California

What Happens When NEPA Is Ignored: The Oroville Dam

The Oroville Dam is a powerful example of the harm that can be caused when courts, agencies and developers fail to take the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) seriously.

A Win for Public Health: California Halts Spraying of Toxic Pesticides

After more than 30 years of disregard for state environmental laws, the agency’s chemical weapons were finally taken off the table.

A ski resort in Sequoia National Park? It almost happened

Sequoia National Forest is home to the some of the tallest and oldest tress in the world. That didn’t stop Walt Disney Company’s efforts to build a ski resort in Mineral King valley. NEPA did.

Giant Sequoia National Monument Saved from Logging

The Giant Sequoia National Monument’s towering trees are among the planet’s most majestic living things. But that hasn’t stopped efforts to cut them for timber.

The Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project

During the NEPA review process, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and Los Angeles Metro officials jointly identified a rarely-used five-mile long freight rail line for use that limited disruption to local neighborhoods and significantly reduced costs.

Disaster averted: California’s Bolinas Lagoon

In 2006, the US Army Corps of Engineers proposed dredging nearly 1.4 million cubic yards of sediment from the lagoon, claiming the project would preventing the lagoon from silting in. The subsequent environmental review, conducted under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), told a very different story.

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