San Diego County Democrats for Environmental Action

04/25/2026

🌍 Announcement! Save the Dates! 🌍

Friends of Solana Beach Library Announces it's “Civic Series”
https://mailchi.mp/sdenvirodems.com/0606-june-events-santaysabelhike-rewildmissionbay-enviroreport-opposecottonwoodsandmine-8338418

Session One: Jump into Local Government
April 21, 2026 5:30 - 6:45 PM

Session Two: Think Global Act Local
May 19, 2026 5:30 - 6:45 PM

Session Three: "Show Me the Money"
June 16, 2026 5:30 - 6:45 PM

04/22/2026

Happy Earth Day! In times like these we need to double down on our commitment for a healthy, sustainable world!

04/14/2026

Finally, some good environmental news in our own backyard! Thank you Senator Steve Padilla for your leadership on this!
https://www.kpbs.org/news/environment/2026/04/10/californias-largest-and-most-polluted-lake-gets-a-new-conservancy

04/13/2026

Don't be gaslighted by the bureaucratic terms being used by Trump's Department of Agriculture. There's nothing benign about the proposed "reorganization" of the U.S. Forest Service, which is intended as a death knell for the agency's decades of institutional knowledge and rigorous scientific capabilities with the closing of 58 of its research facilities and all 10 regional offices. Our congressional representatives must hold investigations immediately! There is no need for any of this! NO "REORGANIZATION" OF THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE!

The restructuring will close all regional offices, which manages 193m acres of land, roughly the size of Texas

04/07/2026

Hey Enviro. Dems., we need your help TODAY as it's the last day for comments to oppose the Trump Interior Department's proposed rollbacks to Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which is serving as a test run for using criminally short comment periods (seven days — they're usually three months) to run roughshod over environmental protections on protected public lands! Please take action IMMEDIATELY via this Climate Hawks Vote portal from club friend and supporter RL Miller.

🚨 The Trump administration has begun its process to open public lands in the Greater Chaco Landscape to reckless oil and gas drilling. If the Department of the Interior moves forward with its proposal, new oil and gas leasing and development will be allowed within 10 miles of the park’s boundar...

03/23/2026

Which San Diego-area demonstration of democracy will you participate in this Saturday? Of course we have the big one at Waterfront Park/downtown San Diego, but we are being seen and uplifting our movement across the county! (also, not pictured in this map: Borrego Springs)
https://www.nokings.org/

12/25/2025

Wishing you all a joyous holiday season!

12/14/2025

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has recommended threatened status for several genetically-distinct mountain lion groups, from the Santa Cruz Mountains to the Santa Monica, San Gabriel, San Bernardino, and Santa Ana ranges here in Southern California. Habitat fragmentation, fatal freeway crossings, rat poison, and development that traps big cats in increasingly smaller pockets of habitat continues to denude mountain lion diversity and overall populations.

Local mountain lions are struggling due to development and urban sprawl.

12/12/2025

Join us this Saturday for holiday season joy among enviro friends at San Elijo Lagoon!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/san-diego-county-democrats-for-environmental-action-holiday-party-tickets-1862591684869

10/13/2025

Join and tens of thousands of San Diegans this Saturday, October 18 as we rise up and give voice to an America rooted in democratic ideals and a rule of law. events are planned all across the county, including downtown San Diego where we saw over 60,000 marchers in June.

ARE YOU READY FOR NO KINGS? SHARE Across social media to spread the word! https://social.demcast.com/toolkit/nokings-0549

10/07/2025

“We’ll be the first to see the ice-free peaks,” said Andrew Jones, the study’s lead author and a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “This has ecological implications for plants and animals.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/07/california-sierra-nevada-glaciers

New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century

10/02/2025

The groundbreaking zoologist and conservationist died at 91 of natural causes, the institute named after her announced Oct. 1.