August 2025

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Talking CEQA Reforms

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Electrifying Your Home is Cheaper Than You Think It Is, and You Can Find Out About It All at Tuesday’s Electrification Fair

At Virtual Public Meeting Last Night, PG&E Officials Outline Next Steps for Eel River Dam Removal

What’s Next for Eel River Dam Removal? Find Out at Today’s Virtual Town Hall Meeting!

THE ECONEWS REPORT: When Will the Eel River Dams Fall?

Lawsuit Could Force Humboldt County to Regulate Groundwater Pumping in the Eel River Valley

July 2025

THE ECONEWS REPORT: A New 353-Acre Reserve on Baduwa’t

PG&E Files Its Application to Surrender its Hydropower License, Paving the Way for the Removal of the Potter Valley Dams on the Eel River

‘Let’s Do This the Right Way’: Great Redwood Trail Agency Adopts a New Approach to Illegal Camping, Dumping Along the Defunct Railroad

Interested in Eel River Dam Removal? Mark Your Calendars, Because PG&E is Holding an Online Town Hall Meeting Next Month

Humboldt Supervisors OK Potter Valley Water Diversion Plan, Paving the Way for Eel River Dam Removal

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Batteries and Achieving 100 Percent Renewable Energy

THE ECONEWS REPORT: When Driving is Not An Option

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Potholes in the Forest Service Roadless Rule

June 2025

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Come Celebrate the Bay Trail!

Are Humboldt’s Ma-le’l Dunes Still at Risk Despite Changes to Federal Land-Sale Bill?

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Stopping the Spread of Golden Mussels

Indigenous Kids Are Kayaking the Entire Length of the Klamath River For the First Time Ever

THE ECONEWS REPORT: The Supreme Court and the National Environmental Policy Act

May 2025

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Is Offshore Wind Still on Humboldt’s Horizon?

New Study Shows Coho-Killing Toxin Pools in Humboldt County Parking Lots Before Draining Into the Bay

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Pope Francis’ Environmental Legacy

EPIC Comes Out in Favor of ‘Responsible’ Offshore Wind Development, Joins States in Legal Effort to Overturn Trump’s Offshore Wind Ban

This Summer, Let’s All Do Our Part to Keep These New, Nasty, Invasive, Infrastructure-Destroying Mussels Out of Ruth Lake

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Earthquake-Driven Subsidence Around Humboldt Bay

THE ECONEWS REPORT: New Timber Harvest Plan for Jackson State Forest

CDFW to Close Mad River Fish Hatchery Next Month, Citing Budgetary Woes and Aging Infrastructure

(PHOTOS) CalTrout Held a Photo Contest to Celebrate the Eel River, and Here Are Your Winning Entries

April 2025

CalTrout Acquires 175 Acres Along the Elk River, Returns Historic Site to Wiyot Tribe for Cultural Restoration

A Major Cascadia Zone Earthquake Could Cause Much of Coastal Humboldt to Rapidly Drop Into the Sea, New Study Finds

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Reviewing Trump’s First 100-ish Days

Here’s Why Travis Schneider’s Half-Built Mansion Has Yet to be Torn Down

Rep. Jared Huffman Responds to ‘Unprecedented’ Commercial Salmon Fishery Closure

THE ECONEWS REPORT: How Much of Measure O Should Go to Transit?

Farm Bureaus in Russian River Counties Issue Plea to President Trump to Keep the Potter Valley Dams in Place

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Local Officials to Discuss Next Steps for Redwood Creek Estuary Restoration at Tomorrow’s Community Meeting

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Coastal Commission Under Attack

March 2025

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Celebrating Klamath Dam Removal Through Art

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