Environmental Defense Center
Environmental Groups Condemn CA Coastal Commission Decision to Extend Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant for Another 20 Years
San Luis Obispo Mothers For Peace And The Environmental Defense Center Advocated To Shut Down The Plant Due To Seismic Risks And Significant Harm To Ocean Life Over fierce objections from San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Senator John Laird, the Environmental Defense Center…
California Allows Dangerous Santa Barbara Oil Project to Move Forward
State Fire Marshal waives safety requirements for restart of the pipeline that caused the 2015 Refugio spill, paving the way for another disaster on the California coast Plans to restart the failed Plains pipeline – the same one that caused…
EDC Appeals to County Supervisors to Deny Permits for Dangerous Oil Plan
Sable Offshore Corp. is seeking permits to restart the same pipeline that caused the 2015 Refugio oil spill The Environmental Defense Center (EDC) and its clients appealed to the County Board of Supervisors to deny permits for a massive oil drilling…
Environmental Defense Center, State Legislators Call for Environmental Review and Public Hearings on Restart of Failed Oil Pipeline
Plans to restart a failed pipeline that caused one of the worst oil spills in recent California history must be put on hold while the state conducts environmental review and holds public hearings, according to state legislators and the Santa…
Environmental Defense Center Stops Sable Offshore Oil Corporation from Concealing Oil Spill Plan
Judge Rules that State Must Release Plan to the Public A Superior Court judge ruled that the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) is entitled to receive an oil company document outlining the dangers of restarting the former Plains pipeline – the…
Sable Offshore Sues the State and the Nonprofit Environmental Defense Center to Stop Public from Knowing About Risks of Oil Project
Sable Offshore Corp., a Texas oil company attempting to restart a failed pipeline that caused one of worst oil spills in recent California history, has sued the State of California and a Santa Barbara-based environmental nonprofit to conceal information about…
Legal Fight to Preserve Agricultural Heritage in Santa Ynez Valley Ends in Success
Developers withdraw appeal of decision to deny subdivision of 4,000 acres of farmland The Environmental Defense Center (EDC) and Santa Barbara County Action Network (SBCAN) celebrated the withdrawal of an appeal by developers, leaving in place a Superior Court decision…
Op-Ed: ExxonMobil Drops Bid to Truck Oil in Santa Barbara
By the Center for Biological Diversity and the Environmental Defense Center ExxonMobil’s dangerous proposal to truck massive amounts of oil along California highways is dead after the company dropped its lawsuit challenging Santa Barbara County’s denial of the plan. Exxon’s…