Offshore fracking moratorium off CA coast spurred by lawsuits
In one of the biggest environmental conflicts of interest in recent California history, a Big Oil lobbyist led a state panel to create so-called "marine protected areas" in Southern California ocean...
View ArticleReclamation Increases American River Flows to 1750 cfs
(Rancho Cordova) The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will increase flows from Nimbus Dam into the lower American River from 800 cfs. to 1750 cfs on Friday, February 5, over doubling the flows.The release is...
View ArticleAmerican River flows will rise to 3,000 cfs as Folsom Lake reaches 61% capacity
Sacramento – Anglers, rafters, kayakers and others who recreate on the Lower American River be advised — the Bureau of Reclamation will increase releases below Nimbus Dam into the lower American from...
View ArticleCalifornia Oil Lobby spent a record $22 million in 2015
The oil industry spent a record $22 million lobbying California legislators and officials last year, allowing it to largely determine which bills passed and which bills didn't pass through the...
View ArticleAxelrod: Scalia wanted Obama to nominate Elena Kagan
David Axelrod has a new post www.cnn.com/…In which he recounts sitting with Scalia at the WHCD and having Scalia make a recommendation on the replacement of Justice Souter."I have no illusions that...
View ArticleCrab and salmon fisheries threatened by a 'historic crisis'
Legislators, members of commercial fishing families, fishing group representatives and Brown administration officials testified about the dire situation that the salmon and crab fishery is in during...
View ArticleGroups Say Secretary Moniz Won't Protect Porter Ranch
The two groups leading the campaign to expose and stop the Porter Ranch gas leak in Los Angeles County said Tuesday that Ernest Moniz, the United States Secretary of Energy, “won’t do what’s needed to...
View ArticleSick, In-limbo Porter Ranch residents protest SoCalGas Appeal
Los Angeles — Porter Ranch area residents at 6 pm today, February 27, will hold a rally and pitch tents outside of the Mason Recreation Center in Mason Park to protest an appeal by SoCalGas of a...
View ArticleSacramento and Klamath River salmon abundance forecasts are down in 2016
Hundreds of people, including commercial fishermen, charter boat skippers and recreational anglers, packed a large room at the Sonoma County Water Agency offices in Santa Rosa on Wednesday, March 2, to...
View ArticleDelta Tunnels Opponents Say 'Fix LA & Santa Clara Valley First'
As local water infrastructure in the Santa Clara Valley and Los Angeles continues to leak and burst, opponents of Governor Jerry Brown’s Delta Tunnels today questioned the “wisdom” of state water...
View ArticleAnglers brace for restrictions in 2016 salmon season
The federal government last week released its data on the projections for the upcoming ocean and river salmon seasons in California and Southern Oregon — and it’s not looking good.Commercial and...
View ArticleAgribusiness Tycoon Resnick Is Advisor to Embattled UC Davis Chancellor Katehi
UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, made infamous throughout the world for her leadership role at the university when students were pepper sprayed by campus police during an Occupy protest in the fall...
View ArticleScientists Urge Feds to Continue Fracking Moratorium off CA Coast
As oil companies were fracking like crazy off the Southern California Coast, Catherine Reheis-Boyd, the President of the Western States Petroleum Association, chaired the privately-funded Marine Life...
View ArticleCommission to Vote on Postponing Scientific Assessments of Marine Reserves
The Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative, one of the most controversial environmental processes in California history, is known for its many broken promises and “inconvenient truths.”On April...
View ArticleMerle Haggard and the Politics of Salmon
During the battle to save the pristine salmon and steelhead habitat of Headwaters Forest in 1998, I got a phone call one morning from Mike Sherwood, then the California Director of the Sierra Club. He...
View ArticleThe story that disgraced UCD Chancellor Linda Katehi didn't want you to read
An investigative piece focusing on the relationship between Beverly Hills agribusiness tycoons Stewart and Lynda Resnick and the UC system that I wrote in March definitely got UC Davis Chancellor Linda...
View ArticleEye on Sacramento calls on Darrell Steinberg to fully disclose details of...
Eye on Sacramento, a group championing the adoption of “meaningful transparency and ethics reform” in the City of Sacramento, today called on Mayoral Candidate Darrell Steinberg, the former Senate...
View ArticleGun Type and Capacity Restrictions Exist, and they Work! If You're a Duck.
Early in the 20th Century, America faced a new and tricky issue that pitted market forces, government agencies, and individual citizens against one another. Migratory waterfowl populations across the...
View ArticleButte County Voters Pass Fracking Ban
The voters in Butte County, California approved Measure E, a ban on fracking, by an overwhelming 71 percent on June 7.Butte is the fourth California county to ban the environmentally destructive and...
View ArticleVentura Oil Spill Update: No Oiled Wildlife Reported
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW)'s Office of Spill Prevention and Response has confirmed that no oiled wildlife have been observed or reported — and no oil has reached the ocean or...
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