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Governor Newsom claimed the legislation is “a landmark budget bill package that cuts red tape, fast-tracks housing and infrastructure, and improves affordability for all Californians.”
Environmental News
The controversial budget bills exempt nine types of project including “water infrastructure.”
Environmental News
At the top of the list of his “priority projects” is the Delta Tunnel.
Environmental News
Bill Wells, Executive Director of the California Delta Chambers and Visitors Bureau, emphasized the enormous impact that building the Delta Tunnel would have on the region’s recreational economy.
Environmental News
Delta advocates celebrated the vote to reject the Governor’s trailer bill language, but noted that the Delta Tunnel proposals may return in policy committees later this year.
Politics & Government
SB 540 also repeals Enron-era protections against price gouging – Public Utilities Code Section 345 – which requires electricity supplies be maximized and prices be minimized.
Environmental News
DWR will have spent nearly $1 billion on various iterations of tunnel project planning, with projected construction costs exceeding $20 billion before inflation or unforeseen expenses.
Environmental News
Bill backers vowed to do everything that can to make sure that the bill passes in light of the massive oil industry spending to stop the bill
Environmental News
Data from the Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Review of 2024 Ocean Salmon Fisheries documents the salmon’s return to the Klamath above the former dam sites.
Environmental News
This act was the first bill Congressman Carbajal introduced as a Member of Congress, according to an announcement from his office.
Environmental News
They say the bill “would accelerate the Delta Conveyance Project, otherwise known as the Delta Tunnel, and eliminate critical environmental reviews for the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan.”
Environmental News
Why is Chevron able to get away with its sordid record of human rights violations, environmental devastation and complicity with genocide?