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Climate Strike: SF Bay Area Youth Strike in Oakland 
Young people show the way to avoid the apocalypse...
Posted: Tue, Jan 21, 2020 7:58pm PST
SF Treasure Island Conservation Corps Nightmare, Cover-up & Environmental Racism 
Workers at the California Conservation Corps Treasure Island training center talk about their contamination from radiation. Other residents of Treasure Island and Hunters Point connect their...
Posted: Sat, Jan 18, 2020 9:48am PST
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Plan to Frack, Drill 1 Million Acres of California Public Lands, Minerals 
LOS ANGELES, January 14, 2020 — Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today challenging the last step in the administration’s plan to allow oil drilling and fracking on more than 1 million acres of public lands and minerals in Central California....
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2020 8:20pm PST
Newsom Administration Officially Begins Delta Tunnel Planning with 'Notice of Preparation' 
“Newsom's water portfolio was announced only a week ago and already he is racing to build the one tunnel project,” said Regina Chichizola, co-director of Save California Salmon. “His stated commitment to building the proposed Sites Reservoir and water diversions, and a new massive tunnel are a slap in the face to the North state and salmon dependent people.”...
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2020 6:47pm PST
APTP to Lead 6th Annual March/Rally to Reclaim MLK (plus weekend events) 
Oscar Grant Plaza
14th Street and Broadway
Oakland...
Event Date: Mon, Jan 20, 2020 12:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 14, 2020 1:35pm PST
Thirty-Seven Groups Urge Newsom to Halt New Fossil Fuel Drilling, Close Aliso Canyon 
“The combined effects of wildfires, mudslides, power shut-offs and droughts leave no doubt that California is in a climate emergency,” said Food & Water Action State Director Alexandra Nagy in a statement. “The time for half-measures is long gone. Governor Newsom still has the opportunity to take courageous action before it’s too late. This means banning fracking, shutting down Aliso Canyon and moving the state rapidly off fossil fuels and onto clean, renewable energy.” ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 9, 2020 11:49am PST
Zero Delta Smelt Found in CDFW Fall Midwater Trawl Survey Two Years in a Row 
“Given the wet year we experienced in 2019, the numbers of Delta smelt, longfin smelt and splittail should have rebounded substantially, but instead it was another disastrous year for all three species,” said Bill Jennings, Executive Director/Chairman of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA).. “Also given the wet year, striped bass, American shad and threadfin shad should have rebounded more than they did. Clearly, the state and federal Delta pumping operations are sending De...
Posted: Thu, Jan 2, 2020 9:58pm PST
Court: Trump Administration Unlawfully OK’d Longline Fishing Off California 
OAKLAND, Calif., December 21, 2019 — A federal district court has ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service failed to adequately analyze threats to critically endangered leatherback sea turtles when it allowed longline fishing off California. The Trump administration violated the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act in failing to consider the best available science on impacts to leatherbacks....
Posted: Sat, Dec 21, 2019 6:37pm PST
Central Valley Water Board Approves Grasslands Water District Permit 
"Toxins in water impact fish, divide indigenous families from traditional foods, and can cause permanent learning disabilities in children," stated Sherri Norris, executive director of the California Indian Environmental Alliance. "Many of these toxins cannot be removed from water once it enters into the system. It’s imperative that we protect all of California’s water from these toxins."...
Posted: Fri, Dec 13, 2019 11:47pm PST
Trump Administration Gives Final OK to Drilling, Fracking in Central California 
New Document Breaks Moratorium, Sets Up Auction to Lease 1 Million Acres...
Posted: Thu, Dec 12, 2019 2:30pm PST
Tribal Members, Fishermen and Youth Get Trinity River Win at Hum. Sups meeting 
Humboldt County Reconsiders Support for the Sites Reservoir Project...
Posted: Tue, Dec 10, 2019 7:56pm PST
Palo Alto Youth Lead Local Protest during U.N. Climate Conference 
This year is the 25th meeting of the conference under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP25. The conference is being held December 2 through the 13th in Madrid. In Palo Alto, California on December 6th, youth activists led a Climate Strike, part of a coordinated international action timed to coincide with the U.N. Conference....
Posted: Sun, Dec 8, 2019 3:53am PST
SF Climate Strike at BlackRock and March to Senator Feinstein’s Office 
Photos: Leon Kunstenaar, Pro Bono Photo
Message of climate urgency delivered where most needed in day of world wide protests...
Posted: Sat, Dec 7, 2019 7:42am PST
Water Is Life: Graffiti painted in solidarity with water protectors fighting Line 3 
In solidarity with water protectors fighting to stop Line 3 on stolen Dakota land, we set out to redecorate the city; transforming their drab walls into canvas for our messages....
Posted: Fri, Dec 6, 2019 12:20am PST
Cultures Clash as Richmond Set to Consider Ban on Coal Shipments 
Photos: Leon Kunstenaar
City Council session ends past midnight without taking a vote...
Posted: Wed, Dec 4, 2019 2:27pm PST
Fishing and environmental groups sue Trump administration for violations of ESA 
The lawsuit was filed at a critical time for salmon, steelhead, Delta smelt and other ESA-listed species in the Central Valley rivers and San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary....
Posted: Mon, Dec 2, 2019 7:05pm PST
National Climate Strike: Santa Cruz Walkouts, Marches and Rally 
County Building, 701 Ocean St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Fri, Dec 6, 2019 9:00am PST
Posted: Sat, Nov 30, 2019 1:26pm PST
Extinction Rebellion and Women in Black In Black Friday Protests 
Photos: Leon Kunstenaar, Pro Bono Photo
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Not everybody went shopping...
Posted: Sat, Nov 30, 2019 10:46am PST
UC Berkeley Climate Strike: UC Green New Deal 
Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley, Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California 94720...
Event Date: Fri, Dec 6, 2019 10:00am PST
Posted: Mon, Nov 25, 2019 9:04am PST
Newsom freezes new fracking permits, but oil drilling permits outpace 2018 
The FracTracker Alliance and Consumer Watchdog unveiled a new website on November 19 to continually map and update the number of oil and gas wells permitted by the Newsom Administration: www.NewsomWellWatch.com.
“The pace of permitting overall is still on track to beat the total number of permits issued during Brown’s final year in office (2018). The number of drilling and rework permits issued in the first ten months of 2019 through November 4 total 4,049. In the same period of 2018, unde...
Posted: Sun, Nov 24, 2019 4:32pm PST
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