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Malibu residents oppose plans to consolidate PCB removal with new construction

From: Santa Monica Daily Press

“PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) released a press release Dec. 5 claiming SMMUSD’s proposed 5-year Polychlorinated Biphenyls…

TETRA TECH SAYS IT WILL PAY FOR INDEPENDENT REVIEW IN DATA FALSIFICATION SCANDAL

From: San Francisco Examiner

"Responding to mounting concerns by both federal agencies and community watchdog groups about the integrity of the company’s radiological testing and decontamination…

ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP CONTRACTOR SAYS HUNTERS POINT WORK WAS DONE BY THE BOOK

From: San Francisco Business Times

"The Pasadena-based corporation has been accused of fraud by the Navy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates,…

EPA LETTER REVEALS NAVY'S DOWNPLAY OF RADIOACTIVE SOIL IN SF'S BAYVIEW

From: ABC7News

"This week, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility published a letter to the Navy. In it, the EPA says they found 90 and 97 percent of the soil samples…

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK GETS NEW SUPERINTENDENT IN TRUMP SHUFFLE

From: SFGate

“The acting director of the National Park Service was shuffled out of his job Wednesday, reassigned to head Yosemite National Park while being replaced with a retired parks…


News Releases

CONSERVATION GROUPS CHALLENGE SHRINKING HABITAT FOR RARE PLANT ON ALGODONES DUNES

Contact: Ileene Anderson, Center for Biological Diversity, (323) 654-5943
Karen Schambach, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, (530) 333-1106
Elden Hughes, Sierra Club,…

PEIRSON’S MILK-VETCH FURTHER SQUASHED BY FEDS

Shrinking Habitat Is Fragmented for Rare Plant

BLM DROPS DESERT ROAD PLAN FOR FURNACE CREEK

California Desert Wilderness Protected from Ravages of Off-Road Vehicles

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT UNDERCUTS PARK SYSTEM FOR MOJAVE CROSS

Administration Argues Park Service Lacks Authority on Private Land within System

EPA SCIENTISTS CONDEMN AGENCY’S GREENHOUSE GAS WAIVER DENIAL

EPA Staff Decry Hypocrisy of Johnson’s Pledges of Scientific Rigor and Openness