Governor Asks Urban Users to Voluntarily Reduce Water Use As Nut Growers Suck...
Sejal Choksi-Chugh, Executive Director of the San Francisco Baykeeper, believes that “it’s nuts” to ask California’s urban water users to voluntarily reduce water use while allowing almond, walnut, and...
View ArticleAnother Major Oil Spill Hits the Southern California Coast!
Orange County, CA -- It was only inevitable that another oil massive spill would hit the California coast, as offshore oil drilling continues off Southern California and Big Oil continues to capture...
View ArticleCA Oil Permit Approvals Close to 10,000 Since 2019 As Oil Spill Fouls SoCal...
Today, Consumer Watchdog and Fractracker Alliance revealed in an alarming report that California oil and gas regulators have approved 9,728 oil drilling permits since Governor Gavin Newsom assumed...
View ArticleExtinction's Edge: Zero Delta smelt found in September 2021 during CDFW Fall...
For the fifth September in a row, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has caught zero Delta smelt in its Fall Midwater Trawl Survey (FMWT) throughout the Sacramento-San Joaquin River...
View ArticleEnvironmental Justice Advocates Respond to Oil Spill: End Neighborhood and...
(SACRAMENTO, CA) - On Thursday, the California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) and Voices in Solidarity against Oil in Neighborhoods (VISIÓN) urged lawmakers and the Newsom administration to...
View ArticleWestern States Petroleum Association launches lawsuit against 'defacto...
As a massive oil spill kills fish and birds off the Orange County coast, the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), the largest and most powerful corporate lobbying group in California, today...
View ArticleAging fossil fuel operations in wildlife habitat at Ballona Wetlands are a...
Los Angeles, CA — As a tragic oil release in Orange County has devastated shorelines, beaches, wetlands and near-shore ecosystems, Los Angeles wildlife advocates and climate activists are calling on...
View ArticleYurok Tribe urges support for plan to manage Trinity River in a 'more...
The Yurok Tribe, the largest Indian Tribe in California, is urging Yurok Citizens and Allies to voice their support for a plan to manage the Trinity River, the largest tributary of the Klamath River,...
View ArticleActivists urge CALDEM to reject fossil fuel and law enforcement money, will...
Activists from the youth-based Sunrise Movement throughout California will march from CalSTRS in West Sacramento to the State Capitol in Sacramento on Friday, Oct. 22 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m to demand...
View ArticleBreaking: California issues draft rule banning oil wells within 3200 feet of...
Wilmington— After years of grassroots organizing, protests and political pressure by environmental justice advocates, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced at a press conference today that the...
View ArticleThe majority of adult spring Chinook, not 'some adult fish,' died in Butte...
In a recent website post entitled “The Myths and Facts — Sacramento Valley Salmon,” (norcalwater.org/...) the Northern California Water Association (NCWA) attempts to minimize the impact of a big fish...
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California Public Utility Commission Votes to Increase Gas Storage at...
Los Angeles, CA – The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today approved a controversial oil and gas industry-backed proposal to increase the gas storage capacity at SoCalGas’ Aliso Canyon...
View ArticleTell Valley Water to Stop Investing in the Delta Tunnel!
If built, the Newsom Administration’s Delta Tunnel (Delta Conveyance) would be potentially the most environmentally destructive public works project in California history. The multi-billion dollar...
View ArticleCountdown to Extinction: Zero Delta Smelt Found in October Midwater Trawl...
Time is running out for the Delta smelt, once the most abundant fish in the entire Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.For the fourth October in a row, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has...
View ArticleAction Alert: Tell CA to Stop Rubber Stamping Extinction! Support Racial...
Action Alert from Save California Salmon: Tell California to Stop Rubber Stamping Extinction! Support Racial Equality for Salmon Tribes Now!Call in to the State Water Board meeting on Wednesday, Nov....
View ArticleFishery biologist Tom Cannon: Delta smelt are "likely virtually extinct in...
I have reported every year for over a decade on the results of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fall Midwater Trawl Survey.For the past three years, no Delta smelt, once the most...
View ArticleRemoval of four PacifiCorp dams on Klamath River slated to begin in early 2023
If all goes as planned, the removal of four PacifiCorp Dams on the Klamath River that have blocked salmon and steelhead migration for over 100 years will begin in early 2023, according to Klamath River...
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Members of Impacted Communities Will Stage Sacramento Protest Amid SoCalGas...
Sacramento, CA -- Two years after Governor Newsom sent a letter to California’s Public Utilities Commission urging the closure of SoCalGas’ Aliso Canyon gas storage site, environmental advocates and...
View ArticleCSPA wins settlement to remove phone cable containing 63 tons of lead from...
OAKLAND, CA - Anglers, divers and other residents of the Lake Tahoe Basin have reason to rejoice.Under a settlement agreement finalized on November 4 in federal court in Sacramento, AT&T’s PacBell...
View ArticleTribal Communities Organize To Stop Sites Reservoir, Provide Clean Water to...
Redding, CA - Tribal activists, drinking water advocates and commercial and subsistence fishers are asking the public to stand with them in the fight for both the Trinity and Sacramento River salmon...
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