Folks in the Central Valley may remember a massive selenium disaster at the Kesterson Reservoir back in the 1980s. Ever since, the state and federal government have been trying to get selenium discharges under control. The latest is that the federal government is poised to give farmers of 100,000 acres of farmland in Merced County a [...]

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Kip Lipper, who is as renowned inside the Capitol as he is anonymous outside, is responsible for some of the nation’s most groundbreaking environmental laws over the last 30 years. The L.A. Times has a fascinating feature on him today.
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Back when Audubon California was part of a coalition of groups fighting the Orange County toll road, perhaps no member of that coalition was more effective than the surf community. Now here are the surfers fighting down new septic tanks in Malibu. It would be great if we could find ways to work with the [...]

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San Jose is considering banning the use of plastic bags, which have contributed greatly to ocean pollution, and have been a particular danger to birds.
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Eight months ago, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted to ask state legislators to remove their ban on offshore oil drilling. But how things have changed since then. Today the board is expected to reverse that stance and return to its longtime opposition to any offshore oil drilling that was established after the [...]

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OK, so it’s not the prettiest river in the state, but the Los Angeles River is one of the potentially most important waterways in Southern California. With its shores long-ago cemented by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and covered with graffiti, its waters dry or polluted, the future has long seemed bleak for the [...]

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