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.
Following years of EN partner advocacy and litigation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the Bay-Delta longfin smelt as endangered.
EN partners participated in Elemental, an acclaimed documentary on wildfire policy and home fire-safety that is now available for streaming. As one reviewer summarized, “U.S. Wildfire Response Badly Off-Base, New Doc Convincingly Shows.”
EN partner advocacy finally secured implementation of California’s health buffer law, which prevents new oil and gas wells near sensitive areas like schools and hospitals.
EN partner Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature supported an historic ruling finding that pollution in Ecuador’s Machángara River violates the river’s rights and must be cleaned up.
EN partners won a historic court ruling to protect Sonoma County waterways from depletion through overpumping of connected groundwater.
Multiple EN partners contributed to the newly released 2nd edition of a groundbreaking book on fire ecology, Mixed Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix. Some of the authors are now participating in a wildfire webinar series that covers key themes from the book.
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