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In SF: Tribes and Environmental Groups Unified in Efforts to Protect Mountain Tribes and Environmental Groups Unified in Efforts to Protect Mountain,
Peaks Legal Battle Continues September 14, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 12:32pm PDT
BCA E-Alert September 2006 1. NEW AT BCA: August/September Newsletter Now Online; 2005 Annual Report Now Online
2. IN THE NEWS: Governor of California to Veto Universal Health Care; BCA Guide for
Newly Diagnosed Women Highlighted in AARP Magazine; Understanding Metastasis; High
Cost of Chemotherapy
3. TAKE ACTION: Register to Vote
4. SAVE THE DATE: Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers' Third Annual
Symposium, November 2-3, Berkeley, CA; San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December
14-17, San Anto...
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 12:30pm PDT
Help put the brakes on Nestle's Water Bottling Plant! For nearly three years, the people of McCloud, a small community situated at the foot of Mount Shasta in northern California, have kept a Nestle water bottling plant and distribution center at bay. But the Swiss-based food and beverage giant continues to push forward its plans for a 1-million square foot plant that would drain nearly two million gallons of water every day for less than 1/64 of a cent per gallon!...
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 11:12am PDT
SFPUC's Susan Leal leads SFPUC down the drain and in the cesspool Susan Leal the annointed Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) has led the SFPUC down the drain and into the cesspool. Today, we are worse off than we have ever been before. There is no Accountability and NO Transparency with this inept, igorant, and very arrogant woman leading the SFPUC into deeper trouble. In the end the tax payers are not getting their money's worth and Suan Leal has no clue what is happening under her very poor leadership....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 8:49am PDT
Confronting Climate Change and Overcoming Cynicism This Sunday 6 pm 
If you saw An Inconvenient Truth or have been keeping up with research on Climate Change, you know that we are headed for disaster in the not-so-distant future unless we change our rates of consumption and environmental destruction. If we are really going to make an honest effort at change (and our survival depends on it), then we need each other. Let's get together, talk, share our ideas and then support each other in taking action. CHILDREN WELCOME!
This is a Freeskool Quadruple Heade...
Posted: Wed, Sep 6, 2006 10:32pm PDT
Annual Misty Redwood Run in Oakland, dedicated to Gypsy The Misty Redwood Run is a 10 K fun run on a gorgeous trail through the towering redwoods in Redwood Regional Park in the east bay. It benefits the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters....
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 8:20pm PDT
Stewart Alexander: Liberty Quarry vs. Reason Stewart Alexander, the Peace and Freedom Party Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, says, “My campaign is concerned with two main issues; ending the Iraq War and recruiting for the war on Liberty Quarry.”...
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 9:42am PDT
Berkeley - University Plans to Cut Native Oak Grove 
UC Berkeley plans to destroy a native grove of Coast Live Oaks to build a sports training facility....
Posted: Sun, Sep 3, 2006 11:23pm PDT
Salmon Disaster Relief Bill in Danger of Sinking The Democratic Speaker of the Democratic CA Assembly is stonewalling a disaster relief bill that would send millions of dollars in no-interest loans and grants to commercial salmon fishermen who are at risk of losing their livelihoods due to government mismanagement of the Klamath River....
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 6:17pm PDT
help clean out air The San Joaquin Valley is one of the most polluted regions in America, often beating out Los Angeles as the air basin with the worst air quality. The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District Governing Board is in a prime position to clean the Valley’s air, thereby improving the health of the Valley's children, communities and economy.
But the Valley Air District Board needs broader representation and more expertise to develop and implement clean air plans....
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 1:32pm PDT
Legal Battle to Protect Arizona Sacred Site Coming to SF - Support Needed! 
On September 14, 2006 the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California will hear arguments in a legal battle that may decide the future of American Indian religious freedom and the ecological integrity of the San Francisco Peaks, a mountain located in Northern Arizona which is held sacred by over 13 Native American nations. Tribes and environmental groups have unified to halt Arizona Snowbowl’s development plans to expand the current ski area and use treated sewage effluent to ma...
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Contra Costa Delta Region Sprayed w/ Pesticides Within the last few weeks Contra Costa county near the Sacramento/San Joaquin delta was heavily sprayed with pyrethroid (PBO) pesticides. Cancer risks to humans aside, is large scale aerial pesticide spraying even an effective strategy for any purpose besides fattening the bank accounts of pesticide manufacturer CEOs???...
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 5:24pm PDT
Environmentalist Lovelock Speaks September 18 at CSUMB 
James Lovelock, scientist who first theorized that our planet is a biological organism, not merely a rock, lectures on Sept. 18 at California State University, Monterey Bay....
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 1:02pm PDT
SF Activist Wants To Make Electric Vehicles Everyone's New, Cool Car As gas prices rise and sea levels inch upward, kicking the nation's oil habit is becoming a priority. Now one group of activists wildly passionate about their electric vehicles (EVs) is fighting to put a plug on American autos. Brian Shott, an editor at New America Media, interviews one such advocate, who says a tiny, ugly EV changed his outlook on energy use and personal transit....
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 6:32am PDT
Speak up for environmental protections: don't let Bush co-opt cooperative conservation The Bush administration is holding a series of "listening sessions" across the country as it promotes its so-called "Cooperative Conservation" agenda....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 5:45pm PDT
Are those UCSC Biodiesel Buses really running on Biodiesel? The University of California, Santa Cruz, has been claiming that it runs all campus buses on biodiesel, yet is unable to provide any evidence of this long-standing claim. Is it engaged in "Greenwashing"?...
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 4:31pm PDT
SB1056 Update and Alert! Call by Thurs. AM! SB1056 passed the Assembly floor on Thursday, and is now moving to the Senate, where it must be voted on by this Thursday. Time is short, and we have every hope that we can win this in the Senate – please take some time to help!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 11:52am PDT
Forest defenders face repetitive SLAPPs in Humboldt County; Necessity defense possible... Forest defenders face trial after trial against mega-corporation Maxxam, AKA Charles Hurwitz, Jack Abramoff and the rest of the gang. Your support will be appreciated. Help fill the court room. Legal help in a case which may set a precedent by allowing protesters to mount a necessity defense which, for the first time, would be the real case....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 12:14am PDT
*EXTREMELY URGENT: Call State Senators TODAY to Oppose SB 1056!!!* Please call or email Senate President Don Perata's office right away and
ask him to oppose SB1056, even if amended.
Also call your State Senator at their Sacramento offices asap - ask them
to oppose SB1056!...
Posted: Mon, Aug 28, 2006 12:33pm PDT
Fish & Game plays dumb over new salamander species For the second time this year conservation groups have sued state agencies over a new species - the Scott Bar Salamander. In May they successfully, but temporarily, stopped the California Department of Forestry from approving logging plans in Scott Bar Salamander habitat without public review. The logging plans are now about to recive the go-ahead from regulators. This time the groups are challenging DFG’s policy of not protecting new species, especially new species that were previously lis...
Posted: Fri, Aug 25, 2006 7:33pm PDT
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