Lawsuit Filed Over Plans to Frack the Golden State
For literally about the hundredth time, we’re suing the Trump Administration over its attacks on the environment. This time around, we’re defending Californ...
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Bold Steps Toward Putting the Brakes on CA Oil Drilling
Oil drilling in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of South Los Angeles. Photo: NRDC Governor Newsom has been hinting for awhile now at plans to go where no...
CalEPA’s Opportunity to Jump-Start Progress Away from Oil
Photo by U.S. Bureau of Land Management Buried in the minutiae of California’s 2019 budget act was an item that many of us in the California environmental...
Pipeline Spill Cleanup Plans Deserve a Hard Look
Enbridge's ruptured pipeline that spilled into the Kalamazoo River. Photo courtesy of the NTSB If you had to pick the worst possible environmental...
Another Day, Another California Oily Mess
US Bureau of Land Management Earlier this month, thousands of gallons of crude oil started spouting out of the ground in Chevron’s Cymric oil field, creating a...
AB 936: The Path to California’s New Oil Spill Protections
California is now a leader in preparing for a nonfloating oil disaster. It is our fervent hope that the cleanup preparation measures required by AB 936 never be...