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Environmental Defense Center

Non-Profits & Religious Organizations
@environmentaldefensecenter
Defending nature and advancing environmental justice on California’s Central Coast through advocacy and legal action.
  • Spirituality & Religion
  • Following 1.4K
  • Followers 16.2K
  • Engagement 0.7%
  • Avg comments 4

About Environmental Defense Center

Environmental Defense Center (@environmentaldefensecenter) is a Non-Profits & Religious Organizations creator on Instagram, also filed under Spirituality & Religion. The account has 16,201 followers and 633 published posts. Recent posts average 115 likes and 4 comments, an engagement rate of 0.7%.

With 16.2K followers, Environmental Defense Center is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Environmental Defense Center follows 1,400 accounts, so the audience is roughly 12 times the size of the list followed. Environmental Defense Center is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Environmental Defense Center under Non-Profits & Religious Organizations, with Spirituality & Religion as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for Environmental Defense Center runs to 15 words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Environmental Defense Center dates from August 2025.

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633 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Environmental Defense Center, 4 are single images, 3 are carousels and 3 are videos. No single format accounts for most of them. Environmental Defense Center has built a substantial archive of 633 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 26 followers for each post published. Environmental Defense Center also keeps 6 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 128 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include california, pipeline, refugio, protect and spill. The captions tag #stopsable, #getoilout, #805action, #ourfuture and #hope.

Tickets are going fast but it’s not too late to join us at Green & Blue, our annual event on Sunday, June 7th. Around 500 guests will enjoy food by, wine from, beer from, live music from, and silent and live auctions full of unique items! We are honored to present our Environmental Hero Award to Valerie Olson for her work with the and our Next Gen Environmental Hero Award to Coalition!

🎟️Tickets are available through the link in our bio.
Sliding scale tickets are available by emailing.

See you there!
🦦 Happy World Otter Day from EDC!

We’ve been fighting for these little guys for a long time — and we’re not stopping. When commercial fishing groups challenged the federal decision to end California’s decades-long “no-otter zone,” we intervened, took it to court, and won. Southern sea otters are now reclaiming their historic range and restoring the kelp forests they depend on. 🌿🌊

Fun reminder: these are keystone species — without them, entire kelp forest ecosystems collapse. They also eat 25% of their body weight every day.

Here’s to the otters, and to the work still ahead. 💙
📢BE PART OF SOMETHING FUN & MAKE A DIFFERENCE📢

Green & Blue: A Coastal Celebration, is our biggest fundraiser of the year, taking place in the beautiful gardens at Rancho La Patera & Stow House in Goleta, CA, and we need some volunteer help to make it happen! Each year, this event brings together around 600 guests from across the tri-county region to celebrate the many accomplishments this organization has achieved over our years and help raise critical funds to ensure EDC remains strong to protect this region for those who love it now and those who will follow in our footsteps. More the 50 volunteers help our staff pull this event together and make it run smoothly. We’d love to have you join us!

Please email.
Summer is almost here — and we’re celebrating in style! 🐋🥂 tgif! is BACK for 2026 and we want to see you there! Join us at the EDC Courtyard (906 Garden Street, Santa Barbara) for an evening of live music, food, drinks, raffle prizes, and good company — all while supporting environmental protection on the Central Coast. 🌊🌿

📅 Save the dates: July 10 | Sept. 18 | Oct. 9
🕠 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
🎟️ $20 includes entry + 2 drinks

Want the full experience? Grab a VIP Season Pass for $95 and get access to all three events, a commemorative tgif! wine glass, six raffle tickets per event, and a chance to win an overnight excursion in Cuyama Valley! 🏔️

🔗 Get your tickets at — link in bio!

Thank you to our 2026 tgif! Season Underwriters: Keller Rohrback Law Offices and Brighten Solar Co. 🙌
Paddle Out to Protect Our Coast 🌊🛶 | Two days before the 11th anniversary of the Plains All American Oil Spill, environmental advocates, students, Tribal leaders, and community members gathered at Refugio Beach to commemorate the disaster and stand up for our coastline. Together, they paddled out with a clear message: no new offshore drilling in California waters, and no continuation of Sable's oil operations along the Gaviota Coast. 🐟🌿 The ocean remembers — and so do we.

Thanks to our partners who helped make the event happen:
Surfrider Foundation (Santa Barbara County Chapter and UCSB Student Club), Environmental Defense Center, Center for Biological Diversity, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, Sierra Club, Fearless Grandmothers, UCSB Environmental Affairs Board, Oceana, CFROG, and Get Oil Out!

📸:
🌊 11 years ago, a corroded pipeline devastated our coastline. Today, that same pipeline is being restarted — and we're fighting back.

May 19th marks the 11th anniversary of the Plains Oil Spill at Refugio Beach, one of the largest environmental disasters in California history. Oil spread 150 miles down the coast, poisoning marine habitats and wildlife. The pipeline responsible? Sable Offshore has restarted it.

And the threat doesn't stop there. The Trump administration is also pushing to open California's coast to new offshore oil leasing and development and wants to allow fracking right here in the Santa Barbara Channel.

The fight is not over. EDC remains committed to protecting our coastline.

"This is one of the most precious ecological systems on the planet, and we have to protect it." — Linda Krop, EDC Chief Counsel
Never forget.

On May 19, 2015, 11 years ago, the Las Floras Pipeline burst. 142,000+ gallons of oil spilled into the Pacific.
Estimates reach a cost of $870,000,000.

And oil is flowing again. We need to stand together to protect our coastline. For future generations. This isn’t political, this is self-defense. #stopsable #getoilout #805action #ourfuture #hope
On the 11th anniversary of the Refugio Oil Spill, California is showing up:

➡️Attorney General — suing the Trump administration and seeking to halt the oil flow
➡️ California Coastal Commission — record $18M fine for unpermitted work
➡️ California State Parks — suing Sable for trespassing in Gaviota State Park
➡️ California State Lands Commission — moving to terminate Sable's offshore leases
➡️ Senator, Congressmember, — speaking out alongside Chumash leaders at Shoreline Park last week
➡️,, — filing to intervene in court
➡️ Coastal communities, tribes, and advocates — sent 72,000+ letters and are never backing down

Newsom called out Trump's pipeline lie in April. Now is the time to match the moment.

Eleven years after Refugio, Sable is pumping oil through a corroded pipeline in open defiance of a court order. California has every tool available; let's use them all.
11 years ago today, on May 19th, 2015, the severely corroded Las Flores Pipeline, owned by Plains All American at the time, burst and spewed over 142,000 gallons of oil polluting more than 150 miles of our coastline, killing marine life, devastating fishing and recreational industries, and harming the local economy. The estimated cost of this disaster was more than $870,000,000.

11 years later, oil is flowing through the very same pipeline. This time, it is owned and operated by Houston-based Sable Offshore – a company with $18 million dollars in outstanding fines from the Coastal Commission, 21 federal criminal charges, numerous injunctions, and a blatant disregard for California state laws and regulatory agencies.

On Sunday, to commemorate the anniversary of this tragic spill, over 100 community members, youth leaders, students, organizations, and more came out to Refugio State Beach. We heard from powerful guest speakers, paddled out into the water, and reminded ourselves of the value and importance of protecting our natural spaces from corporate greed and recklessness.

Join us as we stand together to protect our coastline. For our oceans. For our community. For our future.

Drone credit: Jimmy Young
Our team was some of the first people at the scene of the Plains Oil Spill 10 years ago at Refugio State Beach. Devastated, we watched wave after wave of thick oil crash onto the beach, a nauseating stench filling the air. It was one of the worst oil disasters in California history. Now, as crazy as it sounds, a Texas company, Sable, wants to restart the same failed pipeline. This is the biggest threat to our coast and so far, it has advanced without environmental review or public input as required by law. In this must-read article our Chief Counsel, Linda Krop, and Santa Barbara resident and activist Julia Louis-Dreyfus sound the alarm. It’s not too late to stop this project, but we need Newsom to speak up and do the right thing: publicly oppose this project and ensure state agencies will conduct environmental review and public hearings as required by the law.

🔗 to read full article in our bio

Environmental Defense Center's engagement

Environmental Defense Center's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.7%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 143 followers. An average post collects 115 likes and 4 comments, close to 29 likes for each comment.

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0.7%

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Avg comments
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Who is Environmental Defense Center?

Environmental Defense Center (@environmentaldefensecenter) is a Non-Profits & Religious Organizations creator on Instagram, also filed under Spirituality & Religion. Environmental Defense Center is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Environmental Defense Center runs to 15 words.

How many followers does Environmental Defense Center have?

Environmental Defense Center has 16,201 followers on Instagram (16.2K). Environmental Defense Center follows 1,400 accounts, so the audience is roughly 12 times the size of the list followed. Environmental Defense Center has built a substantial archive of 633 posts.

What is Environmental Defense Center's engagement rate?

Environmental Defense Center's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.7%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 143 followers. An average post collects 115 likes and 4 comments, close to 29 likes for each comment.

What does Environmental Defense Center post about on Instagram?

Flinque files Environmental Defense Center under Non-Profits & Religious Organizations, with Spirituality & Religion as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Environmental Defense Center, 4 are single images, 3 are carousels and 3 are videos. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Environmental Defense Center repeatedly use the words california, pipeline, refugio, protect and spill. Environmental Defense Center's captions carry hashtags such as #stopsable, #getoilout and #805action. Environmental Defense Center writes those captions mainly in English. Environmental Defense Center keeps 6 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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