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Living On Ohlone Land

  The feature I wrote for this week’s East Bay Express explores how indigenous people in California’s East Bay Area are working to reclaim land and protect sacred sites, with a focus on the Sogorea Te Land Trust and the

June 1, 2018 Indigenous Struggles, New Articles

How California’s Oil Refining Sector Became, Proportionately, the Most Carbon-Intensive in the World

[Check out my new story in East Bay Monthly…] California is one of the world’s most important political arenas for climate change policy. In contrast to the Trump administration, which has begun to dismantle the federal government’s existing climate change

March 31, 2017April 5, 2017 Big Oil, Climate change, Environmental Justice, New Articles, Oil refineries, Tar Sands

Brown Administration Weighing In on Proposal to Stop Bay Area Tar Sands Refining

On May 17, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District will consider a proposal that would make the San Francisco Bay Area the world’s first region to place limits on oil refineries’ overall greenhouse-gas and particulate-matter emissions. This new regulation,

February 22, 2017February 22, 2017 Big Oil, Climate change, Jerry Brown, New Articles, Oil refineries, Updates

Deluged: Logging That Imperils CA Rivers and Residents

During storms of even moderate intensity, the Elk River in Humboldt County rises above its banks and dumps torrents of mud and sand across neighboring properties and has ruined domestic water supplies, inundated vehicles, buried farmland and spilled into homes. Why does

February 20, 2017February 22, 2017 Environmental Justice, New Articles, Salmon, Timber Industry, Updates, Water

This Bay Area Proposal Would Strike a Huge Blow Against Dirtier Oil Production (The Nation)

As I noted in a December post, I am preparing new stories on efforts by Bay Area climate justice activists who are mobilizing for the first-ever overall limits on oil refinery greenhouse gas and particulate matter emissions, thus dealing a major blow to

February 3, 2017 Big Oil, Climate change, New Articles, Oil refineries

Recent Stories on Redwood Region Logging Struggles

In the last month, I’ve published two stories in the Anderson Valley Advertiser concerning struggles against ecosystem destruction — one of which is also, clearly, a human rights struggle — in my home territory: California’s redwood region. My Jan. 11th story, “That Old

January 31, 2017January 31, 2017 New Articles, Salmon, Timber Industry, Water

North Bay and North Coast First Nations Stand with Standing Rock

Check out my new story in the North Bay Bohemian: On Sunday, Nov. 6, in Redwood Valley, one of two small Mendocino County towns where the Russian River’s headwaters spill from the southern Mendocino Range mountains, cars overflowed the parking

December 15, 2016 DAPL, Hedge Funds, Indigenous Struggles, New Articles

Wells Fargo: Big Oil’s Biggest Banker

“Wells Fargo is the US’ most controversy-laden bank of the moment, owing to the revelation that it reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in extra profits by opening roughly two million bogus customer accounts from 2011 to ’15. The fact that

November 11, 2016 DAPL, Fracking, Indigenous Struggles, New Articles, Wells Fargo

Willits Bypass Opens

A parade of classic cars led the way last Thursday afternoon, November 4th, as CalTrans celebrated Opening Day of the Willits Bypass. A bulletin relased by Big Orange’s legendary propaganda shill, Phil Frisbie, Jr., stated that the Chevy Bel Airs

November 11, 2016 Mendocino County, New Articles, Willits Bypass

The Bay Area’s Money Pipeline to Dakota Access

Check out my new story on Bay Area-based banks and investment firm that are financing the Dakota Access Pipeline and/or fracking companies that are poised to supply the pipeline with crude oil, published by the North Bay Bohemian.  I have another story

October 26, 2016 DAPL, Fracking, Hedge Funds, Indigenous Struggles, New Articles, Wells Fargo
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  • Anti-Terror Center Helped Police Track Environmental Activists (The Guardian, Oct. 2, 2019)
  • Interview: The Real News Network
  • Interview: Oregon Public Broadcasting
  • The US Border Patrol and an Israeli Military Contractor Are Putting a Native American Reservation Under Persistent Surveillance (The Intercept, Aug. 25, 2019)
  • Emails Raise Ethical Questions Over Trump Official’s Role in Gas Project

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