Santa Barbara-Ventura Blog

Upcoming environmental events this summer: Green & Blue at Stow House, More Mesa exploration, Art, Condor Fest, Herbwalks, Film Festivals and more.

California’s 30x30 program, launched in 2020 by Governor Newsom’s executive order, aims to conserve 30 percent of California’s lands and coastal waters by 2030.

Currently, you can drill for oil in Santa Barbara County, but you can’t put a solar farm in the same industrial site. That is set to reverse this summer with an Oil Ordinance to prohibit new oil drilling going to the Board of Supervisors on June 23...

Our Chapter’s local elected officials launched an investigation on May 27 into Sable Offshore's politicized efforts to restart oil drilling operations off the Santa Barbara – Gaviota Coast.

In March the Trump administration ordered the pipeline that caused the Refugio oil spill to restart. Sable’s operation is unpermitted, unapproved and puts the entire coastline at risk, and Trump's order threatens the rule of law in the country. At...

Protecting our wildest and pristine forests is supported by people across political parties and across the country. But the Trump administration is steamrolling ahead with its plans to revoke a decades-old policy known as the Roadless Rule.

California is currently the staging ground for an unprecedented environmental rescue mission as conservationists race to save the western monarch butterfly.

In a Coffee and Conversation event at the Ventura Museum Feb. 21, Assembly member Steve Bennet told a full house that the California legislation is poised to ponder more than a dozen bills across the Senate and Assembly that will advance home...

April-May events from California Poppy Day to Earth Day, Electric Car Shows and more.

The U.S. Space Force has released a Request for Information seeking proposals to develop Space Launch Complex-14 at Vandenberg for super-heavy rockets, potentially SpaceX's Starship.