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UCSC Resource Centers Statement on Thirty Meter Telescope 
The UCSC Resource Centers stand in solidarity with the Native Hawaiian community in their opposition to the building of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawai’i. This 18-story telescope will destroy sacred lands and cause substantial impact to the ecosystems of the island overall....
Posted: Sun, Aug 18, 2019 6:22pm PDT
Salmon advocates slam Trump rules slashing Endangered Species Act protections 
"Here in California we're likely to see salmon, sturgeon, steelhead trout, wolves, wolverines, kit fox and many others all slide towards extinction as a result of today's action by the Trump White House,” said John McManus, Executive Director of the Golden Gate Salmon Association....
Posted: Tue, Aug 13, 2019 7:22am PDT
Tulare County Agrees to Curb Air Pollution From Industrial Dairies 
Livestock Produces 55 Percent of State’s Methane Emissions...
Posted: Fri, Aug 9, 2019 2:35pm PDT
Park Service Floats Plan to Shoot Native Elk at Point Reyes National Seashore POINT REYES, Calif., August 8, 2019 — The National Park Service released a draft plan today that calls for shooting native elk to allow for expanded cattle ranching and commercial agriculture at Point Reyes National Seashore. The plan would allow the killing of tule elk, damage to wildlife habitat, harm of endangered species, degradation of water quality and create new conflicts with other native wildlife species....
Posted: Fri, Aug 9, 2019 2:29pm PDT
Winnemem Wintu Chief Asks Delta Tunnel Amendment Negotiators: When Will Tribal Water Right 
“Our belief is that Mother Earth made the Delta the way it is because it is a fully functional and perfect system," said Caleen Sisk, Chief of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe. "By digging the Delta up, we don’t know how it will end up. You don’t want to ruin a perfect system for an imperfect project. You can’t negotiate a perfect system. Once we dig up the Delta, you can’t return it to its natural state."...
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2019 9:06am PDT
Court halts Westlands Water District's participation in Shasta Dam raise plan 
Attorney General Becerra filed the lawsuit on May 13, 2019 to block Westlands from taking an unlawful action to assist in the planning and construction of a project to raise the height of the Shasta Dam, a project that is strongly opposed by the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, fishing groups and environmental organizations....
Posted: Fri, Aug 2, 2019 4:33pm PDT
Legal Action Forces Trump Administration to Curb Killing of California Beavers 
SACRAMENTO, July 30, 2019 — The federal wildlife-killing program known as Wildlife Services has agreed to stop shooting and trapping California beavers on more than 11,000 miles of river and 4 million acres of land where the killing could hurt endangered wildlife....
Posted: Wed, Jul 31, 2019 2:30pm PDT
Global Climate Strike! Climate Emergency Action Week Sept. 20 - 27, 2019 
Events will be happening globally, as hosted by youth climate striker groups and other climate activist organizations...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 20, 2019 1:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2019 10:55am PDT
Newsom Tours Kern Co. Oil Spill as Locals Call for Heath & Safety Protections 
“While this incident occurred in an isolated area, other similar oil production-related incidents have occurred in proximity to Kern County communities,” said Juan Flores, a Kern County community organizer with the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment. “It is time that state leadership and decision-makers take action and pay attention to the gravity of such incidents....
Posted: Thu, Jul 25, 2019 10:29am PDT
Open letter on TMT to the UC Santa Cruz Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics 
We write to you today as colleagues at the University of California, Santa Cruz to express concern about recent events on the Mauna Kea summit with regards to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). We urge the astronomy community to recognize the broader historical context of this conflict, and to denounce the criminalization of the kia’i (protectors) on Mauna Kea. We urge the TMT collaboration and the government of Hawai’i to desist from further arresting or charging protector...
Posted: Thu, Jul 25, 2019 8:44am PDT
AB275 (Ramos) Continues to Enforce State Sponsored Genocide Against California Tribes 
MEDIA CONTACT: Morning Star Gali, California Indigenous Nations Alliance (CINA)
CAIndigenousNationsAlliance@gmail.com 916.996.6580
AB275 (RAMOS) CONTINUES TO ENFORCE
STATE SPONSORED GENOCIDE AGAINST CALIFORNIA TRIBES...
Posted: Tue, Jul 23, 2019 8:39am PDT
Chevron's Huge Kern County Spill Endangers Valley Residents, Highlights Agency's Capture 
“We have lost all faith in the ability of DOGGR to do its job of protecting Californians, and we call on the Governor to completely reform this corporate-captured agency,” said Linda Hutchins-Knowles, California Senior Organizer for Mothers Out Front. “Regulators should not be allowed to own stock in the very industry they’re supposed to regulate."...
Posted: Thu, Jul 18, 2019 7:28am PDT
Appeal Upheld in Challenge to Oil Drilling in California's Carrizo Plain National Monument 
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.― The California Bureau of Land Management has agreed with conservation groups that plans for a new oil well and pipeline in Carrizo Plain National Monument failed to comply with federal environmental laws. The July 12 decision, announced today, said the local BLM office must consider potential harm to California condors, other imperiled wildlife and the climate....
Posted: Tue, Jul 16, 2019 7:00pm PDT
Newsom Administration begins public process for Delta Tunnel 
Newsom’s support of one tunnel to divert water from the Delta to corporate agribusiness and Southern California water agencies is no surprise. Newsom received a total of $637,398 from agribusiness in his 2018 campaign for Governor, including $116,800 from Beverly Hills agribusiness billionaires Linda and Stewart Resnick, the owners of the Wonderful Company two of the strongest supporters of the Delta Tunnel and promoters of numerous attacks on environmental protections for salmon and other f...
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2019 12:04pm PDT
Governor Newsom orders firing of top oil regulator after fracking increases by 103% 
The announcement of Ken Harris' firing came several hours after two watchdog groups, Consumer Watchdog and the FracTracker Allliance, released a report revealing that eight DOGGR officials own stock in corporations they are responsible for regulating.
It also came after the many scores of articles I wrote and radio interviews I did documenting the expansion of oil and gas drilling and fracking and numerous conflicts of interests by oil and gas regulators in California under Governor Jerry...
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2019 10:17am PDT
California’s Biggest Secret? How Big Oil Has Expanded Drilling Under Brown & Newsom 
Consumer Watchdog and the FracTracker Alliance today released data showing a major increase in permits for new oil and gas wells this year under Governor Newsom. From January 1 to June 3, DOGGR approved 2,365 new oil and gas well permits and 191 fracking permits.
The data reveals that this year regulators have considerably increased the number of permits granted for drilling new wells (by 35.3%), well reworks (by 28.3%), and hydraulic fracturing (by 103.2%) as compared to the permitting r...
Posted: Thu, Jul 11, 2019 5:36am PDT
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s OK of California Logging That Will Destroy Big Trees, Condor Roosting Sites 
LOS ANGELES, July 10, 2019 ― Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today to halt a logging project in a roadless area of Los Padres National Forest that would destroy prime habitat for endangered California condors. Because of the project’s remote location, it also would fail to protect communities from wildfires as federal officials have claimed....
Posted: Wed, Jul 10, 2019 12:12pm PDT
Closer to Extinction: Spring Delta smelt surveys reveal record low numbers of fish 
“The outlook for the Delta smelt population remains grim after these lows. Despite good conditions in spring 2018 and 2019, the severely depressed number of adult spawners indicates a continuing weak potential for recovery,” said independent fisheries biologist Tom Cannon in his California Fisheries Blog on the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) website....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2019 9:41am PDT
Ban on Hunting With Lead Ammo to Go Into Effect in California 
SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 27, 2019 — On Monday California will become the first state to ban all lead ammunition for hunting — the culmination of years of efforts to phase out toxic lead ammunition in the environment....
Posted: Fri, Jun 28, 2019 1:40am PDT
Rare California Salamanders Move Closer to Endangered Species Act Protection 
Salamanders at Risk of Extinction From Plans to Raise Shasta Dam...
Posted: Fri, Jun 28, 2019 1:35am PDT
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