Bernie's Trade Revolution
August 15, 2016
What goes around comes around, just in time to defeat the TPP and replace it with something much better.
The Accidental Corruption of the Coastal Commission
August 2, 2016
The current crisis in the California Coastal Commission was supposed to have been fixed 25 years ago
Replacing Diablo Starts Now
July 3, 2016
Questions about how to replace both Diablo Canyon’s energy and its contribution to the local economy have the same answer: it's Community Choice Energy.
SLO Planning Commission Bows Down to Oil By Rail
May 16, 2016
The SLO Planning Commission is trying to find a way to approve what may be the least popular project in the County's history, with impacts on the rest of the state.
Lois Capps Steps Up for Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary
May 2, 2016
Rep. Lois Capps has asked NOAA to commence designation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary
When Big Oil Cries “Fearmongering!,” Check Your Spin Meter
April 5, 2016
Why the Arroyo Grande oil field is ground zero in statewide oil strategyBy Andrew Christie, Chapter DirectorThe Center for Biological Diversity has drawn attention to events unfolding in Price Canyon and the Arroyo Grande oil field, where...
Coastal Commission is Under Water
February 13, 2016
Here's the best and saddest explanation for the California Coastal Commission's firing of its executive director.
Train Wreck: Phillips 66 oil-by-rail project meets the public
February 5, 2016
The first two days of public hearings on the proposal to bring trains bearing tar sands crude oil through California to the Phillips 66 refinery in Nipomo made dramatically clear the massive statewide opposition to the project.
Tell the White House: We Want a Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary
January 19, 2016
All the reasons to designate a Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary on the Central Coast were laid out at a Jan. 6 meeting in Morro Bay.
Phillips 66: Truth & Consequences
January 8, 2016
By Andrew Christie, Chapter DirectorWhen making a series of statements in support of a proposition, it’s not easy to contrive to make every single word into an evasion that completely evades the truth like a skater performing a series of figure...