Jeremy P. Jacobs
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ADVOCACY: Sierra Club takes on the racism of founder John Muir
The Sierra Club is attempting to reckon with the racist views of its co-founder, legendary naturalist John Muir. "It's time to take down some of our own monuments, starting with some truth-telling about the Sierra Club's early history," wrote Executive Director Michael Brune. → Read More
INTERIOR: Racist roots, lack of diversity haunt national parks
National parks, often romanticized as "America's Best Idea," are also one of its whitest. → Read More
ENERGY TRANSITIONS: Hydropower giant Bonneville Power is going broke
LEWISTON, Idaho — A century ago, America charged up the Columbia River, erecting hydropower dams that provided cheap electricity — the foundation of the Pacific Northwest's economy. Now, the system is buckling and no one wants to talk about it. Except one congressman. → Read More
PROPERTY RIGHTS: Mineral fight goes Mesozoic: Who owns dinosaur bones?
Dinosaur fossils found in Montana have sparked a property rights dispute that has hit paleontologists like an asteroid. The lawsuit now at the state's Supreme Court could decide the fate of some of the greatest fossil finds of the last century -- including a complete T. Rex worth millions -- and affect mineral rights across the state. → Read More
AGRICULTURE: Cow manure: An unexpected climate solution
KERN COUNTY, Calif. — Historically one of the most polluting industries in California, dairy farms are stepping up to ambitious methane reduction targets. And the unlikely means to meeting the challenge lies in manure. → Read More
OIL AND GAS: 30 years later, Exxon Valdez’s legacy still gushes
When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in March 1989 in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, it released a record-setting 11 million gallons of crude oil into a uniquely vulnerable environment, killing thousands of birds and animals and marring 1,300 miles of pristine coastline for decades. Thirty years later, its legacy can be seen across the oil and gas industry and in responses to other… → Read More
COLORADO RIVER: Trump's rule a wild card for Western water supplies
The Trump administration's proposal to limit the Clean Water Act's reach over wetlands and waterways would likely complicate efforts to protect and manage the parched West's most important and imperiled source of water. → Read More
CALIFORNIA: Western water honchos secretly huddle on tunnels, fish
California's biggest water players quietly gathered on the shores of Lake Tahoe this week, hoping to reconcile some long-standing differences involving tunnels, fish, rivers and more. → Read More
CALIFORNIA: Western water honchos secretly huddle on tunnels, fish
California's biggest water players quietly gathered on the shores of Lake Tahoe this week, hoping to reconcile some long-standing differences involving tunnels, fish, rivers and more. → Read More
INTERIOR: Zinke's deputy: Civil, self-confident and under the radar
Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is Mr. Inside, complementing the gunslinging former Navy SEAL who is his boss, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. In short, Zinke wears the cowboy hat. Bernhardt does not. → Read More
WESTERN WATER: Farmers tap free-market ideas in bid to rescue aquifer
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. — A debate has raged for decades over the true price of water in the parched West. One farmer's answer: Let the market decide. → Read More
WESTERN WATER: Thirsty vineyard, Big Ag test landmark aquifer law
CUYAMA VALLEY, Calif. -- Virtually all of the state's groundwater problems come to a head in this slender valley, where locals say agribusiness and Harvard University's endowment fund control the implementation of a new law intended to solve aquifer problems. "It feels like the fox is guarding the henhouse," one said. → Read More
WESTERN WATER: Dry wells, sinking land and fears of a global food crisis
TULARE COUNTY, Calif. — The bottom is literally falling out of America's most productive farmland. → Read More
CALIFORNIA: Are more deadly mudslides inevitable? Experts say yes
MONTECITO, Calif. — Experts analyzing the catastrophic mudslide that claimed 20 lives here say there's no doubt it will happen again. → Read More
INFRASTRUCTURE: As dams burst, Trump seeks to gut key safety regime
This year’s extreme weather is wreaking havoc on dams, terrifying thousands of people who live near them. The Bureau of Reclamation has a program to study the problem. President Trump wants to cut it. → Read More
WESTERN WATER: Interior clears Calif. project with friends in high places
The Trump administration has cleared the way for a controversial project that would suck groundwater from under Southern California's Mojave Desert and sell it to water providers. → Read More
WESTERN WATER: Audit finds Brown's tunnel project violated state law
California Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) plan to replumb the state's water system violated state law in assigning a key contract and has run over budget by at least twofold, the state auditor concluded today. → Read More
ENDANGERED SPECIES: Dams seen driving 'mass extinction' of salmon
For millennia, Native Americans subsisted on a spring-run of chinook salmon in California's Klamath River. But four dams have brought the species to the brink of extinction. The "springers" aren't alone. → Read More
WESTERN WATER: How a useless dam nearly destroyed an iconic beach
VENTURA, Calif. -- The Pacific Ocean devoured Surfers' Point here because the Ventura River had stopped delivering sand needed to maintain it. The culprit was 16 miles upstream: Matilija Dam. → Read More
NATIONAL PARKS: NPS reconsiders permit for right‑wing rally
Facing pressure from federal and state officials, the National Park Service yesterday said it is re-evaluating a permit given to a right-wing group to hold a rally in San Francisco. → Read More