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Business & Real Estate
California sees 11% decline in oil reserves, but still 5th most in U.S.
Environmental News
830,000 Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Fry Die from Gas Bubble Disease in Klamath River
By Dan Bacher | The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced Saturday morning that hundreds of thousands of fall-run Chinook salmon fry, released for the first time from its Fall Creek Fish Hatchery in Siskiyou County, are “presumed to have succumbed to gas bubble disease in the Klamath River”
Environmental News
Protests Against Delta Tunnel Change in Water Diversion Must Be Filed by April 29
2024 elections
Big Oil pumped $25.4 million into lobbying California officials in 2023
Elections
Big Gas and Big Oil spent a record $27 million lobbying in California in 2023!
The total oil and gas money spent on lobbying just for the first three quarters of 2023 was $21,973,138
Business & Real Estate
CA Resources Corporation Ploy To Buy Aera Energy Is Way To Avoid Plugging Idle Wells, Capture Carbon
An oil well can be financially self-sustaining by producing 2 barrels per day.
Environmental News
Senate Committee kills bill to end offshore oil drilling in CA as Big Oil sets new lobbying spending record
The two bills were killed at a time that lobbying spending by the oil industry has shattered records.
Environmental News
U.S. EPA Region 9: Bay-Delta Plan must include numeric flow criteria, adopt tribal beneficial uses
SACRAMENTO – The US EPA Region 9 has filed an administrative comment letter with the State Water Resources Control Board stating that the updated plan must include numeric water flow criteria and adopt Tribal Beneficial Uses. The comment responds to the Board’s Draft Staff Report for the Phase II Update
Current News
Governor Newsom unveils 2024 California budget as $16 billion Delta Tunnel project moves forward
Environmental News
Bill to End Offshore Oil Drilling in CA Waters Passes First Major Legislative Hurdle
Current News
It’s Final: No Delta Smelt Collected in CDFW Fall Midwater Trawl Survey for 6th Year
It’s final — For the sixth year in a row, no Delta Smelt have been collected in the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fall Midwater Trawl (FMWT) Survey in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta from September through December 2023. Once the most abundant species in the entire estuary,