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Agencies Cancel Plan to Frack Oil Wells, Build Pipelines in Los Padres National Forest
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif., April 15, 2024 — Two federal agencies have confirmed the cancellation of applications for permits proposed a decade ago to drill and frack eight new wells on federal public land in Los Padres National Forest. The announcement, made April 3, comes just weeks after California officials proposed a statewide ban on this extremely dangerous fossil fuel extraction technique....
Posted: Sat, Apr 20, 2024 6:05am PDT
REI Workers in Santa Cruz Vote to Unionize
On April 18, workers at the REI store in Santa Cruz voted 32-12 in favor of forming a union. The workers filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on March 14, at which time they announced their intent to join United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) Local 5. The Santa Cruz REI store is the second REI location in the Bay Area to unionize, and the tenth nationwide. REI Workers in Santa Cruz say they are unionizing for "fair pay, sustainable schedul...
Posted: Fri, Apr 19, 2024 12:55pm PDT
California Senate Declares ‘Year of the California Grizzly Bear’
2024 Marks Centennial of Last Sighting of State’s Official Animal...
Posted: Wed, Apr 10, 2024 9:57am PDT
California Resolution Calls for “Year of the California Grizzly Bear”
2024 Marks Centennial of State Animal Extirpation...
Posted: Fri, Mar 22, 2024 12:46pm PDT
Oʻahu Community Leaders File Petition to Protect Coalition Name From Developers
HONOLULU, March 14, 2024 — The Center for Biological Diversity and community leaders filed a petition this week with the Hawai‘i Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to protect their coalition’s original name from being hijacked by developers....
Posted: Fri, Mar 22, 2024 12:43pm PDT
Eastern Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Area In Mexico Drops Precipitously
MEXICO CITY, February 7, 2024 – The annual census of monarch numbers at the overwintering sites in central Mexico was released today by World Wildlife Fund-Mexico and partners. It revealed that in just one year, the presence of monarch butterflies in their Mexico wintering grounds dropped by more than half, from 2.2 hectares to 0.9 hectares....
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 1:34pm PST
U.S. Geological Survey Will Restore Annual Counts of About 400 Farm Pesticides
Pesticides Applied to Seeds to Remain Uncounted...
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 1:25pm PST
ExxonMobil Drops Court Bid to Truck Oil in Santa Barbara
LOS ANGELES, February 16, 2024 — ExxonMobil’s dangerous proposal to truck massive amounts of oil along California highways is dead after the company dropped its lawsuit challenging Santa Barbara County’s denial of the plan....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2024 9:31pm PST
Law Center Statement on 12% Increase in Homelessness
Point in Time results must drive housing investments, not despair...
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2023 11:57am PST
Pro-Palestine Student Group in Florida Sues University System to Prevent Deactivation
University of Florida’s Students for Justice in Palestine is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida, and Palestine Legal...
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2023 11:23am PST
Law Center Statement on UN Report Decrying Ongoing Human Rights Abuses Against Unhoused People
WASHINGTON, D.C. – (November 3, 2023) Today, the United Nations Human Rights Committee highlighted serious and ongoing patterns of human rights abuses — including those against people experiencing homelessness and poverty — in the Concluding Observations from its recent convening that investigated the United States’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2023 10:40am PST
DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida
Palestine Legal issued the following statement regarding DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida:...
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2023 2:03pm PDT
California Becomes First State to Ban “Excited Delirium” as a Cause of Death
Governor Newsom signs landmark bill following tireless community activism and PHR report on the pseudoscience of “excited delirium"...
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2023 9:06pm PDT
Conference on the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism launches new Institute
The newly-formed Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) will hold its inaugural bicoastal conference, Battling the “IHRA Definition”: Theory & Activism, on October 13-14. Through the lens of research on structural racism, state violence, and social justice movements, the conference will analyze political campaigns that seek to codify the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism, and efforts to oppose IHRA policies. This is the first research conference focusing on IHRA campaigns, which ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 6, 2023 9:37am PDT
Faris Sabbah is a Systematic Tyrant!!!
This superintendent is a systematic oppressor....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2023 7:08pm PDT
Court Upholds Denial of ExxonMobil’s Plan to Truck Oil in Santa Barbara, Restart Offshore Drilling
LOS ANGELES, September 27, 2023 — The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California today upheld Santa Barbara County’s denial of ExxonMobil’s proposal to transport oil by tanker trucks along hazardous California highways. The plan would have helped the company restart three drilling platforms off the Santa Barbara coast, shut down since the disastrous Refugio oil spill eight years ago....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2023 7:33am PDT
Southern Sea Otters to Retain Federal Protection
Oakland, Calif., September 19, 2023 – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced on Tuesday that southern sea otters will remain protected under the federal Endangered Species Act. The decision came after a 12-month review by the agency, initiated by a petition from the California Sea Urchin Commission and the Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara calling for the government to “delist” these otters....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2023 8:20am PDT
EPA Makes Pesticide Incident Reports Publicly Available for First Time
Data Details Serious Harms Caused by Pesticides...
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2023 7:16am PDT
The demographic makeup of the country’s voters continues to shift. That creates headwinds
Demographic change continued to chip away at the cornerstone of the Republican electoral coalition in 2022, a new analysis of Census data has found....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2023 7:03am PDT
Activist Leads Fight to Stop Harassment of Vehicular Residents
In an extensive and well-documented article on LookOut, activist Reggie Meisler published his research and activism to defend the rights of those in vehicles being harassed by police. Cops have been threatening and ticketing for signs not permitted by the Costal Commission....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2023 5:00pm PST