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The wildfires that affected San Diego County in California saw public safety agencies, nonprofit organizations and communication systems provide emergency information to the public and handle calls for evacuation and other information sharing activities. Other details on information sharing during the disaster are discussed.

Just before noon on October 21, 2003, a fire broke out in the practice range at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in San Diego County, CA. As the threat to […]

An environmental group that has fought a proposed quarry on Rosemary's Mountain near Pala for years has lost a battle over the project's environmental-impact report. A state appeals court has [...]

Environmental issues of concern in California, Nevada and along the United States-Mexico border are the focus of NWF's newest field office in San Diego. NWF will work with local organizations [...]

Out of adversity comes opportunity. Local landscaping companies and nurseries say the region's drought, which has prompted water restrictions, has spurred demand for lawn and garden conversions, as well as [...]

Close calls, unconventional guests and little sleep. It was not business as usual last week at the backcountry casinos and resorts operated by San Diego County's American Indian tribes. Some [...]

Of the 160 Albertsons, Food 4 Less, Ralphs and Vons grocery stores in San Diego County, only five were closed at any one time during last week's wildfires, said store [...]

New legislation that curbs wastewater dumping by cruise ships along the California coast was forged as a compromise between the cruise line industry and environmental groups. The two-bill package introduced [...]

Ducheny Claims Illegal Dumping in Tia Juana Valley Assemblywoman Denise Moreno Ducheny, D-San Diego, has charged that inappropriate dumping by Disney Enterprises on the Tia Juana River flood banks is [...]

Community Giving: On Oct. 24, the fourth day of the Southern California wildfires, retail businesses such as the Westfield Group and Mossy Ford joined community efforts to give. In response [...]

Scientists countywide shut down their labs and hung up their coats last week as a precautionary measure to avoid danger from last week's wildfires, which scorched hundreds of thousands of [...]

Trees, bushes and groundcover that help conserve water and can actually slow the spread of fire? Such species really do exist and a great many are native to California. San [...]

Settling: Atlantic Richfield Co. and BP West Coast Products LLC have paid $3 million in penalties and costs and will spend another $1 million for environmental projects to settle a [...]

Proposition 65 lawsuits are giving headaches to some San Diego apartment owners. The measure, which passed in 1986, was intended to notify customers when they were exposed to carcinogens and [...]

San Diego EarthWorks, a network of volunteers promoting a healthy, prosperous, and sustainable future, is organizing its third annual GreenBuilt Tour to showcase homes and businesses that demonstrate sustainable building [...]

Planning for our future will take on a new meaning as we enter the next millennium. In San Diego County, we currently import approximately 90 percent of our water along [...]

Some 10 miles of beaches in San Diego County, CA, closed down after 24 million gallons of untreated sewage were spilled into the ocean by a broken sewer pipeline in Tijuana, Mexico. Although the broken pipeline was speedily repaired, it again brought into focus the impact of Mexican pollution on the US. Construction of a $383-million international wastewater treatment plant and ocean outfall will start in June 1994 to boost Tijuana's wastewater treatment capability and stop cross-border sewage overflows.

Facing strong opposition from the County Water Authority, the county Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 last week to delay until December 1992 granting a permit for a new sand-mining operation [...]