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As the oil and gas industry pumped nearly $6 million this election season into backing candidates in California legislative races to promote the fossil fuel industry agenda, four of the five big oil refiners in the state posted record profits while Californians are slammed at the pumps with price gouging.
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For the seventh September in a row, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has caught zero Delta smelt during its Fall Midwater Trawl Survey of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The last September when Delta smelt, an indicator species that demonstrates the relative health of the San Francisco
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RSS PUBLISHED TO * Dan Bacher TAGS * Environment * Interior * reclamation * Water * WestlandsWaterDistrict * HoopaValleyTribe * CentralValleyProject * CVPIA Share this article Year-Long Settlement Negotiations with Federal Government Fail —Tribe Returns to Court On October 31, the Hoopa Valley Tribe renewed a 2020 lawsuit it had filed against the Trump Administration for financial misconduct, environmental
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Los Angeles, CA—Chevron, infamous for causing environmental devastation from the Amazon to California, posted refining profits of $2.5 billion dollars in the third quarter of 2022. That almost doubles their haul from the same quarter the year before. Half of that amount came solely from US refining operations,
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Los Angeles, CA— PBF Energy, California’s third biggest oil refiner, made a whopping $2.26 billion off refining gasoline, tripling its profit in the third quarter after excluding special items, according to a press statement from Consumer Watchdog. “PBF reported making 78 cents per gallon refining crude oil into
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Sacramento, CA — On October 24, over eighty climate and environmental justice groups sent a letter calling on the California Governor and the California Air Resources Board Chair, Liane Randolph, to reject the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) for fossil fuel infrastructure like oil refineries, gas-fired power plants, and
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Los Angeles, CA — oil companies and right-wing think tanks claim that government regulations and the rise oil prices on the market are responsible for the $2.40 more per gallon that Californians are paying for gasoline than the rest of the nation, a just published report exposes the overt price
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Long Beach, CA – As offshore drilling continues off Southern California in a state portrayed as the “nation’s green leader” by the state’s politicians and media, an oil slick was discovered off the coast of Alamitas Beach in Long Beach near the four THUMS islands on Saturday, October 15.
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Sacramento, CA.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on October 6 proposed the listing of the San Francisco Bay-Delta distinct population segment of longfin smelt as an “endangered” species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The population of the once abundant species, a cousin of the endangered Delta smelt,
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VALLEJO, CA – With multiple oil refineries of the East Bay’s “Refinery Corridor” looming in the distance,” California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that will require 3,200-foot setbacks between oil and gas drilling and homes, schools and other sensitive receptors in California. The Governor signed the
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Here is the transcription of my 3 minute comment on the Delta Tunnel Draft Environmental Impact Statement that I made today in the virtual hearing held by the California Department of Water Resources. I’m a independent journalist that’s covered the fish, environmental justice and water issues for 40
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Despite the millions of dollars Big Oil spends on lobbying the California Legislature and contributing to legislators every year, the Senate late last night by a vote of 25 to 10, approved Senate Bill 1137 to create 3200-foot setbacks around new and reworked oil and gas wells after it had