Center for Biological Diversity

Dogwood logging on Gualala River stopped by FoGR and Center for Biological Diversity

Climate, Coastal Issues, News, Resources, Rights of Nature / July 18, 2020

Sonoma County should be the lead agency in this bad project. We still do not have an up to date tree ordinance. County keeps postponing…… Visit our website:    GualalaRiver.org Lawsuit Launched to Protect Endangered Wildlife in California Redwood Forest For Immediate Release Contact:Peter Galvin, Center for Biological Diversity, (707) 986-2600, pgalvin@biologicaldiversity.orgCharles Ivor, Friends of Gualala …

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Lawsuit Challenges Trump OK of Commercial Fishing in Atlantic Marine Monument

Climate, Coastal Issues, News, Public Lands, Resources, Rights of Nature / June 18, 2020

“The Trump administration has been trying to roll back protections of national monuments since early 2017 and open them up to mining, fossil fuel, commercial fishing and other extractive industries. Among the targets in that effort were the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument and the Pacific Remote Islands and Rose Atoll Marine National …

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Center for Biological Diversity: Don’t Let Trump’s Big Oil Pals Dredge San Francisco Bay

Climate, News, Resources / October 1, 2019

NO DIRTY CANADIAN TAR SAND OIL IN OUR PORTS!  Don’t Let Trump’s Big Oil Pals Dredge San Francisco Bay The Trump administration has proposed to dredge a deeper channel through the San Francisco Bay and Carquinez Strait to import more dirty crude oil to polluting refineries in the area. At a time when we need …

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Pipeline Shutdown Prevented 27 Million Tons of Carbon Pollution in California

Climate, Coastal Issues, Health, News, Resources / May 19, 2019

“Plains All American Pipeline, which a Santa Barbara jury found criminally liable for the failure of its severely corroded pipeline, has applied to build a new pipeline along the same route to bring ExxonMobil’s three offshore oil platforms back online. In the interim, ExxonMobil is also seeking to restart its platforms by trucking oil through California. The other four …

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Center for Biological Diversity: NO BORDER WALL

Climate, News, Resources, Rights of Nature, Social Equity / February 15, 2019

“Now Donald Trump wants a wall across the entire 2,000-mile border. Trump’s wall would harm border communities, perpetuate human suffering, destroy thousands of acres of habitat and halt the cross-border migration of dozens of animal species. In fact, as revealed in the Center’s 2017 report A Wall in the Wild, 93 threatened, endangered and candidate …

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New Study Confirms: Degenerative Food & Farming System Poses Mortal Threat

Climate, Community Rights/Rights of Nature, Health, News / February 2, 2019

One out of every two Americans will get cancer at least once in their lifetime. According to recent research, U.S. men born in 1960 have a lifetime cancer risk of 53.5 percent. For women, it’s 47.5 percent.   Seventy percent of U.S. drinking water is contaminated with Monsanto’s top-selling herbicide, Roundup, while 93 percent of consumers …

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