On February 16, 2021, Green Foothills joined 40 federal, state and local elected officials and 16 other environmental organizations in requesting the Biden administration to withdraw the appeal of the district court’s ruling in our favor against the Trump administration over the Cargill salt ponds. In 2019, the Trump administration attempted to declare the Cargill...
On September 24, Committee for Green Foothills, together with 3 other environmental groups, filed suit against the Trump administration over its actions in giving up Clean Water Act jurisdiction over the Cargill salt ponds in Redwood City. “We’re not going to stand by while Cargill uses the Trump administration’s eagerness to gut our environmental laws...
Seven years ago, we stopped plans by agribusiness giant Cargill to build a massive new city of 30,000 people on top of the Redwood City salt ponds – historic San Francisco Bay wetlands that provide crucial habitat to tens of thousands of migratory shorebirds, and offer the region’s best opportunity for restoring San Francisco Bay....
“The immensity of man’s power to destroy imposes a responsibility to preserve.” U.S. Congressman John F. Lacey, House Committee on the Public Lands Chair (1901) In early December, President Trump announced that he was sharply reducing the size of two national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase – Escalante. It was the largest rollback of...
As you may have heard, new coastal marine sanctuaries and monuments (designated or expanded in the past 10 years) are currently under review by the federal government in an effort to expand offshore oil and gas drilling. Please join me in speaking up for our coast by August 14. What You Can Do 1. Tell...
“The coast is never saved. It is always being saved.” – Peter Douglas, past Executive Director of the California Coastal Commission WHAT’S HAPPENING? Threats to the California coast are nothing new. For over 40 years, California’s 1976 Coastal Act has held back a steady stream of development threats – successfully preserving sweeping coastlines, protecting sensitive...
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