Plans to Privatize National Parks Outlined in Trump Adminstration Memo
Whitefish, MT. – A new memo from a Department of the Interior’s industry-ladened “Made in America” Outdoor Recreation Advisory Committee proposes recommendations to privatize America’s national parks,...
View ArticleNewsom appoints two top oil regulators - one a former Chevron staffer - to...
On October 12, Governor Gavin Newsom appointed David Shabazian as the new director of the Department of Conservation, and Uduak-Joe Ntuk — a former Chevron staffer — as the new division supervisor,...
View ArticleExtinction Rebellion Sacramento Organizes Funeral Procession, Die In and...
On October 17, Extinction Rebellion Sacramento joined the October International Rebellion when it held a funeral procession, eulogy and die-in at the North Steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento....
View ArticleSeptember trawl survey finds zero Delta smelt as feds set to release weaker...
The Delta smelt, once the most abundant fish in the entire Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, has come closer and closer to extinction in the wild in recent years.In the first month of the fall...
View ArticleBreaking: New Trump Administration Rules Will Boost Delta Water Exports,...
SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration, led by former Westlands Water District and oil industry lobbyist and current Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, on October 22 released a new set of...
View ArticlePG&E spends $876,445 on lobbying from Jan. 1 to June 30 - after spending $10...
The Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), again in the spotlight of the national and international news media because of its shutoffs of electricity to millions of Californians as fires now...
View ArticleIllegal Loggers Murder Indigenous Forest Guardian in Brazilian Amazon
Maranhão state, Brazil – On the morning of November 1, a group of illegal loggers in the Araribóia indigenous territory ambushed members of the Guajajara people's Forest Guardians, a volunteer land and...
View ArticleUpdate: PG&E spends $1.3 million on lobbying in third quarter as bankruptcy...
As bankruptcy proceedings for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company continued and the utility sought rate increases, the embattled utility increased its spending on lobbying in the third quarter of...
View ArticleGroups slam Trump administration's sweetheart water deal with Westlands Water...
Conservation, environmental justice and public interest groups today responded with outrage to an Associated Press report that Secretary David Bernhardt’s Interior Department is poised to award one of...
View ArticleWestern States Petroleum Association has spent $6.6 million lobbying CA...
Unlike many other oil and gas producing states including Texas, Colorado and Pennsylvania, supposedly “green” California has no health and safety zones around oil and gas drilling operations.For...
View ArticleHundreds pack hearing to protest Trump administration proposal to dredge San...
WSPA, Contra Costa County no longer listed as co-sponsors on ACOE website Hundreds of people packed a hearing in Pinole, California, to protest the US Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) plan to dredge San...
View ArticleFifty Organizations Urge Governor Newsom to Support Public Takeover of PG&E
Sacramento—As support for a public takeover of PG&E continues to build in California, 50 organizations, joined by Former PUC President Loretta Lynch, sent a letter to Gov. Newsom on November 14...
View ArticleBreaking: Governor Newsom Orders a Scientific Review of New Fracking Permits
SACRAMENTO – The Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources today announced a moratorium on cyclic high pressure steam injection in oil industry operations and an...
View ArticleBreaking: DWR Releases Draft EIR for long-term operations of State Water Project
The California Department of Water Resources has just released their draft Environmental Impact Report for the long term operations of the State Water Project (SWP). Here is the announcement from DWR,...
View ArticleNewsom plans to sue over Trump water plan, but DWR releases plan that would...
New state water plan would increase water exports by 373,000 acre feet per year on averageThe Gavin Newsom Administration today announced two separate but related actions that will have a big impact on...
View ArticleNewsom Freezes New Fracking Permits - But All Oil Drilling Permits Still...
Los Angeles, CA—On November 19, Governor Gavin Newsom froze the approval of new fracking permits as a scientific study of fracking is conducted, but the total number of permits approved under the...
View ArticleFishing and environmental groups sue Trump administration over violation of...
Lawsuit launched as zero Delta smelt found in CDFW survey for third month in a rowFishing and environmental groups today sued the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service...
View ArticleSave California Salmon - Testify for Clean Water Dec. 5: No Selenium in Our...
It is time to stand up for our drinking water and fish! After two decades of promises to cease toxic discharges of selenium and other contaminants into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the Bureau of...
View ArticleWater Board Approves Grasslands Permit Despite Testimony by Fishing, Tribal...
Rancho Cordova -- The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board today voted 4-1 to issue a 25-year permit to continue discharges of selenium and other toxins from commingled agricultural and...
View ArticleCA Fish and Game Commission will discuss Delta fishery management plan on...
The California Striped Bass Association (CSBA), the Nor-Cal Guides & Sportsmen’s Association (NCGASA), the NCGASA Delta Anglers Coalition and other groups are mobilizing people to attend the...
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