By Chaewon Chung | December 23, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee
Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against Sacramento County over a solar project that would eliminate up to 3,500 native and blue oak trees from the county’s last remaining intact woodlands.
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By Tom Philp | December 15, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee
For months, Sacramento County has been advancing a 25,000-resident community north of downtown in Natomas without a confirmed water supply. Its new solution is a supply that was slashed by 82% in the last drought, yet the county is assuming that the ugly effects of modern-day climate change will never happen again.
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By Jake Goodrick | November 20, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee
While the Sacramento project that had advanced the most stalled this summer after strongly-worded pushback from city officials, stewards of the Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan — a 50-year effort to build in the basin while preserving habitat for its native species — wonder whether the agreement can endure the county’s unexpected influx of construction. Only so much land exists in the basin for the conservancy to protect its required part, which Roberts said could not happen if the county’s developments were to move forward. “No more of this. It’s a complete end to this.” Roberts said, waving to the intricately carved dirt lot, seeing the wetlands to take its place. “We’re certain that we cannot implement any more of the (habitat plan) if these developments take place. And we’re not equivocal about that. We’re resolute.”
By Riley Palmer | Thursday, November 20, 2025 | Capradio
Sacramento City Council weighed the merits of a large industrial development in North Natomas on Tuesday as environmentalists, developers and laborers argued for or against the controversial project.
The development, known as Airport South Industrial, would annex approximately 450 acres of protected land for warehouses into the city of Sacramento, south of the Metro Air Parkway and west of the Westlake neighborhood in Natomas.
By Chaewon Chung | October 30, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee
“‘When SMUD was first approached in 2021 about this project and asked to sign a power purchase agreement, they were told that this project was going to be built on bare, rocky ground … This is not bare rocky ground,'” – Sean Wirth, Co-chair of the ECOS Habitat Committee
By The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board | November 17, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District — SMUD — has made a mistake it is unable to extricate itself from: A lack of due diligence surrounding the site of a potential energy project by outside developer D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) has put more than 1,400 acres — and 3,700 native oak trees — at risk of destruction for a solar array that critics say was poorly planned.
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