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EDC Opposes Trump Administration’s Plan to Open up Santa Barbara Channel to New Oil Drilling Santa Barbara, CA , November 20, 2025 – Today, the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) announced its strong opposition to the U.S. Department of Interior’s newly released Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program (“the Draft Program”) that includes federal waters off the entire West Coast including fragile regions such as the Santa Barbara Channel....
Posted: Tue, Nov 25, 2025 10:32am PST
Court Rules Off-Road Vehicle Use at California’s Oceano Dunes Violates Endangered Species Act OCEANO, Calif., November 21, 2025 — In response to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, a federal court has ruled that the California Department of Parks and Recreation violated the Endangered Species Act by allowing motorized vehicle use that harms imperiled shorebirds at the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area....
Posted: Fri, Nov 21, 2025 11:13am PST
Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Brings Oil Spill Risks to U.S. Coasts Industry Giveaway of Public Waters Proposed During Climate Talks...
Posted: Fri, Nov 21, 2025 3:27am PST
Trump Moves to Dismantle Endangered Species Act WASHINGTON, November 19, 2025 — In a sweeping assault on the nation’s imperiled wildlife, the Trump administration today proposed a suite of regulations that would dismantle the Endangered Species Act and drive hundreds of species closer to extinction....
Posted: Thu, Nov 20, 2025 11:34am PST
Post-Growth Society - Concepts for the Future The “right” relationship between the state and the economy and between market and political processes is not as easy to define as some theories would have us believe. It needs to be rethought and renegotiated, especially for a post-growth society....
Posted: Sun, Nov 16, 2025 4:15am PST
Coca-Cola reports using nearly 8 billion pounds of plastic in 2024, 1.4 billion more than 2019 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
Santa Barbara County Casts Preliminary Vote Against Transferring Oil Pipeline Permits to Sable 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
There is a fierce urgency of now to act on climate in America, Ukraine, and the world- We must invest more in clean energy, not less in communities that need it the most. The climate crisis is a crisis we all must face. It’s a threat multiplier. When I served in the military and as a state senator, I took an oath to uphold the Constitution from threats foreign and domestic. The climate crisis is a threat abroad and at home. I continue, along with other fellow veterans, to abide by our oath.
For, we face a fierce urgency to act of now to mitigate the climate crisis....
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2025 10:02am PDT
Elected officials, union members and grass roots organizations stand up for offshore wind 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
Climate Collapse Camp: Beyond Dystopia We must strengthen protection against attacks from the right, and we must extend occupational safety to include protection against the consequences of climate change, such as heat. Given the fundamental inability of the capitalist economy to meet the needs of all, but at most to satisfy “solvent demand,” consideration is also being given to taking over the supply, initially in the event of a crisis...
Posted: Thu, Oct 9, 2025 4:50pm PDT
CA’s Hydrogen Hub Loses Federal Funding; Groups Respond 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
CA Residents, Advocates Launch Campaign; Demand No CO2 Pipelines Fairfield, September 9, 2025 – Today, Communities Against Carbon Transport & Injection (CACTI), officially launched to protect the Bay Area from the Montezuma Carbon Hub, 45-mile carbon dioxide pipeline and waste injection well that could transport CO2 from sources such as power plants and refineries via pipelines through the Bay Area – including underwater pipelines – and ultimately inject it underground near the Suisun Marsh....
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 10:01am PDT
California Caves to Oil Industry With Health, Environmental Rollbacks SACRAMENTO, Calif., September 13, 2025 — The California legislature today passed a bill that greenlights tens of thousands of new oil and gas drilling permits in Kern County over the next decade with no further environmental review. Senate Bill 237 passed as a last minute “gut and amend” measure at the end of the legislative session, truncating public participation. It was one of several bills that roll back environmental and health protections this session....
Posted: Sun, Sep 14, 2025 9:34am PDT
Offshore wind is key to climate resiliency in CA By diversifying our energy portfolio with offshore wind, a homegrown source of power, we reduce our reliance on volatile fossil fuel markets. This increased reliability also translates into fewer blackouts and Public Safety Power Shutoffs, which have become an increasingly unwelcome reality for many of us across the state....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2025 7:51am PDT
Apocalyptic Reversal of Agricultural-Marine Circulation Notoric Droughts and Smog Veils. A complete dryness out with fires comes to: Europe, the Americas, Africa, Australia, and Siberia. The "Great Red Monsoon Spot" in South and East Asia will temporarily experience many more catastrophic floods. All of this, perhaps by 2050. Earth's atmosphere “steals” moisture in an unusual climate phenomenon. Contact and circulation activity in the system of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is currently increasing. Situation is fueled by anthropogenic pollutan...
Posted: Mon, Sep 8, 2025 11:16am PDT
Trump Administration Moves to Kill National Forest Roadless Rule 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
House Committee Advances Bill To Keep Public In Dark About Pesticide Risks Appropriations bill rider would prevent EPA from improving warning labels on dangerous pesticides, as industry pushes to shield manufacturers from health-related lawsuits...
Posted: Wed, Jul 23, 2025 2:01pm PDT
"We are developing a sustainable economy" Our so-called civilized world is anything but sustainable, and little can be achieved with simple means. The global financial system is on the verge of collapse, agriculture is engaged in large-scale exploitation, and privatized transport and healthcare companies are beholden to their shareholders and profits. And the Greens still have to work on olive-green sustainability criteria for NATO....
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2025 3:57am PDT
Right to Water Climate change, social inequality, and industrial interests threaten the right to water. Without water, there is no life. But who actually decides how much of it people get? Who gets to live and who has to die? Corporations are making water scarce: through privatization, through its priority use for industrial purposes, through pollution and even poisoning...
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2025 1:22am PDT
Offshore wind will grow jobs, clean our air, mitigate climate change and meet state goals Reports show deploying 25 GW of OSW can create thousands of jobs, supply 15-20 percent of the state’s new clean energy, offer ratepayers affordable, reliable clean power, drive economies of scale, and generate enough competitively priced electricity for up to 25 million homes. OSW is a never-ending clean energy resource that blows even more at night, when solar energy can’t be collected. With battery storage, California can be powered day and night to meet our energy needs as OSW will easily ...
Posted: Mon, Jun 30, 2025 11:41am PDT