1.
Photo: Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson authored Senate Bill 188. Photo courtesy of her office.... Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 5:34PM
Westlands Water District Votes No on Delta Tunnels Project!  "Today is a very good day for California,” said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta, in a statement. “By rejecting California WaterFix, the Westlands Water District has dealt a blow to the project. There are many better solutions for creating a sustainable water supply in California.”... Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:15PM
CA Indian Water Commission, environmental groups challenge Delta Tunnels financing  "The California Indian Water Commission's involvement in this filing is about upholding traditional indigenous responsibilities to the lands and waters of California," said Don Hankins, CIWC President. "With this filing, we affirm our commitment to future generations through protection of the lands and waters of this state, and the associated organisms, which we also maintain obligations to."... Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 11:52AM
Time to hit ‘pause button’ on brain-harming pesticide, farmworker communities say  Frustrated residents of agricultural communities packed a Sacramento hearing room Friday to urge the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to order an immediate suspension of chlorpyrifos while the state’s potentially lengthy scientific review takes place.... Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 3:19PM
Capture of BAAQMD, Corrupt Executives & Workplace Bullying and Terminations  At a report on the crisis at the Bay Area Air Quaility Management District, panelists including Dr. Larry Rose former Cal-OSHA Medical Director reported that the district refuses to properly monitor the refineries of pollution discharges and also retaliates against engineers who question Chevron and the other polluters measurement of pollution. The agency executives who act as shills for the refinery bosses have bullied, harassed and terminated two whistleblowers Michael Bachmann and Sarah St... Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 9:10AM
A Chicken in Every Pot and a Cell Tower on Every Garage  A bill is speeding through the California legislature that would allow telecom companies to saturate our residential neighborhoods with toxic radiation from 50,000 new-generation cell towers. There would be virtually zero government control and oversight. This article explains why this is happening, what the alternative is, and what we can do to stop it. The final hurdle, a vote by the full CA Assembly, will happen early this week.... Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 6:27AM
Oil Spill Highlights Risks of Phillips 66's Plan to Double Tanker Traffic in San Francisco Bay  SAN FRANCISCO, September 6, 2017 — An oil spill reported this week in San Pablo Bay near a Phillips 66 refinery is raising new questions about the company’s plans to dramatically increase the number of ships carrying oil though the bay to the facility. The oil apparently leaked from a pipeline on Monday, creating a 20-by-20-foot sheen on the bay.... Posted: Wed Sep 6, 2017 4:41PM
Save Berkeley's People's Park  Poor social services in Berkeley and other civic aberrant negligence have contributed to the perceived negation and associated slander towards People's Park. But beyond a decade's long insufficient response to human suffering and a lack of community concentration on the People's Park garden, and other aspects of the park that aren't directly linked to blight at all times, and often are, it is time to SAVE PEOPLE'S PARK!... Posted: Fri Sep 1, 2017 5:15PM
Winnemem Wintu, conservation groups sue to block Delta Tunnels  "The Twin Tunnels and its companion proposal to raise Shasta Dam by 18 feet would push the remaining salmon runs toward extinction and inundate our ancestral and sacred homeland along the McCloud River,” said Caleen Sisk, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe.... Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 9:28AM
Sonoma County Climate Change Activists Summit Climate change activists have their act together in Sonoma County, California!... Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 1:17AM
California Pursues New Health Protections on Chlorpyrifos  The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) announced today that both the California Department of Pesticide Regulations and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment are pursuing health protections on one of the most widely used agricultural pesticides in the nation, chlorpyrifos.... Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:45AM
Majority Report: Fun City vs. Surf City  A column focused on the current Dream Inn mini-mall and condo project proposal at the corner of West Cliff Drive and Bay Street in Santa Cruz.... Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 7:15PM
Air Testing Shows Unsafe Levels of Brain-Harming Pesticide in Kern County  Chlorpyrifos, a neurotoxic pesticide linked to IQ loss and autism, has been found in the air in Kern County in amounts far in excess of the level of concern established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for pregnant women, according to 2016 air monitoring data released Thursday by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR).... Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 5:39PM
Court Rules Monterey County's Federal Animal-killing Contract Violates Law  Decision Likely Halts Program That Kills Coyotes, Bobcats, Mountain Lions... Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 9:45AM |