Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm and Nell Newman, founder of Newman’s Own Organics and a noted raptor advocate, have an opinion piece in tomorrow’s San Francisco Chronicle demanding that the County of Alameda get serious about addressing the problem of bird kills at the Altamont Pass wind energy farm. It is estimated that somewhere [...]

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A new study from the Public Policy Institute of California shows that Californians support for environmental laws is holding strong. Thanks to the Gulf oil spill, there has been a 16-point increase in those who oppose offshore oil drilling, and nearly two-thirds of Californians support the state’s landmark greenhouse gas reduction law, AB 32. Despite [...]

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Proponents of Proposition 23, which would derail California’s landmark attempts to control greenhouse gas emissions, were successful in their attempt to change ballot description of their measure. But the tweaks to the wording don’t change the underlying purpose of this oil company-backed measure: to halt our progress toward an alternative energy future.
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Despite a well-funded ballot initiative launched by out-of-state oil companies to strike down California’s landmark climate change law, public support for the law is holding strong and steady, according to a new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California. Audubon California is a strong supporter of Assembly Bill 32.
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As the San Benito County Board of Supervisors begins to consider approval for a massive solar energy plant on the floor of Panoche Valley, representatives of Audubon California today expressed serious concerns about the potential such a project could have on sensitive birds and habitat. Audubon California has listed Panoche Valley as an Important Bird [...]

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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is scaling back its plans to test Owens Lake for potential solar power development.
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The Gulf Oil Spill is prompting “California legislators and conflicting interest groups” to resolve their differences and come together on alternative energy legislation that would reduce the state’s dependence on oil.
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Let’s just start calling this the oil company initiative, because that’s really what it is. Anyway, the Texas oil companies have succeeded in qualifying their initiative to suspend California’s groundbreaking climate change legislation. Their ability to do this was never really in question, once they threw their millions behind the effort. The con that they’re [...]

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The otherwise conservative National Academy of Science this week surprised people this week by making a strong statement that human-caused climate change poses an immediate threat to people today and for future generations, and that there is an urgent need to reduce global greenhouse gases. Audubon California has long considered climate change to the be [...]

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A thought-provoking article about alternative energy development in this month’s Outside Magazine argues that, given the threats posed by global greenhouse gases, environmentalists need to stop voicing opposition to large-scale alternative energy development. This is one of those articles that is certain to get a strong reaction. From Audubon California’s viewpoint, however, we can see [...]

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Opponents of California’s landmark climate change legislation filed signatures yesterday to qualify an intiative on the November ballot that would suspend Assembly Bill 32 until the state’s unemployment rate falls to a certain level. Largely backed by out-of-state oil companies, the effort seems to set the stage for a national referendum in California on efforts [...]

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Well, you have to hand it to Gov. Schwarzenegger. After supporting new leases for the Tranquillon Ridge off Santa Barbara for several years, he acknowledges that the Gulf oil spill has proven that offshore oil drilling presents a very real danger to the environment. He now opposes the plan. Here’s what he said:

“All of you [...]

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As one of the worst oil spills in our country’s history continues to unfold in the Gulf, the governor continued to press his misguided idea to grant new offshore oil drilling permits for the waters of Santa Barbara. Comical.
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While birding is a fantastic way to experience nature firsthand, but increasingly bird enthusiasts have found themselves questioning whether driving from vantage point to vantage point is actually counterproductive for the natural resources we hold in such high esteem. In other words, if you’re burning gas to watch birds, aren’t you just contributing to the [...]

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As oil from the destroyed Deepwater Horizon platform begins to hit Gulf Coast sands, one would have to assume that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is rethinking his recent proposal to grant new offshore oil drilling leases for the waters off Santa Barbara, and then use those revenues to fund California’s state parks. Now that the [...]

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