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Target stops selling farmed salmon
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2010-01-27 |
| Victory! Due to the environmental risks associated with farmed salmon, the chain will stop selling farmed salmon. It will replace farmed salmon with wild-caught Alaskan salmon. | |
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Gov. Preps Budget Plan In Tight Times
- KCRA (new window)
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2009-12-28 |
| Beyond cuts in spending, the governor may seek to extend furloughs for state workers. And he's expected to push for expansion of oil drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel. | |
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Panel backs no-fishing zones off Southern California Coast
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2009-11-11 |
| A state blue-ribbon panel unanimously approved landmark fishing restrictions Tuesday for Southern California, creating a patchwork of havens for marine life designed to replenish the seas while leaving some waters open for anglers. | |
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Crews clean up oil slick on Alameda and Bay Farm Island
- Mercury News (new window)
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2009-11-01 |
| ALAMEDA — A ship that spilled hundreds of gallons of oil into the bay was moved from its anchorage to a San Francisco pier on Sunday, escorted by a crew of skimming vessels that sought to prevent any more residual oil from polluting the water. | |
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Enviros: Oil interests sense weakness in California Legislature
- Capitol Weekly (new window)
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2009-08-06 |
| Last week the state Assembly defeated a plan to drill off the coast of Santa Barbara. But the group behind this plan, a Houston-based oil company called Plains Exploration and Production, Co. (PXP), isn’t about to give up -- not when it has spent millions so far on PR and lobbying. | |
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Lawmakers send budget to Schwarzenegger
- Sacramento Bee (new window)
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2009-07-25 |
| Republican lawmakers argued that new technologies have made coastal drilling safe and that new oil extraction would bring budget relief and much-needed jobs to the California economy. | |
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Oil-drilling proposal taking environmental heat
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2009-07-23 |
| Environmental groups and some Democratic lawmakers are mobilizing against a state budget proposal that would allow the first new oil drilling off the California coast in 40 years. | |
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Deal Could Revive Oil Drilling Plans
- Ventura County Star (new window)
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2009-07-22 |
| An agreement between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders that will likely pave the way for the first offshore oil drilling project in California waters in 40 years could help open the spigot for tapping into 10.5 billion barrels of oil reserves off the state coast. | |
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Don't sell out California coast
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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2009-06-10 |
| Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who knows better, is trying one of the all-time end runs. The governor appears ready to ditch his past pledges to bar coastal drilling, leapfrogging past the State Lands Commission, which oversees coastal waters, and urging the Legislature to sign a devil's bargain to permit deep-water oil exploration. | |
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California Lands Commission spurns Schwarzenegger's oil drilling proposal
- The Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2009-06-02 |
| Governor's plan to revive the project and take it out of the commission's control would set a dangerous precedent, environmental groups say. The commission is urging legislators not to approve it. | |
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California Coastal Towns Banning Foam Take-out Containers
- Environmental Leader (new window)
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2009-05-08 |
| A growing number of California coastal communities have banned the use of polystyrene take-out containers by restaurants. | |
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Plastic foam ban passes in Palo Alto
- Mercury News (new window)
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2009-04-28 |
| Take-out food and drinks in Palo Alto will come in either paper or plastic containers after the city council on Monday voted unanimously to ban expanded polystyrene, popularly but incorrectly called Styrofoam. | |
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Now and forever: The Styrofoam dilemma
- Canada.com (new window)
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2009-04-22 |
| It's in your plastic cutlery, it's under your meat, it's the lid on your latte. And polystyrene, a.k.a. plastic No. 6, is in your world -- for at least 200 years longer than you will be -- clogging up storm drains and landfills. | |
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Sewage spills are a summer bummer for beachgoers
- LA Times (new window)
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2008-07-29 |
| The L.A. and San Gabriel rivers are like 'big latrines' that dump into Long Beach harbor, a city health official says. Severe sewage contamination has forced four beach closures so far this summer. | |
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The Big Pander to Big Oil
- The New York Times (new window)
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2008-06-19 |
| It was almost inevitable that a combination of $4-a-gallon gas, public anxiety and politicians eager to win votes or repair legacies would produce political pandering on an epic scale. | |
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Another Round Begins in the Fight Over Offshore Drilling
- Congressional Quarterly
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2007-01-21 |
| Just over a month after the 109th Congress passed last year's only major energy bill, some lawmakers are already exploring ways to dramatically widen that measure, by expanding drilling elsewhere along U.S. coasts. | |
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Altered Oceans
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2006-10-03 |
| A five-part series on the crisis in the seas. | |
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Delusional Thinking in the Senate
- New York Times
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2006-08-01 |
| Almost six months to the day after President Bush urged Congress in his State of the Union address to help break America’s addiction to imported oil, the Senate approved a bill yesterday that would do nothing to cure that addiction and could actually make it worse. | |
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No Drilling Off Our Coast
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2006-05-17 |
| Lifting the 25-year-od ban on new offshore drilling for natural gas is a bad enough idea on its own. But a proposal scheduled to be debated Thursday by the House is as devious as it is dreadful. Because natural gas is rarely found by itself — it's usually found in the same place as oil — the provision could increase the possibility of oil drilling off California and other coastal states. | |
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Offshore Drilling Backers Smell Victory
- Washington Post
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2006-02-21 |
| For decades, drilling for oil and natural gas off of much of the U.S. coastline has been off limits. But this year, with Congress facing high energy prices and a fresh lobbying push from oil companies and their supporters, even drilling opponents acknowledge that they may lose their fight to keep bans in place. | |
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Bills Before Congress Revisit Coastal Drilling
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2006-02-17 |
| Anxious about high energy prices, lawmakers from both parties are launching a new, more determined drive to relax the long-standing ban on new drilling off most U.S. coasts. | |
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