Environment Now and its partners track news and events that can impact our shared work to protect and restore California’s environment, particularly its waters and forests.


- Newsom’s Fast-Track for Delta Tunnel is a Reckless Attack on Democracy, Affordability, and California’s Water Future (5/14/25)
- Colorado Supreme Court clears a path for a major climate lawsuit against Suncor, Exxon Mobil (5/12/25)
- Coalition files petition for reconsideration after State Water Board denies call to cancel Delta tunnel change petition (5/13/25)
- Waterkeepers and Groups File Legal Petition to Save the Colorado River (5/6/25)
- Brown: Coastal Commission is Not to Blame for California’s Housing Crisis (5/6/25)
- Podcast: Is a River Alive? (5/5/25)
- Scientists Map Where Orphan Wells Pose Threats to Aquifers (5/4/25)
- Forest thinning might lead to more wildfire danger, researchers say (5/1/25)
- Inside Climate News Series Is a Scripps Howard Finalist (5/2/25)
- Remembering David ‘Chicken’ Nesmith, who kept water flowing down American, Mokelumne rivers (4/9/25)
- Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers (4/26/25)
- The Environment Is Under Attack. The Rights of Nature Movement Can Save It (4/22/25)
- Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Precedent-Setting Work Protecting an Imperiled River (4/21/25)
- Plagued with pollution for decades, Tijuana River is ranked nation’s second most endangered (4/16/25)
- Commercial salmon season is shut down — again. Will California’s iconic fish ever recover? (4/15/25)