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Flickr / Dirk DBQ/The American West is facing a water crisis made worse every year by climate change and drought. That’s posing an existential threat to agricultural economies across the region, especially in smaller cities and towns like Paso Robles. -
Flickr / Joe Steed/A local non-profit legal firm has reached a tentative settlement with Lompoc for Clean Water Act violations in the Santa Ynez Watershed. The city is expected to pay about a quarter million dollars towards the watershed’s restoration process.
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The Biden Administration this month filed to overturn a lower court decision that halts offshore fracking in California federal waters, including the Santa Barbara Channel. -
A congressional subcommittee heard testimony on the offshore wind project proposed off of Morro Bay.
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The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County has received a $360,000 grant from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The agency said the goal is to preserve about 300 acres of San Luis Obispo County land and its surrounding ecosystem.
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Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant could now stay open until 2030, five years after its previously scheduled decommissioning.
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Two years ago two non profit organizations banded together to prevent the approval of oil wells in the Carrizo Plain National Monument. They sued the US Bureau of Land Management and recently came to the agreement of permanently closing the restoration of eleven dormant oil wells and the approval for a new well.
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Climate change and drought are affecting the Central Coast’s water supply, leading local governments in South SLO County to collaborate on a project called Central Coast Blue.
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At tomorrow's San Luis Obispo City Council meeting, councilmembers may declare "Stage 2" water contingency measures to align with emergency drought measures from the state,
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The plant south of Morro Bay produces about 9% of the state’s entire energy supply, without adding carbon emissions to the atmosphere.
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The proposal would reintroduce prescribed burning to more than 230,000 acres of forest in Kern, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
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The California Energy Commission voted today to move forward with a historic target for offshore wind energy in the state, setting a goal they say could power almost 4 million homes by 2030 and 25 million homes by midcentury.
