Breaking News: Western States Petroleum Association Spent Record $6.75...
The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), the largest and most powerful corporate lobbying group in Sacramento, set a new record for spending in one quarter when it spent an amazing...
View ArticleProject Censored #2 Story: Oil Industry Illegally Dumps Fracking Wastewater
Two of my articles are cited in the Project Censored #2 story, "Oil Industry Illegally Dumps Fracking Wastewater," in their book that has just come out. As I've often said, Big Oil and other corporate...
View ArticleHead oil regulator resigns amid latest Brown administration scandal
As Governor Jerry Brown reels from a series of scandals involving the capture of the regulatory apparatus in California under his administration, Brown announced the resignation of his head oil...
View ArticleNestlé: The Grinch Who Stole Our Water
The "Crunch Nestlé Alliance," the group that "shut down" the Nestlé Waters bottling plant in Sacramento in March 2015 and October 2014, will be protesting at the plant again on Friday, December 4, but...
View ArticleSalmon Fishermen, Consumer Groups Criticize FDA Approval of Frankenfish
The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on November 19 approved genetically engineered salmon, "Frankenfish," as being “safe” for human consumption, in spite of massive public opposition to the...
View ArticleUrge Your Senators to Protect SF Bay-Delta
HR 2898, an agribusiness-backed “drought relief” bill that would strip environmental protections for Central Valley salmon and steelhead and Delta smelt, is back for the third time, according to an...
View ArticleThe Late Fall Chinooks Of The Capital City
I’ve published a lot of stories lately about the challenges that salmon and other fish in California face in California, due to mismanagement by the state and federal governments during this record...
View ArticleOver 3,000 people march for climate justice in Oakland before Paris conference
Over 3,000 people from a coalition of over 100 labor, environmental, faith, and social justice groups held a march and rally Saturday, November 21, 2015 to demand a legally binding global agreement to...
View ArticleTroy Fletcher, Yurok Tribe's Visionary Leader, Passes Away
Troy Fletcher, a visionary leader of the Yurok Tribe, passed away suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 53 on the evening of Friday, November 20. I first met Troy nearly 20 years ago at a Fish and...
View ArticleIndigenous leaders slam Jerry Brown, UN for backing potentially genocidal...
At the end of his keynote address at the World Climate Summit in Paris on Tuesday, December 8, Indigenous leaders heckled Governor Jerry Brown, challenging him on his support of controversial carbon...
View ArticleDrought legislation could threaten the very existence of salmon and other...
Urge Senator Boxer To Protect SF Bay-Delta From HR 2898 HR 2898, an agribusiness-backed “drought relief” bill that would strip environmental protections for Central Valley salmon and steelhead and...
View ArticleDrought Bill Update: You Can't Save Delta by Pumping More Water
As Governor Jerry Brown resumes his campaign to build the salmon-killing Delta Tunnels after spending a week green washing his image in Paris at the Climate Summit, Congress is doing its best in...
View ArticleCA regulators want to conduct regional reviews of MPAs only once every decade
Rockfish and lingcod fishing for boat-based anglers along the Northern and Central California Coast will close on December 31. The fishing has been superb for anglers fishing from charter boats on...
View ArticleFeather River Hatchery finishes spawning salmon - Run is 7400 fish behind 2014
(Oroville) The Feather River Fish Hatchery staff has finished spawning fall-run Chinook salmon for this season and hasn’t started spawning steelhead yet. The facility has trapped approximately 16,349...
View ArticleProtesters Rally Against Western States Petroleum Association, Oil Caucus
On December 10, 350 Sacramento and Rootskeeper.org co-sponsored a Day of Action in Sacramento with the theme "How the Grinches Stole Climate Justice." The event, held on the last day of the Paris...
View ArticleA ten point plan to stop fracking and estuary/ocean destruction in 2016
In response to one of my articles in 2015 about offshore fracking, a reader asked, "What can we do here right now?" So here is my 2016 ten point plan to fight fracking and the destruction of our oceans...
View ArticleDelta Smelt and other fish species plummet to record low levels
Fish species ranging from endangered Delta Smelt to Striped Bass continued to plummet to record low population levels in 2015, according to the annual fall survey report released on December 18 by the...
View ArticleTrump On Privatizing Public Lands (and hunting)
This past week was the week of this annual thing called “The Shot Show” in Vegas. It’s a yearly convention of everything gun including lots of hunting. You can be excused for not knowing that, it’s not...
View ArticleFolsom Lake rises to 56% of capacity after reaching record low of 14% in 2015
Folsom Lake, the Sacramento metropolitan area’s backyard landlocked king salmon, rainbow trout and black bass fishery, reached its lowest-ever water level in November 2015 when it plunged down to only...
View ArticlePro-Tunnels Group Bars Journalist from Media Teleconference
It appears that Californians for Water Security, the “coalition” created by corporate agribusiness interests to promote the California Water Fix plan to build Governor Jerry Brown’s Delta Tunnels,...
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