Today, the Forest Service has taken the next step in rescinding the Roadless Rule, potentially making 4.4 million acres of old growth forests, rivers, and wildlife in California vulnerable to industrial logging and road development.

As you may have read in our blog or in the news, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed Senate Bill 131 (SB 131) — a sweeping CEQA rollback that threatens community health, biodiversity, and our shared climate and conservation goals

The California Natural Resources Agency, the state agency tasked with carrying out our state goal of protecting 30% of land and coastal waters by 2030 released their annual progress report on July 7th. In it, they reported that we have safeguarded 26.1% of lands and 21.9% of coastal waters thus far.

SB 607 (Wiener) would have changed the standard of review for CEQA lawsuits, making it more difficult for community members to enforce California’s bedrock environmental law. Thanks to voices like yours, that proposed change was rejected.

The new EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is " excited to announce " the largest deregulation action in U.S. history. Framed as an effort to...

Since EPIC last discussed  the state of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), significant changes have unfolded regarding the...

On November 14, 2024, BOEM published a Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for proposed offshore wind projects in California.