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California Cities In Fracas Over Huge Gas-Fired Power Plant

Citizens of Lancaster, CA, fear air pollutants from the plant will harm children’s health.

Week in Climate: Highlights from the Senate's All-Nighter and More

The U.S. Capitol building in early April of 2014.

Read some of the quotable best from the Senate’s #Up4Climate event.

Fighting for Peoples' Right to Have Their Day in Court

Earthjustice has filed an appeal challenging a California law that severely restricts the public’s ability to dispute the California Energy Commission’s green-lighting of new power plants

Coast-to-Coast Opposition to Exporting Dirty Energy

The largest environmental protest in Baltimore, MD, called on political leaders to stop Dominion Power's Cove Point liquefied natural gas export terminal on the Chesapeake Bay.

Communities nationwide are rejecting fossil fuel export facilities.

House Passes Its Polluter Protection Act

Passes wrongheaded bill to stop EPA action on climate change.

Climate Denier Parched for Lack of Facts About Drought

Science be damned! Senator Session relies on opinion.

Drain Hetch Hetchy?

Book cover of 'Hetch Hetchy: Undoing a Great American Mistake.'

New Ken Brower book re-stirs old controvery of Yosemite dam.

Louisianans take action to find out what’s happening with their dirty neighbors—oil refineries—explains Molly Brackin of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade. Since 2000, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade has worked with communities throughout Louisiana that neighbor oil refineries and chemical plants, and are overburdened by pollution.

Restoring Instream Flow to Maui's "Four Great Waters"

Upper diversion on Waihe`e River with the entire flow of the river being diverted.

Under modern Hawaiʻi law, the rivers and streams in question (collectively known as Nā Wai ʻEhā—“The Four Great Waters” of Waihe‘e, ʻĪao (traditionally Wailuku), Waiehu, and Waikapū) are a public trust; but since the sugar plantation era, two companies drained them dry for private profit.