CALPIRG: The U.S. House Upheld Critical Pesticide Protections
Pro-pesticide provisions in the House Farm Bill would have done two dangerous things. First, they would have restricted states from establishing unique pesticide protections for their people and their environment….Thankfully, people from all corners of the country opposed these rollbacks and empowered a broad bipartisan coalition…
Santa Cruz Climate Action Network: Make Polluters Pay Update
May 19 - By A 5-0 Vote San Mateo county unanimously passed a resolution in support Of a California Polluters Pay Climate Supper Fund Act. San Mateo Residents, Led by Youth Advocates, attended the hearing to show support
Revelator: Dangerous Drinking: Is Bottled Water Really Safer Than Tap Water?
A whopping 88% of Americans say they consume bottled water, according to an industry survey released in 2024. In fact that year we drank an estimated 16.4 billion gallons of it — 47.1 gallons and a shocking average of about 340 individual bottles per person. (Beyond the billions of $s spent) there’s another cost to this practice: serious effects on our health…
Assemblymember Pellerin Introduces AB 1548 to establish the Monterey Bay Area Stewardship Authority
The Monterey Bay Area Stewardship Act (MBASA) would establish a regional funding and stewardship authority designed to unlock new resources for long-term stewardship of natural and working lands, strengthen water and climate resilience, and expand access to state, federal, and philanthropic funding across the tri-county region…
Jan Rosenow LinkedIn: How Electrified Are the Top 20 Economies?
Which countries lead the global electrification race? One useful measure: electricity as a share of total final energy consumption. Norway is out in front at 49%, helped by hydropower and steady electrification of transport and heat. Sweden follows at 33%, Japan at 31%, then China and Finland at 29%…
Optimist Daily: How Uruguay Achieved 98% Renewable Energy
During the 2000s, as global fossil fuel costs skyrocketed, Uruguay faced a tremendous issue. Uruguay, heavily reliant on foreign oil and paying exorbitant prices to for electricity from neighboring countries, found itself in an energy crisis. (Then) physicist Ramón Méndez Galain, spearheaded a radical shift towards clean energy - wind and hydropower…
National Audubon Society: We're Giving Birds 500,000 Acres of Rancher-Powered Conservation
We have been awarded $4 million from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) through the Grassland Resilience and Conservation Initiative to expand bird-friendly ranching practices across the Central Grasslands This will be achieved through our Audubon Conservation Ranching program….
Canary Media: 250+ onshore wind projects stalled as Pentagon freezes permitting
For the past 15 years, onshore wind projects have followed the same process to get the Department of Defense’s permission to build. Now, that familiar route has been closed off, effectively jeopardizing all new wind projects on private land — more than 250 nationwide…
Mercury News: Lake Oroville, California’s second-largest reservoir, is 99% full and rising
May 14 - In a clear sign that California is not facing water shortages or a drought this summer, Lake Oroville, the state’s second-largest reservoir and a key component of California’s water system, has nearly filled to the top. The massive reservoir, contained behind America’s tallest dam, was 99% full on May 12, 2026
NYT: New Study Shows Risks of Amazon Deforestation. And Rewards of Protection.
If deforestation and global warming continue unchecked, the Amazon rainforest could begin a gradual transition to a degraded, grassland-like ecosystem in just a few decades, according to new research published in the journal Nature on May 6. The study provides new insight into when the forest might start to slip over a so-called tipping point…
Mongabay: Facebook is the Market Place for Illegal Wildlife Trade
The platform hosted more than three-fourths of the 22,000 wild animals and their parts known to be sold online between April 2024 and March 2026, valued at $65 million, according to a recent report. Researchers found that about 84% of animals for sale on Facebook are banned from commercial cross-border trade under an international treaty…
The Live Oak Refillery: Promoting a low-waste, sustainable Lifestyle
We believe in caring for both people and the planet. Together, we’re reducing waste through the simple act of refilling - not just our containers, but also our hearts and minds with new ways of living more gently on the Earth. You can refill your own containers with everyday home, body, and cleaning products…
Kneedeep Times: In Uncertain Times, the Port of Oakland Goes Electric
The Black communities neighboring the port (of Oakland) have fought for decades for their right to cleaner air. Now that dream is within reach….
Coastside News: Pigeon Point State Park triples in size with land donation
Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park is now three times larger after Peninsula Open Space Trust donated 132 acres to the park, an estimated $5 million gift. “This greatly helps to preserve the natural beauty and outstanding views of the San Mateo Coast,” said Chris Spohrer….
Canary Media: US Steel to Build $2B Lower-carbon Iron Plant in Arkansas
U.S. Steel says it will invest $1.9 billion to build a modern and lower-carbon ironmaking plant in Arkansas — marking a key expansion beyond the company’s coal-based steel mills. The new “direct reduced iron” plant will sit alongside the sprawling Big River Steel Works, in the town of Osceola..
California State Parks: Bold Vision for Biggest Expansion of State Parks in Decades
Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced State Parks Forward, setting California on a path to rapidly expand the nation’s largest and most diverse State Park System through a streamlined acquisition and planning process. Building on unprecedented progress of key administration priorities like Outdoors for All and 30x30…
Optimist Daily: Clean energy surge leads to historic coal decline in China and India
For the first time in over five decades, coal-fired electricity generation has dropped in both China and India, the world’s two largest consumers of coal. This historic shift, outlined in new research from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and published by Carbon Brief, may signal the beginning of a long-anticipated global turning point in carbon emissions.
Emergence Magazine: The Scaffolding of Life, Suzanne Simard
This week, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard joins us to speak about her decades-long Mother Tree Project, which seeks to reimagine how we can protect the integrity of harvested forests and our climate futures. The challenge of our moment is not the discovery of new knowledge….
Inside Climate News: Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Protecting Colombia’s Magdalena River From Fracking
As a child growing up along the banks of Colombia’s Magdalena River, Yuvelis Morales Blanco learned to read the water. “Dark spots (oil spills) on the river meant that we were not going to eat,” she recalled. Now Morales Blanco, 24 y/o, has been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize — often called the “Green Nobel” ..
Quanta Magazine: What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels?
Evolution created the flagellar motor, a combination propeller/brain that enables single-celled bacteria to move toward food sources. It’s an electric motor that rotates at several hundred revolutions per second — faster than the flywheel in a race car engine — to twirl a tail-like flagellum that pushes the cell along…