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| Environment California is very disappointed in NBC for promoting plastic Ziploc bags as environmentally friendly during the networks high profile ‘Green Week.’ The endorsement took place during Wednesday’s episode of The Biggest Loser, in which using a new type of Ziploc bags was touted as environmentally friendly. | |
| After months of negotiations and meetings, a network of marine protected areas - or underwater state parks - have been decided for southern California’s coast. | |
| According to “Oceans Under the Gun”, a new report written by Environment America and the Sierra Club, California’s clean beaches and oceans support a vibrant coastal tourism and fishing economy that generates $55 billion per year in California, verses the $22 billion that the federal government estimates California has in oil and gas. California’s coast has wonderful beaches, parks, marshes, and amazing wildlife, all of which would be threatened by more offshore oil drilling, currently under debate in Washington DC. | |
| Industrial facilities dumped nearly four million pounds of toxic chemicals into California’s waterways, according to a report released today by Environment California: Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act. The report also finds that toxic chemicals were discharged in 1,900 waterways across all 50 states. | |
| On behalf of Environment California, we are thrilled to see the Governor sign AB1217 into law. This bill promotes the health and vitality of California’s oceans, protects the economic livelihoods of California fishing communities, and helps consumers make sustainable seafood choices. | |
| "Victory prevailed late last night as an attempt to open new oil drilling leases off Santa Barbara coast died without a vote," said Gina Goodhill, the Ocean Advocate for Environment California. | |
| According to the Los Angeles Times, the California State Assembly has expunged the vote on AB 23 the budget bill to allow oil drilling off the coast of California. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-purge6-2009aug06,0,1598055.story | |
| Sacramento, CA. Governor Schwarzenegger signed a budget deal that will close up to 100 state parks. "Parks are like parachutes, then only work when they're open, said Dan Jacobson Legislative Director for Environment California. California has 279 State parks that span the state of California. State parks include natural wonders like redwood trees, rare and endangered species, and scenic rivers and beaches. “Closing our parks won’t help close the budget, but it will hurt Californian’s and others who come to California for vacations,” said Jacobson. | |
| Today the Budget Conference Committee had the chance to remove the PXP oil drilling plans from the budget committee and they passed on this issue. The issue will come up later tonight, Friday, or over the weekend. Environment California is lobbying the members of the committee to reject this proposal. | |
| Fed up with polluted beaches and marine debris that will last 1,000 years Environment California is calling on Jamba Juice to make the switch from Styrofoam to less harmful drink containers at the companies annual shareholder convention. | |
| Environment California is pleased that AB 1358, a bill to ban single use Polystyrene take-out containers, has passed out of The Natural Resources Committee today, the first step in turning this important bill into a state-wide law | |
| Sections of the southern Queensland coast have been declared disaster areas after a massive oil spill from a cargo ship. | |
| Statement from Environment California on national appointment of Jane Lubchenco to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). | |
| Statement from Environment California to the Fish and Game Commission on the Marine Protected Area adoption plan for the North Central Coast | |
| “The California Ocean Protection Council’s proposal to ban polystyrene take-out containers and institute a statewide fee on single-use plastic grocery bags is an admirable start to reducing ocean pollution. Both the OPC and the Governor should be applauded for this proposal. We particularly appreciate OPC’s plan to ban polystyrene take-out containers, one of the biggest dangers to our oceans. We look forward to working with the OPC in the coming months to further develop this plan to eliminate marine debris.” “Plastic in the ocean is one of the biggest problems facing our ocean ecosystem. Polystyrene doesn’t biodegrade once in the ocean. Instead, it breaks into thousands of small pieces of plastic that soak up pollutants in the water. Jellyfish then eat these pollution drenched pieces, which eventually make it up the food chain to humans.” | |
| Sacramento, CA – Last week, the California Legislature passed two joint resolutions to protect California’s oceans and coastlines. A.J.R. 51, a resolution to protect California’s coastline from expanded offshore drilling, and A.J.R. 66, a resolution to strengthen fishery management guidelines, both protect California’s oceans and coastlines against weaker federal legislation. | |
| Dan Jacobson: "Environment California is firmly opposed to proposals to continue decades of failed energy policy by opening our protected coasts to offshore drilling..." | |
| The Supreme Court handed a gift to one of the biggest polluters in the world when they reduced what had once been a $5 billion punitive damages award against ExxonMobil to about $500 million. At a time when oil companies are making record profits they need to be held accountable for their dangerous and dirty accidents. Our oceans are struggling to survive. Money from this settlement could have been used to protect our oceans for future generations. Now the oil companies are getting off the hook. This decision is a shame and sin. | |
| Press statement by Dan Jacobson, Legislative Director for Environment California, on Bush's call opening coastal waters to drilling. Excerpts from Governor Schwarzenegger, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Feinstein, and Senator Boxer attached. | |
| Five years have elapsed since the Pew Oceans Commission's seminal report urging prompt action to arrest the alarming decline of this country's ocean resources. | |
| Today, the Senate Commerce Committee approved and referred to the full Senate H.R. 1187, a bill to double the size of the Gulf of Farallones - Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries and protect a unique marine environment off our coast in Northern California. Marine sanctuaries heal our damaged oceans and protect vulnerable sea animals. At various times during the year, the area hosts more than one third of the world’s whale and dolphin species including the world’s largest concentration of endangered Blue whales, the largest animal on earth. Other endangered marine animals that use the area include Humpback whales, sea turtles and sea birds. The largest concentration of breeding seabirds in the continental U.S. feasts on the rich food produced here, some migrating from as far away as the Midway Atoll in the central Pacific (protected by the new National Marine Monument) and New Zealand to feed. | |
| Senate Oceans Subcommittee Hearing May 6, 2008 Will Support Sanctuary Expansion off California Coast | |
| On behalf of the millions of members our organizations represent, we urge you to support H.R. 1187, the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act, as passed by the House on March 31st under suspension of the rules and by the Natural Resources Committee by voice vote. As you know, the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard will hold a hearing on the bill on May 6th and a markup soon thereafter. | |
| San Francisco, CA - Federal data show that at least nine percent of Pacific Coast fish stocks for which there is adequate information were overfished in 2007. However, for fully 70 percent of the fish stocks (129 out of 182) along the Pacific Coast, the government doesn’t have adequate information to know whether these stocks are healthy or not, according to a report released by Environment California today. | |
| Environment America and our partner, Environment California, applaud the efforts of many including Rep. Lynn Woolsey, Rep. Nick Rahall, Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, and Rep. Madeline Bordallo, Chairwoman of the Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans Subcommittee, for securing passage of H.R. 1187 which will double the size of the Gulf of Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries off the coast of California. | |
| Environment California announces its support for H.R. 1187, a bill to expand the Gulf of Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries northward to areas off the coast of Sonoma and Mendocino Counties in California. | |
| San Diego-Environmental Activists, scientists, and concerned citizens assembled before City Hall today to draw attention to the crisis of over fishing and the consequential threat to ocean ecosystems and marine mammals such as turtles, dolphins, and whales. | |
| The California State Senate passed SB 899 (Simitian), a bill that will phase out the use of dangerous chemicals from plastic packaging used in California by 2015. SB 899 codifies section 11 of the California Ocean Protection Council resolution passed in February 2007. ( http://resources.ca.gov/copc/02-08 07_meeting/Adopted_Marine_Debris_Res_0207.pdf ) | |
| The Senate Environmental Quality Committee voted 4-2 to pass legislation to phase out the use of dangerous toxic chemicals in plastic packaging and establish programs to recycle derelict fishing gear. | |
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