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.
- Feds determine San Francisco Bay’s white sturgeon is an endangered species—but refuse to protect them (7/22/26)
- Governments Knew the Risks of Global Warming as They Chose Fossil-Fueled Growth (7/15/26)
- Tribes and Environmental Groups Push Back on Trump Rule to Diminish Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (7/16/26)
- Top Science Panel Backs Research Linking Extreme Weather to Climate Change (7/16/26)
- Judge denies environmentalists pause on fed’s Shasta plan (7/10/26)
- Trump slashes wildlife protections, putting endangered CA animals at risk (7/11/26)
- Ninth Circuit asked to shut down CA offshore oil drilling operation
- Trump administration eyes offshore space launches (7/7/26)
- Rights of Nature Laws Are Coming Up Against Legal Systems Designed for Destruction (7/2/26)
- Bureau of Land Management opens public California land for oil and gas leasing (6/29/26)
- CA's First Carbon Capture Project Is Up and Running (7/3/26)
- A Town in Quebec Is the First Governing Body to Adopt the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Trees (7/1/26)
- Salmon Advocates Warn of a New Threat on the Sacramento River (6/29/26)
- Political pressure on Sites Reservoir doesn’t change the facts (6/23/26)
- Trump DOJ wants to sideline citizens in pollution fights (6/17/26)