On Highway 199, Caltrans is currently logging old-growth redwoods in Jedediah Smith State Park. How are they getting away with this? Caltrans asserts that it does not need to undertake environmental analysis of this tree removal because the trees pose an imminent hazard to the roadway, thereby constituting an exempted “emergency.” While EPIC is sensitive to the need to make sure that trees don’t pose a risk to the roadway, there needs to be a better public process to determin

Last week, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the provisional winners for the development of offshore wind energy in the Humboldt Wind Energy Area, located 20-25 miles offshore from Humboldt Bay. Initial statements from the provisional winners indicate that if fully developed, the wind areas have the potential for upwards of 2.6 gigawatts of energy—enough for approximately two million homes. This marks a significant step forward in the expansion of renewab

EPIC has been monitoring the U.S. Forest Service’s Region 5 Post-Disturbance Hazardous Tree Management Project since it was first proposed in 2021. The Project is massive in its scope, covering 9 national forests that have burned in recent years and over 6,000 miles of roads and trails, many of which are seldom used or lead to dead ends. The project is so massive the Forest Service divided it into 3 zones. Our objection is focused on the “North Zone” of the Project, which enc

After nearly 20 years of dam removal advocacy from local tribes and activists, on November 17th the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave its final approval to remove four dams on the Klamath River. This historic agreement between California, Oregon, Yurok and Karuk Tribes, dam-owner PacifiCorp, fishing groups, and others took nearly 15 years to enact and is the final hurdle that was needed to implement the Amended Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement. Now, d