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Students call on Port Commissioners to de-certify Environmental Report based on false information....
Posted: Fri, May 15, 2026 9:21am PDT
Events include Global Speakers, Festival, and March in Richmond...
Posted: Tue, May 12, 2026 2:44pm PDT
Border Wall Construction Could Sever Link Between Populations...
Posted: Thu, Apr 30, 2026 2:22pm PDT
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 17, 2026 — A Santa Barbara Superior Court judge today rejected Sable Offshore Corp.’s request to rescind a preliminary injunction prohibiting the restart of an oil pipeline system on the California coast until and unless specific conditions were met. The company restarted the pipeline in March, despite the injunction....
Posted: Sun, Apr 19, 2026 1:02pm PDT
The Gilroy community is rallying against a major Data Center in the Gilroy area....
Posted: Tue, Mar 31, 2026 10:46pm PDT
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2026 — The Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to put cancer warnings on pesticide products even when its own assessments have found a high risk of those products causing cancer, according to two new analyses released today by the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity....
Posted: Mon, Mar 30, 2026 2:41pm PDT
Sable Relies on Unprecedented Trump Order to Violate State, Federal Law...
Posted: Mon, Mar 16, 2026 11:55am PDT
SANTA BARBARA, CA, March 13, 2026 – In a move that experts say directly challenges the rule of law in the United States, the Trump administration today issued an order declaring that a start-up Texas oil company is exempt from any state law that conflicts with its plan to restart oil production on California’s Central Coast....
Posted: Sat, Mar 14, 2026 1:23pm PDT
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., February 27, 2026 — A Santa Barbara Superior Court today upheld its July preliminary injunction prohibiting the restart of an onshore oil pipeline system that ruptured in 2015 until certain conditions are met....
Posted: Mon, Mar 2, 2026 8:39am PST
Loggers beware!... We have spiked before and we will spike again until logging ends....
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2026 4:57pm PST
California groups are speaking out against moves by the Bureau of Land Management to open up new leases for oil and gas drilling in the Bakersfield area and on the Central Coast....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2026 2:42pm PST
Urgent action is needed to help stop the spread of toxic pesticides....
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2026 11:58am PST
The Port of Humboldt continues to plan to transform the port for offshore wind power by 2036 bolstered by the Trump administration loosing 5 offshore wind stoppage cases on the East Coast. Offshore wind energy is clean and means energy security....
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2026 7:40am PST
During the little-noticed open-to-the public virtual public hearing held by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on January 27-28, the NOAA reviewed the application for a license by U.S.-based Canadian company: The Metals Company USA, LLC (TMC) to conduct seabed mining exploration activities in the Pacific Oeacn’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). Almost everyone who spoke strongly against the TMC's application, arguing that it’ll violate international law and would cause i...
Posted: Tue, Feb 3, 2026 7:37am PST
Disasters Could Threaten Endangered Species With Extinction...
Posted: Tue, Jan 6, 2026 10:22am PST
PHOENIX, January 5, 2026 — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Wednesday in three related cases that seek to stop the Oak Flat land exchange in eastern Arizona while the lawsuits are pending....
Posted: Tue, Jan 6, 2026 10:17am PST
With a 3-1 vote, the Board rejected the company’s application to take over permits for onshore oil and gas facilities on the Gaviota Coast previously held by ExxonMobil...
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2025 10:52am PST
PITTSBURG, Calif., December 16, 2025 — The Center for Biological Diversity has reached an agreement with the city of Pittsburg and developers to include rooftop solar, electric vehicle infrastructure and a host of other environmental protection measures for a data center project....
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2025 10:13am PST
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
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