Berkeley Green News

Environmental groups that oppose a proposed new dam on the Mokelumne River in the Sierra foothills have filed suit against East Bay MUD. According to the Chron, the lawsuit by the Foothill Conservancy, Friends of the River, and the California...

As if we did not have enough to worry about, a coalition of groups including the American Medical Association and Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, announced at a meeting in Washington this week that an unanticipated result...

The City Council put off a decision to ban balloon releases during city permitted events after a local company that sells them protested. The recommendation for the ban came from the city's environmental commission which said balloons kill dolphins, whales,...

Officials are releasing birds that were cleaned of oil that coated them after a spill in San Francisco Bay last month. In all, 49 oiled birds were collected in the days after the oil spilled from the Panamanian-flagged Dubai Star...

The collision happened about 6 p.m. near the Interstate 880 interchange. The collision closed down lane three in the eastbound direction...The California Highway Patrol is responding to the collision. The extent of the injuries and other details are unavailable.