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Appeals Court Clears Path for Controversial Pine Mountain Logging Project

By on November 13, 2024 in Logging & Vegetation Clearing, Pine Mountain, Roadless Areas, Ventura County, Wilderness

Panel of judges rules in favor of Forest Service.

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The legal team stands in the hallway of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Final Arguments Presented in Pine Mountain Legal Challenge

By on October 22, 2024 in Logging & Vegetation Clearing, Pine Mountain, Roadless Areas, Ventura County, Wilderness

ForestWatch and friends take our years-long fight to one of the top courts in the country

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Celebrating Major Victories for Wildlife: Room to Roam Act and Poison Free Wildlife Act Signed into Law! 

By on October 4, 2024 in eNews, Environmental Education, ForestWatch, Ventura County, Wildfire, Wildlife Protection

Supporters submitted over 5,500 emails.

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CA State Lawmakers Uplift Local Governments in Holding the Oil & Gas Industry Accountable

By on October 4, 2024 in eNews, Environmental Justice, Oil Development, Ventura County

Governor Newsom signs bills to uplift communities ability to regulate oil drilling and help address polluting idle wells.

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CalGEM Oxnard Community Meeting

By on June 27, 2024 in Environmental Education, Environmental Justice, Oil Development, Ventura County

CalGEM aims to plug 51 high priority oil and gas wells in Ventura County by 2025.

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Ventura County Board of Supervisors Suspends Amendments Aimed at Holding Polluters Accountable

By on June 17, 2024 in eNews, Oil Development, Ventura County

Ventura County Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted–to suspend further work on increasing oil and gas surety & bonding.

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Heavy equipment from a fracking operation in a mountainous area of the Sespe Oil Field

Agencies Cancel Plans to Frack Wells, Build Pipelines in Los Padres National Forest

By on April 15, 2024 in Climate change, Fracking, Oil Development, Ventura County

Signals end of toxic era of fracking in the Sespe Oil Field

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Women’s History Month: Leaders of Central Coast Public Lands

By on March 25, 2024 in Carrizo Plain, History, Public Lands, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Ventura County

Honoring extraordinary women who have played a leading role in protecting public lands and waters throughout California’s central coast region.

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Forest Service Releases Draft Management Plan for Wild & Scenic Piru Creek

By on March 19, 2024 in Rivers, Ventura County

Stakeholders weigh in on southern California’s newest “Wild and Scenic” waterway

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Ventura County Toxic Tour

By on January 16, 2024 in eNews, Oil Development, Public Lands, Ventura County

Head regulators of oil and gas in California tour oil drilling infrastructure sites in Ventura County.  

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