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Conservation groups sue state and feds over Delta water standards 
"The situation is critical and we’re left with no alternative but the courts," said Bill Jennings, Executive Director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA). "And we’re prepared to sue them again and again and again. We don’t know if we can save these species, perhaps we can, but by god we will try!”...
Posted: Thu, Jun 4, 2015 7:30am PDT
California Endangered Species Act Protection Sought for Nearly Extinct Humboldt Marten 
ARCATA, Calif.— The Environmental Protection Information Center and the Center for Biological Diversity today petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to protect the Humboldt marten under the California Endangered Species Act. The Humboldt marten is a cat-sized carnivore related to minks and otters that lives in old-growth forests in Northern California and southern Oregon. Most of the marten’s forest habitat has been destroyed by logging, and the remaining martens in California lik...
Posted: Mon, Jun 1, 2015 11:01pm PDT
Governor Jerry Brown thinks "pipes" will be more popular than "tunnels" 
“Whether it’s a peripheral canal, twin tunnels, or now pipes, it’s the same old project," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta. "Changing the lipstick shade one puts on a pig, doesn’t make the pig any more attractive."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 1, 2015 6:46pm PDT
Gill Tract Protesters Disrupt Two Sprouts Supermarkets to Stop Development of Farmland For Immediate Release...
Posted: Sun, May 31, 2015 11:52am PDT
Hundreds will rally as oil spill fouls Santa Barbara "marine protected areas" 
Four "marine protected areas" created under the MLPA Initiative are now imperiled by the oil spill that started at Refugio State Beach on Tuesday, May 20, when an oil pipeline owned by the Plains All-American Pipeline Corporation ruptured, devastating over 9 miles of the Santa Barbara County Coast....
Posted: Fri, May 29, 2015 5:53pm PDT
Fracking Bohemians—more evidence Every mid-July for over 100 years, most of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world gather for a two week, off-the-record camp out at Bohemian Grove. This article describes some of the men who have influenced the development of hydrolic fracturing (fracking) and turned it in to another cash cow that is destroying the environment on behalf of the patriarchy....
Posted: Wed, May 27, 2015 1:58pm PDT
Santa Barbara disaster inevitable with Big Oil's capture of regulatory apparatus 
The oil spill that began off Refugio State Beach was inevitable, when you consider the capture of the regulatory apparatus by the oil industry in California. Until people challenge the power of Big Oil in California and the industry's control over the state and federal regulatory agencies, we will see more of the Refugio-type of oil spill disasters in the future.
Photo of oil on beach courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard....
Posted: Wed, May 27, 2015 8:51am PDT
Parade down the Embarcadero to say NO to Monsanto 
The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer announced just two months ago that glyphosate, a key ingredient in Monsanto's pesticide RoundUp, is probably carcinogenic to humans. The time was ripe to demand a ban on the herbicide with protests internationally on March 23....
Posted: Mon, May 25, 2015 3:20am PDT
Photo essay of protest against Nestlé in Sacramento May 20 
“As California's water supplies dry up, Nestlé continues to make millions selling bottled water and that’s outrageous!” explained Liz McDowell, campaigner for SumOfUs.org. “We’ve stood up to Nestlé exploiting natural resources for profit in the past everywhere from Pakistan to Canada, and now the global community is speaking out before California runs completely dry.”
Tim Molina of the Courage Campaign speaks at the protest at the Nestlé bottling plant in Sacramento. Photo by Dan Bacher...
Posted: Thu, May 21, 2015 8:27pm PDT
Protesters converge on Nestlé bottling plants in Sacramento and LA 
Tim Molina, Strategic Campaign Organizer for the California-based Courage Campaign, said to the crowd, "Today we are saying enough is enough. With people across California doing their part to conserve water -- it’s time that Nestlé did the right thing and put people over profits - by immediately halting their water bottling operations across the State."...
Posted: Thu, May 21, 2015 7:17pm PDT
Concerned Residents, Elected Officials Rally in Response to Refugio Beach Spill 
SANTA BARBARA, CA – Outraged over an oil pipeline burst that Tuesday spilled at least 105,000 gallons of oil into a nine-mile slick along the Pacific Coast near Santa Barbara, at least 150 community members joined non-profit and local elected officials for a rally and press conference today at Santa Barbara County Courthouse to express the urgent need to place a moratorium on fracking and phase out oil development in California. Photo: Santa Barbara County Community Members Urge Gov. Brown to...
Posted: Thu, May 21, 2015 5:40pm PDT
Pipeline Owner in Santa Barbara Oil Spill Has Had 175 Spill Incidents Since 2006 
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.— The company that owns the pipeline involved in Tuesday’s major oil spill in Santa Barbara has had 175 incidents (mostly oil spills) nationwide since 2006, including 11 in California, according to a Center for Biological Diversity analysis of federal documents....
Posted: Thu, May 21, 2015 5:30pm PDT
Big Oil Trashes the California Coast 
Preliminary reports indicated that the ruptured 24 inch pipeline in Goleta leaked an estimated 21,000 gallons of crude oil Tuesday. However, the pipeline company may have actually released as much as 105,000 gallons, with tens of thousands of gallons going into the ocean, according to the latest data from Plains All American.
Photo of oil on the beach courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard....
Posted: Thu, May 21, 2015 8:54am PDT
Santa Barbara oil spill highlights dangers of offshore fracking and drilling 
"The oil spill near Refugio State Beach is a stark reminder of the dangerous risks expanded oil drilling poses to Santa Barbara County’s environment and its residents’ quality of life," said Becca Claassen, Santa Barbara County Organizer of Food & Water Watch.
Photo of offshore oil rig courtesy of theecoreport.com....
Posted: Tue, May 19, 2015 9:03pm PDT
California Officials Won’t Test More Water Wells for Oil Waste SACRAMENTO, Calif.— After testing just nine water supply wells for contamination from illegal oil industry waste disposal operations, California regulators admitted today that they do not plan to do any additional state testing of water wells near protected aquifers tainted by illegal disposal wells....
Posted: Mon, May 18, 2015 5:30pm PDT
Referendum Suspends Santa Cruz County Ban on Medical Cannabis Cultivation 
Santa Cruz, California – May 16, 2015 – The first successful Santa Cruz County referendum in 13 years has suspended an ordinance adopted by the County Board of Supervisors to ban all commercial cannabis cultivation. The ban was adopted on April 14, 2015, and was to go into effect on May 15, 2015....
Posted: Mon, May 18, 2015 3:18pm PDT
CDFW celebrates "Endangered Species Day" as it hastens species extinction 
You just can't make this stuff up - a government agency like the California Department of Fish and Wildlife "celebrating" National Endangered Species Day when it appears to be doing everything it can to benefit agribusiness and other corporate interests at the expense of endangered species, along with a host of fish and wildlife species not formally listed under the federal and state Endangered Species Acts!...
Posted: Mon, May 18, 2015 10:49am PDT
Canal littering exacerbates drinking water from canals 
Recent decisions by Fresno Irrigation District are that "canal water [is] to be restricted to 90,000 acre-feet to recharge underground aquifers and to surface water treatment plants in Fresno and Clovis." (Fresno Bee, May 14th [29]) Canals conveying future potable water have severe implications when the canals are almost filthy enough to require wastewater treatment before being passed through the water treatment plant. This article talks about issues involving litter, herbicide use, and tox...
Posted: Sun, May 17, 2015 9:17am PDT
Broadcast Premier of Standing On Sacred Ground Series Begins May 17 
STANDING ON SACRED GROUND took nearly eight years to complete and focuses on eight threatened cultures—one fight. Using ancient wisdom and modern courage, indigenous communities around the world protect lands of spiritual and ecological significance for future generations.
This new series exposes governmental, industrial and consumer-related threats to indigenous peoples’ sacred landscapes around the world.
Fourteen years after In the Light of Reverence, which featured the late tribal...
Posted: Sat, May 16, 2015 6:53pm PDT
100 California Officials Ask Gov. Brown for Fracking Moratorium ANAHEIM, Calif.— More than 100 mayors, city council members and other local officials from dozens of communities want Gov. Jerry Brown to halt fracking to protect California’s water supply from contamination during a devastating drought....
Posted: Fri, May 15, 2015 7:27pm PDT
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