U.S. House of Representatives Interior and Environment Appropriations bill vote = time to once again argue for opening the California coast to more offshore oil drilling. Within minutes, we received alerts from Surfrider and SaveOurEnvironment.org of this:
In the next few days, the House of Representatives will decide whether or not to expose our beautiful coasts and marine wildlife to the perils of offshore drilling when they vote on the Interior and Environment Appropriations bill.
Both clean-
We swear we already warned you about a congressional vote to drill off our coast, and then rejoiced with you when it was defeated. Yeah, wasn't it like two weeks ago? Never underestimate the power of Big Oil lobbyshits. Congress, obviously in need of a diversion from far more grave national matters like flag-burning amendments (really, has anyone ever seen a flag burning? In the U.S.? In person? No, your annual family vacation to Tehran does not count!), once again has put despoiling our coastli
Further proving that otherwise politically conservative Newport Beach has an environmental streak when it comes to its own shores (but no one else's): Rep. John Campbell (R-The Arches) joined Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) as the only members of the Orange County congressional delegation to vote against lifting the 25-year ban on oil and natural gas drilling off most of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and the eastern part of the Gulf of Mexico.
The legislation, which passed by a vote of
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted an Upland IT contractor for allegedly sabotaging the offshore oil rig computer systems that he helped install for a Long Beach-based company. Mario Azar, 28, was charged Tuesday with a single count of unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, an allegation that could fetch him 10 years in the federal pen.Azar was an information technology consultant under contract with Pacific Energy Resources, where he helped set up a computer system used to
WestCoyoteHills.comPacific Coast Homes rendering for a section of West Coyote Hills. Whenever plans heat up to build ever more estate homes in the highlands
ringing Fullerton, Friends of Coyote Hills mobilizes the masses in the
flats to come out against more building there. Well, here we are in the
second week of July. Hot enough for you?"Opposition to
Chevron's plan to build in the last open space in North Orange County
will continue strong at a City of Fullerton 'Informational Meeting'
concern
