Protecting our environmental resources and promoting social justice
Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Nancy Case Shaffer in Santa Rosa has ruled in favor of local Sonoma Valley attorney Jerry Bernhaut’s lawsuit challenging Sonoma County’s Climate Action 2020 Plan. A lawyer with River Watch, a Sonoma County firm active in filing environmental challenges, Bernhaut’s suit argued that the county’s plan violated various provisions of …
Judge Rules Climate Action 2020 Plan Violates CEQA Read More »
It’s never about if, but when a spill will happen…… http://www.pressdemocrat.com/opinion/6955942-181/close-to-home-is-white Santa Rosa Press Democrat Santa Rosa, California Close to Home Is the White House trying to destroy the Sonoma-Mendocino coast? The Sonoma-Mendocino coastal regional economy suddenly finds itself the target of President Donald Trump as a result of his executive order on offshore drilling …
Climate change is not a hoax, it is very real to over 90{5fc40a96f14c4a6aa4c2a32569b0a57dcc67c0b31eb04c341474283f11b6cdd2} of the world’s scientists. Some communities are banning together to stop the destruction of the environment and protect the health of their community. This movement, CELDF, is moving across the nation rapidly as people speak up and take action to assert their rights over …
“Protection of the environment has yet to become a moral obligation or a way of life for all. Current environmental laws, premised on permitting degradation, are allowing growing harm to the environment. Climate change is now threatening to send the planet irreversibly past a biologic “tipping point,” with potentially catastrophic consequences for people, ecosystems and …
Community Bill of Rights to protect people and the environment Read More »
The Bay Area’s air district is considering a rule that could prevent increased Bay Area refining of dirty Canadian tar sands by Will Parrish In recent years, oil corporations have intensified their push to make the San Francisco Bay Area and other areas of the West Coast into international hubs for refining and shipping of …