Environmental activists and local citizens breathed a collective sigh of relief on June 7 when Southern California Edison announced it was abandoning efforts to restart the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant near San Clemente.
For some time the scientific community has accepted that human activities are responsible for significantly altering our atmosphere, oceans, land, polar ice caps and ecosystems.
Angeles Chapter members gathered May 5 at the Brookside Country Club in Pasadena to celebrate the achievements of some really fine volunteers. Guests mingled at the pre-dinner reception to the sounds of guitar music, engaging in friendly discussions and greeting old friends.
Do you like to have fun? Who doesn’t like to have fun?
Perhaps you already bring your own reusable grocery bags, have kicked the bottled water habit and know better than to microwave in plastics, but still find daily life swimming in plastics and want to use less of it.
The National Park Service, after several years of study, has recommended a much scaled-down version of a San Gabriel National Recreation Area that includes none of the Angeles National Forest. Proponents of a larger and more ambitious NRA now will look to Congress to shape and pass legislation that embodies more of their vision.
Watching members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources question Sally Jewell during her nomination process for Secretary of the Interior brought to mind John McPhee’s classic "Encounters with the Archdruid."
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