Keeping Watch for Clean Water
On Thursday, May 29th, 2025, twenty-four volunteers joined representatives from Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, Island Packers, Santa Barbara Adventure Company, and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation to clear approximately1,400 pounds of trash and fishing gear from Yellowbanks, a stretch of cobble beach on the south side of Santa Cruz Island, and Driftwood Cove on Anacapa Island. During… Read more
A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit on April 15, 2025, challenging state waivers granted to a Texas oil company for the restart of a defective pipeline on the California Coast – the same pipeline that ruptured near Refugio Beach in 2015 and caused oneof the worst oil spills in California history.The lawsuit filed… Read more
Channelkeeper is thrilled to announce that the Watershed Brigade, its community cleanup program, has successfully removed over 50,000 pounds of trash from the local environment. Since the program’s inception in 2020, the Watershed Brigade has empowered 2,067 community members across Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties to take direct action against pollution by cleaning up trash from beaches,… Read more
On Saturday, April 20th, twenty-five volunteers with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and members of the commercial fishing community and Tidy Seas worked together to remove more than fifty lobster traps that had washed ashore between Goleta Beach and More Mesa. This is the fourth year of shoreline cleanup collaborations for Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and the Commercial Fishermen of… Read more
On April 9, 2024, the Santa Barbara City Council voted in favor of improving the City of Santa Barbara’s Cruise Ship Program with measures to limit the number of ships calling on Santa Barbara and prioritize those ships with advanced pollution prevention technology and solid environmental compliance records. By a vote of six to one, the… Read more