Environment Now celebrates partner successes towards clean, accessible, sufficient water for the needs of people and the environment, and towards fully protecting California’s national forests from commercial logging.
The North Coast Regional Water Board adopted a new Vineyard Permit with strong protections against sediment and pesticide runoff following extensive advocacy by EN partner Russian Riverkeeper.
Opposition from 185 groups helped compel Golden State Natural Resources to cancel its plans to build two large wood pellet production facilities in California.
Cormac Cullinan, director of EN partner Wild Law Institute, received the Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions for his work on the Antarctic Rights movement. The Antarctic Rights campaign seeks to recognize Antarctica as an autonomous entity and safeguard it from harm.
Courts sided with EN partners and the California Coastal Commission in the latest round of their fight to prevent the illegal restart of the Plains All American pipeline in Santa Barbara County.
EN partners were featured in a new documentary about wildfires that aired nationally on PBS titled “Weathered: Inside the LA Firestorm.”
EN partners and the Pebble Beach Company announced a partnership to pursue the first golf course stormwater discharge permit in the nation, which will protect water quality in Carmel Bay.
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