Legislation

PCL Insider – September 2019

Action Alert: SB 1 needs your Support! At PCL’s 2017 Annual Assembly, we hosted a series of workshop discussions focused on what California can do to...

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Water

The Dirty Water Crusade: House Votes to Deteriorate EPA Clean Water Act Enforcement

Recently, the Republican dominated U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2018; a bill designed to undermine the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...

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Water

US EPA Warns House Bill Turns the Clean Water Act into the Dirty Water Act

Last Tuesday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a four page legal analysis a House bill they caution, “would overturn almost 40 years of...

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Legislation

House’s proposed Budget: The Environment Takes a Hard Hit

Last Wednesday, the House Appropriations Committee released its version of the federal budget. With the expiration date on the current budget set to expire on...

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Press Releases, Water

Clear Waters Ahead; Los Angeles River Protected Under Clean Water Act

On Wednesday the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pronounced the entire concrete-lined Los Angeles River channel as a “traditional navigable...

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Press Releases, Uncategorized

Army Corps States Redwood City Saltponds Subject To Greater Environmental Scrutiny

The US Army Corps of Engineers has determined that a proposal to build 12,000 homes on the Cargill Salt pond wetlands in Redwood City is subject to the federal...

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