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If Elk Grove residents get upset about fence regulations, wait until the city starts inspecting garbage cans for organic waste
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Report Exposes $11 Million Dark Money Ad Campaign by Big Oil in California by Dan Bacher
Business & Real Estate
California sees 11% decline in oil reserves, but still 5th most in U.S.
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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”
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Protests Against Delta Tunnel Change in Water Diversion Must Be Filed by April 29
Business & Real Estate
CA Resources Corporation Ploy To Buy Aera Energy Is Way To Avoid Plugging Idle Wells, Capture Carbon
By Dan Bacher
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Senate Committee kills bill to end offshore oil drilling in CA as Big Oil sets new lobbying spending record
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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
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Governor Newsom unveils 2024 California budget as $16 billion Delta Tunnel project moves forward
SACRAMENTO – At a widely-covered media last week, Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled his $291 billion proposed 2024-25 budget for the State of California as the state faces an expected $37.8 billion budget deficit. The budget draws $10 billion from the state’s budget reserves to address the deficit while Newsom
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Bill to End Offshore Oil Drilling in CA Waters Passes First Major Legislative Hurdle
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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,