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HOLLISTER, Calif.— More than 100 groups (see PDF) called on the Bureau of Land Management today to maintain a de facto moratorium on new oil and gas lease sales on California's public lands while the Bureau studies fracking's threats to California....

The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) opposes the Bureau of Reclamation's plan to raise Shasta Dam....

"This project is a sham foisted once again upon the taxpayers of the United States to have them pay for the dam enlargement while the beneficiaries do not pay their share," said Tom Stokely of the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN). "The allocation of $654.9 million in costs on the public because of claimed fishery benefits is a hoax." Photo of Winnemem Wintu Tribe Idle No More Protest at Shasta Dam on September 21 by Dan Bacher....

How can the officials and staff overseeing the Orwellian-named Bay Delta "Conservation" Plan possibly build two massive tunnels to meet the "hallowed" co-equal goals of "water supply reliability" and "ecosystem restoration" if they can't even list an email address on their "more user friendly" website that actually works? Graphic of Jerry Brown courtesy of Red, Green and Blue....

Restore the Delta Executive Director, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, said, “Directors and public relations officials are conducting a tour with officials from the Metropolitan Water District in the Delta at taxpayer expense to sell the project to Southern California media, but they have managed to exclude all Delta community representatives from talking with these members of the media to learn the Delta perspective of the peripheral tunnel project." Photo of DWR officials trying to sell the m...

The goal of the 1865 Project is to compile primary source documentation of the salient contributions of people of African ancestry during the California Gold Rush and unique challenges of Slavery in California (1840 -1865) We provided the design, content and community participants for the Opening Ceremony for Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker's Tales of Slavery and Power. The entire experience provided a wonderful example of the duality of opposites in providing a basic authentic look at ...

BUTTONWILLOW – Local residents took their opposition to the proposed ‘Hydrogen Energy California’ (HECA) coal plant to the public hearings held on September 17 by the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The much-anticipated hearings are a follow up to the recent preliminary assessment on the coal plant that the CEC and the DOE jointly released. The 2,154 page assessment (see PDF) delivered a major blow to the project, highlighting “significant unresolve...

"This appointment is just more of the fox guarding the hen house," said Tom Stokely, Water Policy Analyst for the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN). "We know whose interests she will represent - and it's not the taxpayers of California." Photo of Clifton Court Forebay on the South Delta, the body of water created in 1969 that serves as the Mile Zero intake point of the California Aqueduct and feeds the Delta–Mendota Canal. Photo courtesy of the Department of Water Resources (DWR)....

“The tunnels would damage water quality, the environment, fish, and farming, and impose billions of dollars of tax increases on the public to mitigate that damage,” said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta. Photo of Governor Jerry Brown, accompanied by Natural Resources Secretary John Laird on the left and then Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on the right, at a press conference touting the alleged "benefits" of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDC)) to build t...

"This vote to allow fracking in California and exempt it from California's benchmark environmental law shows that our Assembly has thoroughly failed at protecting Californians," said Zack Malitz, campaign manager for CREDO, referring to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)....