Santa Lucia Blog

Here's the best and saddest explanation for the California Coastal Commission's firing of its executive director.

The first two days of public hearings on the proposal to bring trains bearing tar sands crude oil through California to the Phillips 66 refinery in Nipomo made dramatically clear the massive statewide opposition to the project.

All the reasons to designate a Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary on the Central Coast were laid out at a Jan. 6 meeting in Morro Bay.

By Andrew Christie, Chapter DirectorWhen making a series of statements in support of a proposition, it’s not easy to contrive to make every single word into an evasion that completely evades the truth like a skater performing a series of figure...

If SLO County wants to escape the coming oil industry onslaught, now is the time to draw a line.

It's not nice to tell Canada how dirty tar sands crude oil is, but we will anyway.

Even if the Phillips 66 project could be guaranteed derailment & explosion free, it should be denied.

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Opponents of the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary claim we don't need its protections from offshore oil because Sacramento will save us. Afraid not..

If the Santa Margarita Ranch debacle really does make the county "hesitant" to approve the Laetitia Reserve, that's a good thing.