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The lawsuit argued the lethal force used violated the 4th amendment...
Posted: Fri, Nov 14, 2025 2:25pm PST
Mamdani is the antidote to the corporate landlord dominance we see in cities across the US. He doesn’t just speak on behalf of rent-stabilized tenants; he is one....
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2025 7:41am PST
Bureau of Land Management issues environmental study to authorize ConocoPhillips’ winter drilling and seismic projects in Teshekpuk Lake and Colville River Special Areas...
Posted: Tue, Nov 11, 2025 12:48pm PST
Company increases plastic use by 4.6% in just one year, coinciding with abandonment of plastic packaging reduction targets...
Posted: Mon, Nov 10, 2025 3:58pm PST
Supermajority of Starbucks Workers United Baristas Vote to Authorize Unfair Labor Practice Strike Ahead of Holiday Season...
Posted: Thu, Nov 6, 2025 10:17am PST
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., November 4, 2025 — The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors today voted 4-1 to prepare written findings to support denying transferring permits from ExxonMobil to Sable Offshore Corp. for an embattled onshore pipeline system that caused one of California’s worst oil spills. The board will hold a final vote on Dec. 16....
Posted: Wed, Nov 5, 2025 10:11am PST
An advocate for the National Homelessness Law Center warned that the 1,300-bed facility could be a “pilot” to put homeless people into similar conditions to Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz.”...
Posted: Wed, Oct 29, 2025 3:19pm PDT
All Other Sectors Would Need to Increase CO2 Emissions Cuts by 60%...
Posted: Wed, Oct 29, 2025 9:55am PDT
Despite the federal government pulling support for offshore wind nationally in favor of fossil fuels, many elected officials from the communities that are a part of the offshore buildouts continue to work towards what they see as its eventuality. Elected Officials to Protect America (E.O.P.A.) hosted a gathering with elected officials, unions, and grassroots organizations at the IBEW Local 639 Union Hall in San Luis Obispo. The event, on October 6, 2025, featured experts speaking on offshore ...
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2025 9:53am PDT
Santa Barbara, CA, October 8, 2025 – On Friday, October 3, the California Attorney General’s office filed a complaint against Sable Offshore Corp. alleging that the company repeatedly broke the law and discharged waste into streams, wetlands, and habitats while making unpermitted repairs to a broken oil pipeline on the California Coast....
Posted: Thu, Oct 9, 2025 1:52pm PDT
October 2, 2025 - This week, news broke that the Department of Energy cancelled funding for California’s proposed hydrogen hub, also known as ARCHES, among other projects....
Posted: Sun, Oct 5, 2025 2:06am PDT
Governor Newsom and State Agencies Should Insist on Full Environmental Review...
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 9:42am PDT
Ruling orders Santa Barbara County Supervisors to hold public hearing on permit transfer within 60 days...
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 9:26am PDT
Interview with Palestinian activist Saif Abukeshek participating in the 2025 Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza to deliver medicine and food and break the siege....
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2025 8:21pm PDT
August 28, 2025 - In the wake of the latest scandal he has perpetuated, National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to be fired by President Donald Trump or to resign....
Posted: Mon, Sep 1, 2025 3:36pm PDT
August 2025 - Following joint meetings in Chicago in July the UFCW and REI Co-op announced an agreement to establish a national bargaining structure to inform store-level collective bargaining agreements for the 11 unionized REI stores....
Posted: Mon, Sep 1, 2025 1:58pm PDT
WASHINGTON, August 27, 2025 — The Trump administration today proposed rescinding the nation’s landmark roadless rule. The move would open nearly 45 million acres of wild, unfragmented national forests to road construction, logging and other development....
Posted: Fri, Aug 29, 2025 8:59am PDT
PORTLAND, Ore., August 22, 2025 — A federal judge in Oregon today confirmed the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s legal duty to consider preventative measures — rather than a “spray first, ask questions later” approach — in its program allowing insecticide spraying to kill native grasshoppers and crickets on millions of acres in 17 western states....
Posted: Fri, Aug 22, 2025 5:38pm PDT
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif., August 20, 2025 — The Center for Biological Diversity and a neighborhood group sued the city of Twentynine Palms today for approving a luxury glamping resort near Joshua Tree National Park without thoroughly evaluating environmental harms....
Posted: Wed, Aug 20, 2025 8:40pm PDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif., August 13, 2025 — The California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously today to declare the Quino checkerspot butterfly a candidate species under the California Endangered Species Act, granting protections for the small butterfly as the state conducts further review....
Posted: Thu, Aug 14, 2025 10:33am PDT











