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Stockton’s Water “Not for Auction”
Residents of Stockton, California, have demanded the right to vote on a multimillion-dollar proposal to contract out operation of the...
Dairy Air
Tulare County has approved a key permit for one of California’s new generation of massive dairy farms, whose storage of...
Drilling the Wilderness
Los Padres National Forest officials are set to decide by January whether to allow oil and gas drilling in roadless...
Hope for Renewables
A groundbreaking California law requires all investor-owned utilities to increase their renewable energy use by 1% per year, eventually to...
Medicine Lake
The US Department of the Interior is set to decide by November 1 whether to reverse a Clinton-era denial of...
PG&E’s “Jailbreak”
A little-noticed federal court ruling could mean that companies declaring bankruptcy can waive all state laws governing water quality, safety,...
Urban Ag Showdown
Student activists say they are ready to apply “political pressure,” including civil disobedience, to stop the University of California Berkeley...
The Last Stands
A little more than a year ago, “Remedy” — she uses a pseudonym to elude being served with a civil...
Life Among The Ruins
What happens when a catastrophe destroys your home? A fire, an earthquake, maybe even a war rips through your living...
Song of the Elderberries
Environmentalists often talk in terms of “stewardship,” “protection,” and “defense” as if we are guardians of a child. Certainly there...
The Spirit Lover
What I am going to tell you happened in Nicasio, on the old rancheria, where many of us lived after...
Stranger in a Strange Lake
At the visitors’ center at Clear Lake State Park, past the diorama of Pomo village life and the cutaway diagram...
