The Metropolitan Water District is considering two competing projects to provide Southern California an extra fifty million gallons of freshwater per day. These two projects, however, take very different approaches toward addressing the problem of limited freshwater supplies in this arid region.

For one project, Poseidon Resources wants to...

I tend not to think much about health care until I need to go to the doctor. Fortunately, that is not all that often and it is usually for something minor - a sprained ankle or a routine physical exam. However, the other day I received an email from one...

For decades, electric power plants have quietly preyed on America's waterways and devoured our fisheries, but their actions have largely escaped government accountability. Now - after years of successful litigation brought by environmental groups - the federal Environmental Protection Agency and many states like California have the opportunity to do...

The U.S. Supreme Court is wreaking havoc on America's wetlands, rivers and watersheds, and these waterways need your help. It's not that the nine honorable Justices are out filling our wetlands or dumping toxic waste into our rivers, but their razor-thin decisions in Rapanos and SWANCC are having...

If the City of Los Angeles is ever going to become one of the nation's greenest cities, the city's top lawyer must be a big part of leading the charge to clean up our rivers and coastline, fight environmental injustice and demand environmental accountability from polluters.

As a City...

Coal. It's nasty stuff and it's responsible for 80 percent of the total greenhouse gases that come from the generation of electricity in the U.S. But even if carbon capture and sequestration technology existed to remove these emissions, it still wouldn't make coal clean. From cradle to grave, coal is...

The environmental community has real reason to celebrate: a regime in Washington set on wrecking or reversing decades of hard-won progress on the environment has been replaced by a president who at least appears committed to a green agenda. Given the sad record of failure, obstructionism and outright hostility compiled...

Dear President George W. Bush,

I can't say it's been a pleasure (it's been anything but) and I won't say let's do it again (more like never again). But let me offer some simple heartfelt words shared by millions at this moment: please leave, just go, adios, hit the road....

President Bush has left a regulatory wasteland in his wake these last eight years, and it won't be easy for President Obama to undo all of the Bush rollbacks and fulfill the original intent of many of our nation's environmental laws.

Waterkeeper Alliance's new report, the U.S. Blueprint...

To me, one of the most infuriating things about the so-called global warming "debate" is that many of those who deny that global warming is caused by humans don't seem to give a second thought to planning for the consequences of a changing climate. It is as if they believe...

Amid the political maneuverings of NAFTA's proponents and detractors on both sides of the border, an important question remains unanswered regarding what NAFTA signatories will do about a controversial environmental report presently under their consideration. The report details an investigation into Canada's continuing failure to stop toxic PCBs from flowing...