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L.A. Times - Environment
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Headlines from Los Angeles Times
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Going for green travel in San Diego
Putting eco-friendliness to the test, we discover that the city passes with its trolleys but fails in affordable hotel options.
Our mission -- beyond celebrating our 22nd wedding anniversary -- was to spend a weekend in San Diego in as eco-friendly a manner as we could, given two realities. One: Southern California's transportation system was designed by car salesmen. Two: We're really cheap.
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Revised rules at marine sanctuaries allow tow-in surfing at Mavericks
During high-surf advisory days, watercraft can be used at the famous riding spot in the Monterey Bay marine sanctuary. Other regulations are altered at the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank sanctuaries.
After seven years of soul-searching, federal officials on Thursday agreed to allow tow-in surfing at California's most famous big-wave riding spot, known as Mavericks, as part of a major expansion of federal rules governing three marine sanctuaries.
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Bush angers environmentalists with last-minute rule changes
Many of the 'midnight regulations' open wilderness for oil and gas drilling, and loosen environmental safeguards. President Bush has pushed 53 through in three weeks, researchers say.
As the hour grows late, President Bush, like many chief executives before him, seems to hear the call of the wild.
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Appeals court rules against Arctic drilling plan
In a 2-1 decision, the court orders a more thorough environmental review of the proposed offshore oil drilling project's effect on fish and endangered bowhead whales.
The Bush administration's authorization of a major new offshore oil drilling program in the Arctic Ocean was dealt a serious setback Thursday when a federal appeals court ruled the plan did not adequately consider the effect on bowhead whales and the native villagers who make their living from the frigid coastal waters.
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California leads fight against climate change on global level
Gov. Schwarzenegger signs a pact with heads of other states and provinces to cut greenhouse emissions. 'We have got to do something worldwide here,' he says.
California formally moved to spread its can-do global warming gospel around the world, signing a declaration Wednesday with 11 other U.S. states and provinces or states in five other countries to help them slash their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Los Angeles Zoo elephant debate takes over City Council meeting
Officials, experts and Bob Barker weigh in on whether elephants do well in captivity.
The Los Angeles Zoo's controversial pachyderm exhibit was hardly the proverbial elephant in the room Wednesday during a packed L.A. City Council meeting.
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Nike, Starbucks call for climate policies, renewable energy
Firms and investor group back emissions cuts, renewable energy.
Nike Inc., Starbucks Corp., Levi Strauss & Co. and two other U.S. companies called Wednesday for aggressive policies to limit global warming to help rescue the country from an economic crisis.
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Obama's video message energizes climate conference
President-elect tells delegates gathered in L.A. to debate tactics for reducing planet-warming pollution that his administration will help lead way to 'a new era of global cooperation.'
President-elect Barack Obama sent an explicit message Tuesday to international negotiators of a new global warming treaty that, under his administration, the U.S would move to slash its own greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% by mid-century, and "help lead the world toward a new era of global cooperation on climate change."
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EPA moves to relax clean air rules near national parks
The Environmental Protection Agency is completing new air quality rules that will make it easier to build coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other major polluters near national parks and wilderness areas, despite the fact that half of the EPA's 10 regional administrators have formally dissented from the decision and another four have criticized the move in writing.
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Firefighters making progress on wildfires as residents return to homes -- or rubble
The Chino Hills evacuation order is lifted. Officials are keeping tabs on the weather, but the Tea fire is 95% contained; Sayre fire, 70%; and Freeway Complex fire, 75%.
Winds remained calm today and the air started to clear, allowing firefighters to make more headway against wildfires that have burned through Southern California.
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