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Nature is our partner and the basis of our future survival, not a free good, external or sink. Building pipelines means abandoning a decent infrastructure. European trains do not derail all the time. They have invested in the infrastructure and a long horizon that saves money and prevents environmental degradation. Isn't Merkel so popular for lack of a real alternative> The question is Are people really happy or have they become a little fatalistic?...

Defenders of Wildlife, Friends of the Sea Otter, The Humane Society of the United States and The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Monterey Bay Aquarium, U.C. Davis Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center, and individual donor Dusty Nabor, are offering a $21,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for fatally shooting three threatened southern sea otters found at Asilomar Beach, near Monterey, Ca...

Sacramento, CA. – On February 11, as we learn more every day about the chemicals used in fracking that threaten our environment and health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a long-awaited guidance for regulating the use of diesel fuel in fracking fluid under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Investigations show that diesel fuel, known to be hazardous to human health, has been used in fracking operations in California....

PISMO BEACH, Calif.— As the California Coastal Commission meets today in Pismo Beach, activists with the Center for Biological Diversity will urge commissioners to halt offshore fracking to protect coastal communities and marine wildlife from fracking pollution....

San Francisco, CA - Audubon California on February 4 voiced strong opposition to a cynical legislative effort to take advantage of the ongoing drought to derail California water policy and environmental protections. House Resolution 3964, which is being rushed to the floor Wednesday without committee debate, would overturn years of negotiations over Central Valley water policy that have balanced the interests of communities, agriculture, and the environment....

PORTLAND, Ore.— Three conservation organizations secured a major victory on February 5 for Oregon’s coastal forests, reaching a settlement agreement with the state that cancels 28 timber sales in habitat for the threatened marbled murrelet on the Elliott, Clatsop and Tillamook state forests and improves future management practices to ensure the rare seabird is not harmed....

CHICAGO– On February 3 over a hundred local activists participated in a protest vigil at the Chicago State Department Office calling on President Obama to reject the controversial Keystone XL pipeline following the release of the State Department’s Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. The Chicago vigil was one out of 300 vigils attended by thousands of activists nationwide highlighting the fact that the Keystone XL pipeline will be a huge source of carbon pollution, clearly fail...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today Environment America Research & Policy Center joined residents living on the frontlines of fracking who recounted their stories of illness, water contamination, and damage to their livelihoods due to dirty drilling operations in a new booklet called Shalefield Stories. The new booklet was released today even as President Obama touted natural gas development in his State of the Union speech and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz asserted last week that the impacts of frackin...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Today the Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the Department of the Interior violated the law when it sold offshore oil and gas leases in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska. The decision stems from a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Alaska Native and conservation groups made up of: the Native Village of Point Hope, Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, Alaska Wilderness League, Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, National Audubon Society...