Shasta Salamanders More Endangered Than Once Thought 
Research Splits Animal Into Three Species, Accenting Need for Federal Protection...
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 12:57AM
Appeal Challenges Oil Drilling in California's Carrizo Plain National Monument 
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., April 20, 2018 ― Los Padres ForestWatch and the Center for Biological Diversity today appealed the Trump administration’s approval of a new oil well and pipeline in Carrizo Plain National Monument. It is the first well the Interior Department has approved in the monument since it was established in 2001....
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 12:47AM
Earth Day Santa Cruz Celebration Saturday April 21, 2018 
The Earth Day event was held at the San Lorenzo Park from 11am. To 4pm. and was sponsored by Ecology Action, The Good Times, New Leaf, Dignity Health, Green Waist, The City and County of Santa Cruz, along with others....
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 6:31PM
Assemblymember Frazier Says MWD's ‘Dishonesty’ Threatens to Destroy Delta 
Assemblymember Frazier said the Delta Tunnels project has "never been about sustainability but a foolhardy plan to overdraw the Delta to sell a limited and precious natural resource to the highest bidder....
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:55AM
Metropolitan Water District Votes to Support Twin Tunnels Project 
"Today the Met's directors voted to saddle their ratepayers with up to $50 per month charge in order to subsidize water to almond growers in the western San Joaquin Valley,” said John McManus, Executive Director of the Golden Gate Salmon Association (GGSA)....
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:48AM
Lawsuit Confronts Kern County Over Broken Promise to Protect Imperiled Hawks, Important Farmland Nearly $3 Million Set Aside for Conservation Instead Transferred to General Fund...
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:53PM
Amah Mutsun Tribal Chairman Speaks at United Nations to Call for Protection of Tribal Sacred Site from Surface Mining Proposal 
April 12, 2018 - Chairman Valentin Lopez of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band announced today that he will speak on the floor of the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, April 17th, during the 17th Session of the United Nation’s Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Chairman Lopez will be calling the world’s attention to the proposed sand and gravel mining proposal at Sargent Ranch in Gilroy, California Located on the southern border of Silicon Valley. The site, known to the Amah Mutsun as Jurist...
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:44PM
Restore the 42nd Avenue Community Cupboard 
A petition has been created calling on the the Capitola City Council to restore the 42nd Avenue Community Cupboard. To sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/capitola-city-council-restore-the-42nd-avenue-community-cupboard...
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:50AM
Science Supporters Rally in Oakland 
Photographers Mary DeShaw, Alfred Leung, Steve Disenhof, Chris Cassell, Charles Moehle and Deb Hoag. Top photo "Nerdy by Nature" by Alfred Leung....
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:14AM
March for Science in Oakland 2018 
March for Science Bay Area included a march around the Lake Merritt path, speakers, live music, plus a wide array of information booths and hands-on demonstrations, great weather and a kids area. Photos by Carol Thomas, David Hoag, Deb Hoag, and Alfred Leung. Top photo "Thinking Cap" by Carol Thomas....
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 10:08PM
May Meat Challenge This article is part of our May Meat Challenge campaign aimed at reducing greenhouse gas by encouraging people to evaluate their consumption of animal products. This article is well researched with support from local farmer groups including meat farmers....
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 4:23AM
The Struggle for Justice at SF Hunters Point Naval Shipyard & Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai 
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai has spend decades fighting to defend the residents of Hunters Point Bayview and also expose the systemic corruption by City, State and Federal officials who were covering up the systemic corruption of the Lennar development project....
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 2:34PM
'Governor Brown, Please Step Up': 750 Public Interest Groups Urge Halt to New Oil and Gas Projects in California 
SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2018 — More than 750 public interest groups from California and around the world kicked off a campaign today urging Governor Jerry Brown to stop the build-out of dirty fossil fuel infrastructure, keep oil and gas in the ground and take immediate action to protect those most vulnerable to climate change....
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 12:59PM
Records: Nearly 400 Violations at California Offshore Drilling Operations State Records Reveal Corroded Wellheads, Neglected Platforms, Failed Well Integrity Tests...
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2018 10:55AM
Metropolitan Water District reverses course on Delta Tunnels again 
"Whether one tunnel or two, Southern California residents will foot most of the bill for the tunnels," said Brenna Norton, Senior Organizer for Food & Water Watch....
Posted: Sat Apr 7, 2018 6:28AM
Farm to Fork Friday "A Taste of Africa" California State Capitol 
Farm to Fork Friday continues at the California State Capitol to expand Pan African opportunity throughout the Great State of California...
Posted: Tue Apr 3, 2018 12:26AM
Alameda P.D. Arrest Man For Refusing Microwave-Pulsing Meters on His Kids Bedroom Wall Christopher Rabe, a 39-year resident of Alameda and father of two was arrested on Thursday, March 29th at 10:30am after peacefully standing in the way of Alameda Municipal Power (AMP) meter installers outside his apartment complex on Pacific St.
Rabe was held in Oakland Jail for 10 hours, and released after posting bail. He is being charged with 498(B)(2) (theft by meter tampering) despite the fact that clearly his intent was to prevent the smart meter installation, and represent the othe...
Posted: Mon Apr 2, 2018 8:02PM
Monterey County Supervisors to Decide on Hames Valley Oil Drilling Permit to Drill Wells in New Area up for Review After Measure Z Passage...
Posted: Mon Apr 2, 2018 2:52PM
Board Urged to Halt Oil-waste Pits' Contamination of Kern County Groundwater FRESNO, Calif., April 2, 2018 — The Central Valley water board will meet April 5 and 6 in Fresno to decide whether to halt the dumping of oil-industry waste fluid into dozens of disposal pits that are contaminating groundwater in western Kern County....
Posted: Mon Apr 2, 2018 2:48PM
Environmental Study Comment Period Opens for East Meadow Development 
On March 27, the University of California Santa Cruz released the draft environmental impact report (EIR) for the controversial proposal to develop the East Meadow of campus, an area that has been traditionally kept preserved as an open space. The deceptively titled "Student Housing West" project is now proposed to spread over two sites: Heller Drive on the west side of campus, and Hagar Drive on the East. Members of the public have until May 11 to comment on the East Meadow development propo...
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 1:21PM