March 2025

THE ECONEWS REPORT: What is ‘Renewable Diesel’?

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Can Offshore Wind Retire Gas Plants?

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Trump Has Gutted NEPA. What Does That Mean?

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Where Does My Power Come From?

February 2025

Lake County May Try to Derail Eel River Dam Deal With Direct Appeal to President Trump

THE ECONEWS REPORT: The Makers of the New Documentary on Baduwa’t Tell Us Why They Told the River’s Story

THE ECONEWS REPORT: A Deal for the Eel?

TODAY in SUPES: Board OKs Agreement on Potter Valley Project Decommissioning and New Eel-Russian Diversion Facility

THE ECONEWS REPORT: What Does it Mean to be a Dark Sky Place, and Should Humboldt Become One?

Are the Eel River Dams Coming Down? PG&E Releases Final Decommissioning Plan and Will Give a Public Presentation About it Tomorrow

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Dissecting Trump’s First Week

January 2025

THE ECONEWS REPORT: International Climate Action in a Trump Era

The Yurok Tribe is Restoring Prairie Lands in its Ancestral Territory, and Here are the Hows and the Whys

THE ECONEWS REPORT: President Carter’s Environmental Legacy

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Green Burial — Thinking Outside the Coffin

December 2024

THE ECONEWS REPORT: The Continuing Problem of Black Market Cannabis Trespass Grows

THE ECONEWS REPORT: What Gives You Hope?

THE ECONEWS REPORT: A Geological Perspective on Last Week’s Quake

November 2024

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Solar is Coming to Hydesville!

Judge Tosses the Latest Injunction From Environmental Groups Over Caltrans’ Richardson Grove Improvement Project

State Awards $3.1 Million to Yurok Tribe for Prairie Creek Floodplain Restoration Project

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Election Recap — It Wasn’t All Bad!

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Proposed Wood Pellet Biofuel Project Draws Criticism

October 2024

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Nearly $46 Million for Ecosystem Restoration Projects in Klamath Basin

TODAY in SUPES: Board and Public Voice Concerns About Wood Pellet Biofuel Project; Sheriff Proposes Advisory Council in Lieu of Oversight Committee

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Is Humboldt a ‘Climate Refuge?’

To Atone for its Extensive Air Travel, Cal Poly Humboldt’s Administration Will Buy ‘Carbon Offsets’ From the City of Arcata’s Community Forest

First California Project to Bury Climate-Warming Gases Wins Key Approval

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Pre-Election Jitters, With Rep. Jared Huffman

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Lessons Learned in a Week Without Driving

Yurok Tribe Nabs $18M Grant, Resumes Revegetation Work Behind Former Klamath Dams

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Wolves are Returning to California

September 2024

THE ECONEWS REPORT: How Will Groundwater be Regulated After This Significant Court Ruling?

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Draft Climate Act Plan Released

Helicopter Logging … for the Environment! Mattole Restoration Council Project Will Remove 400 ‘Encroaching’ Doug Fir Trees in the Petrolia Area Next Week

THE ECONEWS REPORT: What If Measure F Passes?

GOOD FIRE: Prescribed Burns Planned in Northern Humboldt Over the Next Few Months

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Letting Go of Your Eco-Grief

Blue Lake Rancheria Nabs $12 Million EPA Pollution Reduction Grant; Funds Will be Used to Acquire and Restore Local Coastal and Forest Land, Feds Say

August 2024

You, Humboldt County Human, Are Invited to a Public Meeting on the Regional Climate Action Plan

Harbor District Board Orders Environmental Study of Billboard Rebuild Project

THE ECONEWS REPORT: How to Think About Fire (From a Fire Expert)

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Clean Water on the Ballot

An Environmental Dispute Over Kernen Construction is Tormenting a Glendale Neighborhood and Taking Up a Lot of Government Time

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Northwest Forest Plan at 30

Health Department Warns Swimmers to Stay Away From Toxic Blue-Green Algae at Local Rivers and Lakes

July 2024

THE ECONEWS REPORT: The Gang Goes to Norway

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Top 10 Questions About Offshore Wind

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Chevron Overturned: What It Means for Our Environment

Fire, Flood and Ice: Local Scientists Document Climate Threshold Crossed in the Klamath Mountains