EcoNews Report

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A weekly environmental news roundup produced in Arcata, California by Tom Wheeler (Environmental Protection Information Center), Alicia Hamann (Friends of the Eel River), Jen Kalt (Humboldt Waterkeeper) and Colin Fiske (Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities). 


Episode Date
Land Back as Conservation
Jul 25, 2026
Trump Attacks the California Coast
Jul 18, 2026
Eureka Cops Argue for Safer Streets
Jul 11, 2026
The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of Abalone with Author Ann Vileisis
Jul 04, 2026
Fish-killing Chemical Found in Local Water
Jun 27, 2026
Offshore Wind Port Development
Jun 19, 2026
Cleaning Up Cannabis
Jun 13, 2026
Get to Know River Otters!
Jun 06, 2026
Native Plant Nerds, Unite!
May 30, 2026
Is Your Fish Safe to Eat?
May 23, 2026
Bring Back Our Grizzlies!
May 16, 2026
What's Wrong with the Forest Service?
May 09, 2026
New Threat to Eel River Dam Removal?
May 02, 2026
How Can We Restore the Elk River?
Apr 25, 2026
A New Mandate for State-Owned Forests?
Apr 18, 2026
The "God Squad" Returns!
Apr 04, 2026
The Fight over Richardson Grove, Explain
Mar 28, 2026
Fix Your Stuff (And Save the Planet)
Mar 14, 2026
Transmission Upgrades for Offshore Wind
Mar 07, 2026
Asm. Rogers on this Legislative Session
Feb 28, 2026
Trump Spikes Climate Regulations
Feb 21, 2026
Wildlife Crossings Help Wildlife and Motorists
Feb 07, 2026
Fix Fourth and Fifth Streets in Eureka!
Jan 31, 2026
Climate Action Theatre
Jan 17, 2026
Dealing with Eco-Anxiety
Jan 12, 2026
Poems for a New Year
Jan 09, 2026
The Temperate Rainforests of North America
Dec 20, 2025
Local Governments to Finally Take Action on Climate Change?
Dec 13, 2025
Exploring the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, a Unique California Landscape Just a Few Hours From Humboldt
Dec 06, 2025
What’s So Special About the Siskiyou Crest?
Nov 22, 2025
Tell FERC That Eel River Dams Gotta Go!
Nov 08, 2025
The Water Remembers with Amy Bowers Cordalis
Nov 01, 2025
Northern Humboldt Indians
Oct 25, 2025
The Week Without Driving in the Rearview Mirror
Oct 19, 2025
Assemblymember Connolly Reflects on the Legislative Session
Oct 10, 2025
Are Your Easter Lilies Poisoning the Smith River?
Oct 04, 2025
Rethinking High-Severity Fires?
Sep 30, 2025
You Should Attend the Eel River Community Meeting
Sep 20, 2025
What Will Humboldt County’s New ‘Dark Skies’ Ordinance Accomplish?
Sep 14, 2025
New Crosswalk, Who Dis?
Aug 31, 2025
Talking CEQA Reforms
Aug 24, 2025
Electrifying Your Home is Cheaper Than You Think It Is, and You Can Find Out About It All at Tuesday’s Electrification Fair
Aug 16, 2025
The Next Big Step Toward Eel River Dam Removal
Aug 09, 2025
A Geological Perspective on Last Week’s Quake
Aug 02, 2025
A New 353-Acre Reserve on Baduwa’t
Jul 30, 2025
Batteries and Achieving 100 Percent Renewable Energy
Jul 20, 2025
When Driving is Not An Option
Jul 13, 2025
Potholes in the Forest Service Roadless Rule
Jul 05, 2025
Come Celebrate the Bay Trail!
Jun 28, 2025
Stopping the Spread of Golden Mussels
Jun 14, 2025
The Supreme Court and the National Environmental Policy Act
Jun 07, 2025
Is Offshore Wind Still on Humboldt's Horizon?
May 31, 2025
Pope Francis’ Environmental Legacy
May 17, 2025
Earthquake-Driven Subsidence Around Humboldt Bay
May 10, 2025
New Timber Harvest Plan for Jackson State Forest
May 04, 2025
Reviewing Trump's First 100-ish Days
Apr 26, 2025
How Much of Measure O Should Go to Public Transit?
Apr 12, 2025
Coastal Commission Under Attack
Apr 06, 2025
Celebrating Klamath Dam Removal Through Art
Mar 29, 2025
What is "Renewable Diesel?"
Mar 22, 2025
Can Offshore Wind Retire Gas Plants?
Mar 15, 2025
Trump has gutted NEPA. What does that mean?
Mar 08, 2025
Where does my power come from?
Mar 01, 2025
The Makers of the New Documentary on Baduwa’t Tell Us Why They Told the River’s Story
Feb 22, 2025
A Deal for the Eel?
Feb 16, 2025
What Does it Mean to be a Dark Sky Place, and Should Humboldt Become One?
Feb 08, 2025
Dissecting Trump's First Week
Feb 01, 2025
International Climate Action in a Trump Era
Jan 25, 2025
President Carter's Environmental Legacy
Jan 18, 2025
Green Burial: Thinking Outside the Coffin
Jan 11, 2025
Poet Jerry Martien Helps Soothe Your Soul
Jan 04, 2025
The Continuing Problem of Black Market Cannabis Trespass Grows
Dec 29, 2024
What Gives You Hope?
Dec 21, 2024
A Geological Perspective on Last Week’s Quake
Dec 14, 2024
Can We Clean Up Humboldt Bay Before the Sea Rises?
Dec 07, 2024
Solar is Coming to Hydesville!
Nov 23, 2024
Is Humboldt Bay the Canary in the Coal Mine for Sea Level Rise?
Nov 17, 2024
EcoNews: Election Recap: It Wasn't All Bad! (But Trump...)
Nov 08, 2024
Proposed Wood Pellet Biofuel Project Draws Criticism
Nov 02, 2024
Is Humboldt a "Climate Refuge?"
Oct 26, 2024
Conversation with Congressman Jared Huffman
Oct 24, 2024
A Week Without Driving
Oct 12, 2024
Wolves are Returning to California
Oct 05, 2024
How Will Groundwater be Regulated After This Significant Court Ruling?
Sep 29, 2024
Draft Climate Act Plan Released
Sep 21, 2024
What If Measure F Passes?
Sep 14, 2024
EcoNews: Letting Go of Your Eco-Grief
Sep 07, 2024
How to Think About Fire (From a Fire Expert)
Aug 24, 2024
Clean Water on the Ballot
Aug 17, 2024
Northwest Forest Plan at 30
Aug 04, 2024
The Gang Goes to Norway
Jul 27, 2024
Top 10 Questions About Offshore Wind
Jul 12, 2024
Chevron Overturned: What It Means for Our Environment
Jul 03, 2024
"Project 2025" and the Environment
Jun 29, 2024
Controversial Biomass Proposal's Tie to Humboldt County
Jun 22, 2024
Rising Seas and the Future of Humboldt Bay
Jun 15, 2024
Wiyot Tribe and BLM Partner for Stewardship of Headwaters
Jun 12, 2024
Opportunities and Challenges for the Great Redwood Trail
Jun 01, 2024
Offshore Wind Developers on Exploring the Ocean Floor
May 25, 2024
Remembering Petey Brucker
May 18, 2024
In-Stream Flows Set to Expire for Klamath Tributaries. What's Next?
May 11, 2024
Protecting In-Stream Flows in the Mad River
May 04, 2024
Toxic Soup in the Smith River
Apr 21, 2024
Coping with Climate Anxiety
Apr 06, 2024
How Do Fish Get Counted, and Why Does Genetic Diversity Matter?
Mar 31, 2024
Can We Clean Up Humboldt Bay Before the Sea Rises?
Mar 23, 2024
You Loved the Movie. Now See Humboldt's Dunes!
Mar 16, 2024
Dam Removal is Sometimes Messy (But Worth It)
Mar 09, 2024
Hydrogen Buses Coming to Humboldt
Mar 02, 2024
Is Humboldt Bay the Canary in the Coal Mine for Sea Level Rise?
Feb 23, 2024
Delving Deeper into Port Electrification
Feb 17, 2024
Greening the Grid
Feb 10, 2024
Declining Access to Public Spaces
Feb 03, 2024
How Did the Harbor District Land Almost Half a Billion Dollars?
Jan 26, 2024
Supply Skepticism: Can Building More Housing Reduce Costs?
Jan 20, 2024
Coho Salmon in Downtown Arcata?
Jan 13, 2024
Poetry for a New Year
Jan 06, 2024
California's Third Shakiest Earthquake
Dec 29, 2023
Barred Owls Impact More than Spotted Owls
Dec 16, 2023
The Bird Buzz with Ken Burton
Dec 09, 2023
Meet the Energy Superstar at the Hoopa Valley Public Utilities District
Dec 02, 2023
California's Coast vs. Sea Level Rise
Nov 24, 2023
What Has Sacramento Done for Us Lately?
Nov 18, 2023
Rep. Huffman Talks Legislative Priorities
Nov 11, 2023
How much do you know about Humboldt Bay Oysters?
Nov 04, 2023
HumCo Climate Action Plan Careening Towards Cliff?
Oct 29, 2023
Tsunamis, Sea Level Rise, and Humboldt Bay's Spent Nuclear Waste Site
Oct 20, 2023
Looking Back on a Week Without Driving
Oct 14, 2023
The Latest on the Seismically Unsafe Scott Dam
Oct 08, 2023
What’s the Deal with all the Construction on Highway 101?
Sep 30, 2023
EcoNews: Celebrate Latino Heritage Month with Latino Outdoors
Sep 16, 2023
Coastal Cleanup Month is Here!
Sep 10, 2023
An Ode to the Humble (and Humboldt) Oyster
Sep 02, 2023
Kids Beat Montana to Uphold Right to a Healthy Environment
Aug 19, 2023
Sonoma Proposal for Eel River Dams and Why Humboldt Should Be Wary
Aug 12, 2023
Are Environmental Laws in the Way?
Aug 11, 2023
What's a Walkable Community?
Jul 30, 2023
NIMBY Initiative on the Ballot?
Jul 22, 2023
What's In Store for Offshore Port Development?
Jul 14, 2023
Celebrate Plastic Free July!
Jul 08, 2023
Increasing Water Levels in the South Fork Eel River
Jul 01, 2023
Exploring Sea Otter Reintroduction
Jun 23, 2023
What’s That Fence In the River?
Jun 17, 2023
Confused by the Cones on Broadway?
Jun 10, 2023
A Trip Back in Time to the Ghost Forest, With Author and Redwood Summer Veteran Greg King
Jun 04, 2023
Community Benefits from Offshore Wind?
May 27, 2023
Protecting 30% of California by 2030
May 20, 2023
To Save an Owl, We Kill an Owl?
May 13, 2023
How to Run a Rural Transit Agency
May 06, 2023
New Fish, Who Dis?
Apr 29, 2023
When Enviros are Pro-Development
Apr 22, 2023
Suing the Feds for Klamath Water
Apr 16, 2023
Bird Nerds Rejoice: Godwit Days are Here Again!
Apr 08, 2023
PG&E Finally Taking Dam Safety Seriously
Apr 01, 2023
Tsunamis, Sneaker Waves, and Climate Change
Mar 26, 2023
Solving The Climate Crisis Requires More Than Just Electrifying Your Pick-up Truck
Mar 18, 2023
Tribal Marine Stewards Network
Mar 04, 2023
Save Money While Saving the Planet
Feb 25, 2023
Congressman Jared Huffman Returns to the Show to Spill All the DC Tea
Feb 18, 2023
Big Gov't Isn't Coming to Steal Your Gas Stove (But Maybe It Should)
Feb 11, 2023
New Legislation to Return Local Control Over (Some) Pesticide Spraying
Feb 03, 2023
The Central Valley Project and its North Coast Connections
Jan 22, 2023
Climate Change Supercharging Winter Storms
Jan 14, 2023
Poets Jerry Martien and Katy Gurin Welcome the New Year with Poetry
Jan 07, 2023
California's Third Shakiest Earthquake
Dec 31, 2022
Trespass Cannabis Grows Polluting Surface Water?
Dec 24, 2022
Old Mills Sites Slated for New Offshore Wind Port
Dec 17, 2022
How to Make Ethical Decisions in Complicated World
Dec 03, 2022
Do we have a human right not to die in the Climate Wars?
Nov 26, 2022
EcoNews Election Wrap Up
Nov 19, 2022
How Do We Count The Fish?
Nov 13, 2022
Rewilding California
Nov 05, 2022
Full Steam Ahead for the Great Redwood Trail!
Oct 28, 2022
How to Make our Roads Safer: Achieving a Vision of Zero Road Deaths
Oct 22, 2022
PG&E Spraying, and the Spraying Last Time
Oct 09, 2022
Which Way the Wind Festival
Oct 02, 2022
New Research Calls Into Question Carbon Offsets From Northwest California Forests
Sep 25, 2022
A Love Story About the Klamath Mountains
Sep 11, 2022
Klamath River Woes but Progress on Dam Removal
Sep 03, 2022
How Will the IRA Impact Humboldt?
Aug 27, 2022
Wiyot Tribe Celebrates the Return of Coastal Forest & Wetlands
Aug 20, 2022
Exploring California’s Coasts with Obi Kaufmann
Aug 14, 2022
Big Doings on the Beautiful Eel River
Aug 06, 2022
Healing Humboldt's Wildlife
Aug 04, 2022
#LandBack is Environmentalism
Jul 23, 2022
Marbled Murrelets Win in Court
Jul 16, 2022
Supreme Court’s Climate Decisions are Catastrophic (and Not Just for the Climate)
Jul 10, 2022
Elections Wrap-Up
Jun 25, 2022
California’s Climate Plan Misses the Mark?
Jun 19, 2022
Power Grid Issues Limit Future Wind Development
Jun 11, 2022
Toxic Tires?
Jun 04, 2022
Coal Trains Inch Forward with Surface Transportation Board Decision
May 28, 2022
Composting 101
May 07, 2022
The Real McKay! Release of Management Plan Brings Eureka’s Future Community Forest One Step Closer
Apr 30, 2022
Bear Dogs on the Job!
Apr 24, 2022
The Beginning of the End for Eel River Dams
Apr 16, 2022
Microplastic in My Blood?
Apr 10, 2022
Understanding ‘Urbanism’
Apr 02, 2022
Bike Back Better! Getting Back on Two Wheels as an Adult
Mar 26, 2022
What do You Know About Alternative Energy?
Mar 20, 2022
Housing is an Environmental Issue
Mar 12, 2022
Our Planet is On Fire, but the Supreme Court Might Throw Away the Extinguisher
Mar 05, 2022
Build Broadway Better
Feb 27, 2022
Is California’s Carbon Credit System a Failure?
Feb 19, 2022
What’s Next for Eel River Dams?
Feb 13, 2022
Talking TOUGH With the HUFF!
Feb 06, 2022
Massive Bird Declines Foretell a Silent Spring
Jan 31, 2022
How Can Nature Teach Us to be Better Humans, With Author Gary Ferguson
Jan 22, 2022
Year-End Wrap Up (We Ain’t Gonna Miss You, 2021)
Jan 15, 2022
How is Arcata Planning for Growth? Learn About the Gateway Area!
Jan 08, 2022
The Future of Humboldt's Nuclear Waste Site
Jan 01, 2022
Poet Jerry Martien Helps Soothe Your Soul this Solstice
Dec 26, 2021
Coming Soon — Camping by the Grand Canyon of the Eel River
Dec 18, 2021
Meet RCCER — Enviros Organize for Political Power
Dec 11, 2021
Enviros Challenge County Over Cannabis
Dec 06, 2021
Restoring Blue Lake’s Powers Creek, One of the County’s Most Significant Urban Streams
Nov 27, 2021
Celebrating the Hoopa Valley Tribe's Victory over the Westland Water District
Nov 20, 2021
Pomo Perspectives on Forest Protection at the Jackson State Forest
Nov 13, 2021
Kelp Collapse?
Nov 06, 2021
Forest Defenders Threatened at Jackson State Forest
Oct 23, 2021
Redistricting Ruckus
Oct 16, 2021
Broadway: Dangerous by Design?
Oct 09, 2021
Eel River Salmon Win Before FERC
Oct 03, 2021
What Smells at Stinky Beach?
Sep 18, 2021
Dirty Coal Coming to Town?!
Sep 11, 2021
Walking in the Footsteps of Roosevelt and Muir
Sep 05, 2021
An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation
Aug 30, 2021
The Climate Crisis is Here
Aug 21, 2021
Coastal Cleanup Month
Aug 07, 2021
To Save an Owl, We Kill an Owl?
Aug 01, 2021
Charting a Course for Offshore Wind
Jul 24, 2021
How Can Enviro Voters Increase their Power?
Jul 17, 2021
Clam Beach Pollution Mystery Solved?
Jul 10, 2021
A Victory for Summer Steelhead
Jul 03, 2021
Rep. Jared Huffman on Dams, Wild Places and the State of the North Coast Environment on Capitol Hill
Jun 26, 2021
Is Your Fish Safe to Eat?
Jun 17, 2021
The Bundy Bunch Crash the Klamath (and Other News)
Jun 13, 2021
Enviros Cheer Caltrans? Last Chance Grade Planning Gets High Marks from EcoNews
Jun 05, 2021
It Sounds Great on Paper: The 30x30 Movement
May 29, 2021
Salmon’s Struggle in the Shasta
May 24, 2021
ECONEWS REPORT: From Pulp Mill to Salmon Farm? Examining Nordic AquaFarms’ Proposed Fish Factory
May 15, 2021
Protecting the ‘Grand Canyon’ of the Eel River
May 09, 2021
May = Bike Month Humboldt
May 01, 2021
How Will Sea Level Rise Affect California?
Apr 24, 2021
Redwood Creek Still Struggling from 1970s Logging Pollution
Apr 17, 2021
Lawless Logging on Six Rivers National Forest
Apr 10, 2021
Friends of the Eel River Force FERC to Comply with the Endangered Species Act
Apr 03, 2021
Cars, Trains and Automobiles — Transportation Planning in Humboldt County
Mar 28, 2021
Learn to Be a Good Activist (and Avoid Burnout) with the NEC!
Mar 20, 2021
The Trinity Alps' Last Glacier
Mar 13, 2021
Food Waste Fuels Climate Change
Mar 06, 2021
How will Humboldt Reach 100% Clean, Renewable Energy?
Feb 27, 2021
What's Next for Wolves on the West Coast?
Feb 20, 2021
Busting Myths about the Klamath Dam Removal
Feb 13, 2021
What's Next for Rep. Huffman's Wilderness Bill?
Feb 06, 2021
Humboldt's First National Landmark
Feb 04, 2021
What Can the August Complex Tell Us About the Fires of the Future?
Jan 23, 2021
The Sagebrush Rebellion and the Sacking of the Capitol
Jan 16, 2021
The Future of Jackson State Forest
Jan 09, 2021
2020 in Hindsight
Jan 03, 2021
2020 Humboldt County Environmental Roundup
Dec 27, 2020
Biden’s First 100 Days
Dec 19, 2020
Are Toxic Tires Killing Salmon?
Dec 12, 2020
The Blue-Sky Thinking Episode
Dec 06, 2020
Let’s Talk About Broadway
Nov 21, 2020
Election Post-Mortem
Nov 14, 2020
Is Justice Amy Coney Barrett a Threat to the Environment?
Nov 02, 2020
New Zealand Mudsnails Invade the Mad River
Oct 24, 2020
Real Talk about the Green New Deal
Oct 19, 2020
Local Fire Ecologist Lenya Quinn-Davidson on This Year’s Record Fire Season
Oct 10, 2020
Obi Kaufmann Paints the Forests of California and Tells Their Stories
Sep 27, 2020
Blue Lake Rancheria Finds Toxic Algae in the Lower Mad River
Sep 25, 2020
Interpreting the Parks
Sep 20, 2020
This Year, Coastal Cleanup Day Lasts all Month
Sep 12, 2020
Building Cities for People, not Cars
Sep 02, 2020
Dog Ranch Dunes Saved from Development
Aug 22, 2020
How to Become a Community Scientist with iNaturalist
Aug 16, 2020
News Round-up: Billboards, Birdwatching, and the Trump Administration’s Attack on Federal Environmental Laws
Aug 10, 2020
What Will the Next Plan for the Northwest’s Forests Look Like?
Aug 02, 2020
A State of the Klamath Update: A Spirited Discussion on What That Big Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Decision Means
Jul 26, 2020
A Proposed New Central Valley Dam Could Have Big Impacts on the Trinity River
Jul 19, 2020
Interview with a Forest Defender
Jul 12, 2020
The State of the Klamath River
Jul 05, 2020
The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of Abalone with Author Ann Vileisis
Jun 27, 2020
Why Spring- and Summer-Run Salmonids are So Damn Interesting and Weird
Jun 20, 2020
Kristen Lark of the Six River National Forest’s Mad River Ranger District
Jun 13, 2020
Removing the Eel River's Scott Dam
Jun 09, 2020
Humboldt Naturalist John Griffith
May 24, 2020
Dams, Billboards, Wildfire Smoke, and Humboldt Fishers
May 17, 2020
An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation
May 10, 2020
Welcome to the Wonderful New World of Electric Bicycles!
May 04, 2020
Backyard Birding for the Bored!
Apr 26, 2020
Humboldt’s Climate Action Plan, With County Planner Connor McGuigan
Apr 14, 2020
21st Century Victory Gardens
Apr 05, 2020
Congressman Jared Huffman on the Federal COVID-19 Response
Mar 25, 2020
Let’s Talk About Transportation Emissions
Mar 14, 2020
How Can We Be Happy, Healthy, Effective Activists and People?
Mar 07, 2020
The Wildlands Conservancy Protects Valuable California Ecology by Buying it Up
Mar 01, 2020
Local Hugo-Award Winning Author Becky Chambers Talks About Her Worlds and This One
Feb 23, 2020
Dead Billboards, the Great Redwood Trail and More!
Feb 16, 2020
Monte Merrick, Wildlife Rescuer, Tells Us About His Work and Offers Some Tips
Feb 09, 2020
Lessons From Terra-Gen, a Failed Wind Energy Project
Feb 06, 2020
How Can We Make the Outdoors an Inclusive Space?
Jan 25, 2020
What Does ‘Urbanism’ Mean in a Place Like Humboldt County?
Jan 19, 2020
How Does Our Electric Grid Actually Work?
Jan 12, 2020
Are Humboldt Bay King Tides a Harbinger of Sea Level Rise?
Jan 04, 2020
Removing the Eel River Dams
Dec 30, 2019
Poet Jerry Martien Helps Soothe Your Soul this Solstice
Dec 21, 2019
Zero Waste Humboldt and what it really means to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
Dec 15, 2019
Wiyot Tribal Representatives Talk About Their Objections to the Terra-Gen Wind Project
Dec 07, 2019
Here Comes the Electric Vehicle Parade!
Nov 24, 2019
‘We Cannot Move Fast Enough on This’
Nov 17, 2019
Is Your Pot Killing Northern Spotted Owls?
Nov 10, 2019
Living Through a Firestorm, with Jon Humboldt Gates
Nov 03, 2019
Where’s the Mercury in Humboldt Bay Coming From?
Oct 27, 2019
Massive Bird Declines Foretell a Silent Spring
Oct 20, 2019
The Klamath River is a Person, My Friend
Oct 13, 2019
Trump’s Cartoon Supervillains and Their Surprising Ally in Gov. Gavin Newsom
Oct 06, 2019
Let’s Not Deify People, Even If They’re Awesome Activists Like Greta Thunberg
Sep 29, 2019
What Can Tsunamis Teach Us About Combating Climate Change?
Sep 22, 2019
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And We’re SO DEPRESSED)
Sep 15, 2019
They’re Back! Your Loveable Environmental Curmudgeons Have a New Show
Sep 08, 2019