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State Acknowledges Wolves Returning to California, But Wavers on Protection SAN FRANCISCO— Documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity — which petitioned in February 2012 for state protection for gray wolves — show state wildlife officials and independent scientists agree that wolves are likely to return to California. The prediction has been reinforced over the past two weeks, when the wolf known as OR-7 made two more forays into the state from Oregon....
Posted: Tue, Dec 17, 2013 5:42pm PST
SSP&RIT Announces Arrival of the Spiritual Walkers of the Longest Walk 4 in Vallejo Vallejo, CA. - Sacred Sites Protection & Rights of Indigenous Tribes announces the arrival of the Spiritual Walkers of the Longest Walk 4 in Vallejo, California. The Longest Walk 4 will be at Sogorea Te, Native American Sacred Site located in Glen Cove on Wednesday, December 18, 2013; time to be announced....
Posted: Sun, Dec 15, 2013 8:04pm PST
Hot Spots: Radioactive San Francisco This story is important in and of itself, but also because it once again unearths the region’s role in the birth of the atomic age, and also highlights the radioactive legacy that continues to haunt us....
Posted: Thu, Dec 12, 2013 9:33pm PST
California's Lone Wolf Returns, Highlighting Need for Wolf Protection SAN FRANCISCO— California’s first confirmed wild wolf in nearly 90 years made a return trip to the Golden State for a brief visit this past weekend. According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the wolf called OR-7 crossed the border into Siskiyou County on Dec. 7, then returned to Oregon. His brief foray back into California supports the position advanced by wolf advocates that wolves from Oregon will continue to make their way into the state and that the species thus warrant...
Posted: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 3:47pm PST
Drakes Bay Oyster Company's En Banc Rehearing Petition Deserves Denial Following back-to-back losses in the Northern District of California and before a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Drakes Bay Oyster Company (DBOC) has submitted its final petition to the Ninth Circuit, hoping it can block the Secretary of Interior’s November 2012 decision to let the oyster operation’s forty-year lease in Drakes Estero expire on its own terms. DBOC’s appeal likely will, and should, fail....
Posted: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 8:36am PST
Water Board Ends Waiver That Allowed Unregulated Dumping of Toxic Drilling Muds RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.— A coalition of environmental and public-health groups scored an important victory today when a regional water board voted 4-1 to kill a waiver that for years has allowed oil companies to dump toxic drilling muds in California’s Central Valley without regulation or reporting....
Posted: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 11:36am PST
Court Rejects Plan to Clearcut California Redwoods for Vineyard SANTA ROSA, Calif.— Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Elliot Daum has rejected a plan to clearcut 154 acres of Northern California redwoods to plant vineyards for a winery. The proposal for an area in northwestern Sonoma County was challenged by the Sierra Club’s Redwood Chapter, the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Gualala River. In response, Judge Daum said the state’s “environmental impact report” for Artesa Winery’s forest-to-vineyard project violates the California Env...
Posted: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 11:33am PST
Drakes Bay Oyster Co. Supporters Vandalize Environmental Action Committee office For the second time this year, supporters of Drakes Bay Oyster Company have vandalized the Point Reyes Station office of the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin (EAC)....
Posted: Mon, Dec 2, 2013 11:59am PST
California Democratic Party’s Environmental Caucus Rejects Drakes Bay Oyster Co. In three key votes, the Environmental Caucus overwhelmingly supported Drakes Estero Wilderness by 3 to 1 margin and rejected support of Drakes Bay Oyster Company....
Posted: Mon, Nov 25, 2013 8:40am PST
Tea Party Bill Would Eviscerate Endangered Species Act WASHINGTON— Tea Party senators introduced a bill this week that would effectively end the protection of most endangered species in the United States and gut some of the most important provisions of the Endangered Species Act. Senate Bill 1731, introduced by Tea Party Sens. Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Dean Heller, would end protections for most of the species that are currently protected by the Act and make it virtually impossible to protect new species under the law. It would also eliminate prote...
Posted: Sat, Nov 23, 2013 10:09am PST
Call for Submissions Fukushima Response Bay Area in collaboration with the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists poetry committee and the BFUU social justice committee is producing an anthology of poems about the ongoing disaster at Fukushima Daiichi....
Posted: Fri, Nov 22, 2013 4:34pm PST
Greenpeace update, Climate disaster walkout, Free Colin! #ARCTIC30 UPDATE - 29 granted bail, only Colin Russell will be detained for 90 days pending further investigation. Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo explains the recent developments to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!...
Posted: Fri, Nov 22, 2013 7:05am PST
9th Circuit Asks DOI to Respond to Drakes Bay Oyster Company's En Banc Petition The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has asked the United States government through the Department of the Interior (DOI) and National Park Service (NPS) whether the denial of an appeal by Drakes Bay Oyster Company (DBOC) for an injunction should be reheard en banc. DBOC's attorneys filed a petition for a rehearing en banc in October. The DOI/NPS have until December 2 to respond....
Posted: Wed, Nov 20, 2013 3:53pm PST
Tornado hits nuke facility: Operators dodging questions of what was damaged A spokesperson for a nuclear enrichment facility in Kentucky says a tornado hit the plant: people want specifics on what was damaged....
Posted: Tue, Nov 19, 2013 5:02pm PST
Ban smoking Palo Alto moved a step closer Monday night to outlawing smoking in all parts of the downtown and California Avenue business districts....
Posted: Tue, Nov 19, 2013 11:39am PST
Plastic-covered Hawaiian Island Moves Toward Possible Superfund Designation SAN FRANCISCO— In response to a petition submitted by the Center for Biological Diversity, the Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to take a historic first step toward classifying a tiny Hawaiian coral island, Tern Island, as a Superfund site because of hazards posed by plastic pollution. The Center’s petition requested that the agency conduct a preliminary assessment of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and a portion of the enormous Pacific Garbage Patch within U.S. waters....
Posted: Mon, Nov 18, 2013 12:37pm PST
Gov. Brown's Fracking Rules Even Fall Short of S.B. 4 Requirements SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Gov. Jerry Brown’s oil and gas officials today released draft state hydraulic fracturing regulations that fall far short of protecting California’s air, water, communities and climate from fracking, a dangerously polluting practice that involves blasting chemical-laden water into the earth to fracture rock formations....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2013 1:21pm PST
They destroy We suffer Statement on Yolanda’s Aftermath Capitalism is directly responsible for the cataclysmic environmental crisis facing the Philippines...
Posted: Wed, Nov 13, 2013 7:19pm PST
County Report on Water Transfers Offers Less Costly Solution than Proposed Desal Plant Rick Longinotti of Desal Alternatives issued a statement today praising a report submitted by John Ricker, County of Santa Cruz Water Resources Director, to Soquel Creek Water District. Ricker stated that water transfers between Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, San Lorenzo Valley, and the Soquel Creek District could get Soquel Creek Water District on the way to their goal of reducing groundwater pumping, and Santa Cruz could get water from neighboring districts during times of drought. The cost in ...
Posted: Mon, Nov 11, 2013 5:03pm PST
Russia's Vladimir Putin Releasing Greenpeace Activists to Protest Islands of Ocean Trash ! Greenpeace activists being held captive in Russia should be given their freedom in exchange for conducting future International protests against the world ignoring these already existing vast islands of polluted oceans ......
Posted: Mon, Nov 11, 2013 8:01am PST
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