EHL was quoted by the media on Riverside, Orange, and San Diego County issues.

The Fallbrook Bonsall Village News ("Widening of SR76 east of 15 reduced," Nov. 20, 2007) reported on the decision by the San Diego Association of Governments to keep SR 76 east of Highway 15 a two-lane rural road. EHL’s meeting with SANDAG staff was referenced in the story.

Rancho Guejito was covered in depth by the North County Times on March 2, 2008 ("The battle for the Guejito: Pristine ranch nearly the size of Escondido is a saga of money, intentions"). EHL Executive Director Dan Silver was quoted, saying, "I'd welcome the opportunity to sit down and talk with [the owners] and try to understand their goals for the ranch," and – concerning the fact that they are not willing sellers – "It's too bad because to turn the land over for preservation would be a wonderful legacy for the [Coates] family." The article also noted the "strange bedfellows" of County Supervisor Bill Horn and EHL both working to preserve the ranch.

Indeed, on March 21, 2008 ("Horn says he wants to save Guejito ranch"), the San Diego Union-Tribune reported on a major speech in which Supervisor Horn outlined plans to seek funding for the ranch. In response, Silver said, "It sounds like Mr. Horn is advancing the discussion. It's commendable, and we support him."

In related news, the North County Times ("Rancho Guejito: Goats prompt new development fears," April 23, 2008) disclosed the presence of large numbers of goats on the property. Silver described the potential severe damage to native vegetation and noted, "But it certainly seems like now they're trying to remove habitat as a prelude to development."

In news on the proposed Foothill toll road, the Los Angeles Times ("O.C. tollway veto means another project must be substituted, planners say," March 7, 2008) quoted EHL staff attorney Michael Fitts on the toll road agency’s contention that elimination of the road from the regional transportation plan would disrupt its compliance with federal standards: "This project has been determined to have violated state environmental law, and it can't remain in the transportation plan . . . The notion that funding for the entire region's transportation system is somehow jeopardized is utterly false, because there are many ways to fix and amend the plan."

Fitts also explained to Los Angeles Times readers ("Tollway still 'in the planning,' OCTA chairman says," March 28, 2008) how wrong the Orange County Transportation Authority’s decision was to study only those alternatives for improving Interstate 5 that include the highly uncertain toll road: "For purely political reasons, the Transportation Authority doesn't seem to want to evaluate future transportation ideas with realistic options." In the same article, he also criticized a new proposal – termed "shadow tolls" – to use taxpayer dollars to subsidize the supposedly self-supporting toll roads.

On April 3, 2008, the San Diego Union-Tribune published a letter from EHL’s Silver countering that newspaper’s editorial praising Governor Schwarzenegger for dismissing two Parks Commission members who defended San Onofre State Beach. The letter pointed out the devastating impacts to parkland from the road.

When the Army Corps of Engineers wrote about false statements made by the toll road agency that misrepresented its position on alternatives, the Union-Tribune ("Feds say they were misled on toll road," April 11, 2008) turned to EHL for comment: "We have said for a long time that there are viable alternatives to this project that don't destroy the park," said Dan Silver, executive director of the Endangered Habitats League in Los Angeles.

On March 23, 2008 ("Residents wary of tribal annexation plans to build casino"), the Riverside Press Enterprise covered the application by the Soboba Tribe to bring a private parcel it owns in San Jacinto under tribal control. Silver commented upon flaws in the federal environmental review process, which "essentially eliminates important environmental safeguards intended to protect some of California's most sensitive and imperiled natural habitats."