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Ruptured Pipeline Spills Oil Along Santa Barbara’s Coast

Press ReleaseCalifornia
LOS ANGELES (May 19, 2015) — A pipeline burst along Santa Barbara’s coast today, spilling an estimated 21,000 gallons of toxic crude oil in Santa Barbara’s waters and creating a four-mile oil slick.

Re-Imagining Watts 50 Years After the Riots

Press ReleaseCalifornia
LOS ANGELES (May 19, 2015) — Fifty years after the Watts Uprising, a coalition of community groups today launched Watts Re:Imagined – a sustainable redevelopment vision for the South Los Angeles neighborhood. The plan draws on the region’s rich historical…

Dirty Dancing in the Big Empty

PerspectivesWest, United StatesRocky Kistner
A new documentary spotlights the sad plight of the greater sage grouse: They’re running out of dance floor.

Imagine fixing our crumbling infrastructure in ways that last. It can be done.

Expert BlogDoug Sims
We usually don't talk as a nation about infrastructure. It's best when it's invisible. Literally, it is the structure-beneath-the-structure that supports our lives. Your job supports your family, but infrastructure -- power, water, transportation as well as social infrastructure like…

Down with TPP

Latest NewsUnited StatesAlisa Opar
From fracking to tainted fish, how the Trans-Pacific Partnership could affect the West.

NRDC honors Senator Barbara Boxer as a Force for Nature

Press ReleaseCalifornia
SAN FRANCISCO (May 15, 2015) – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) will honor Senator Barbara Boxer tomorrow for her lifetime of trailblazing environmental achievements at the 15th “Forces for Nature” benefit. Her work will be celebrated at the Four…