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.
- 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)
- Bakersfield to keep Kern River flowing through end of July (6/17/26)
- Ninth Circuit sides with Yurok Tribe over Klamath Irrigation Project (6/18/26)
- State Water Board releases Revised Draft Dairy Order (6/15/26)
- Internal Documents From a Southern California Water Agency Outline a Vision to Turn Eel River Water Rights Into a Cash Bonanza — at the Expense of Local Users (6/16/26)
- State Water Board to consider nitrogen regulation as new report details statewide pollution crisis (6/16/26)
- World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025 (6/9/26)
- NGOs say Water Board must compel Reclamation’s compliance with water rights permits for Shasta Temperature Management Plan (6/12/26)
- Coastal Commission to Sable Oil: cease and desist order is on the way (6/10/26)