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WOODLAND, Calif.— Five conservation groups filed a lawsuit on Dec. 20 against the controversial Sites Reservoir, the largest reservoir project approved in California in decades. This reservoir would harm the Sacramento River ecosystem and threaten already imperiled salmon and other fish species, the lawsuit contends. Represented by the Law Offices
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Just in time for the Christmas Holidays and the Winter Solstice, the Gavin Newsom administration on December 21 officially approved the embattled Delta Tunnel project and published the project’s Notice of Determination (NOD), drawing outrage from conservation and environmental justice organizations. “The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today approved
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Consumer Watchdog pointed to experts and evidence that show “decreased local oil production has no impact on California gas prices.”
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SACRAMENTO – As California’s salmon and other fish populations struggle to survive in the worst ecological crisis in the state’s history, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released a final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed Delta Conveyance Project (Delta Tunnel). DWR also
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The report, coming out as the ongoing COP28 climate summit continues to generate controversy
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Environmental and fishing groups are petitioning for yet another Delta fish to be listed under the state and federal Endangered Species Acts as salmon, Delta smelt and other fish populations crash. On Nov. 29, San Francisco Baykeeper, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, the Bay Institute, and Restore the Delta petitioned the
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We’re number one! The United States leads the list of the 10 countries with the most oil spills from 1903 to 2023, according to the results of a new study compiled in the U.K. The U.S., the biggest oil producer in the world, has clocked up 108
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Northern California’s Trinity County, emerging victorious from a California Appeals Court ruling after a four-year battle against an attempted water grab by the politically powerful Westlands Water District, has asked Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to rescind the Trump-era water contract. In response, the Hoopa Valley Tribe in a press
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A Conversation with Max Gomberg and Peter DrekMeier | Via ZOOM, Tuesday, November 28 AT NOON PST. REGISTER | In an online discussion with Tuolumne River Trust Policy Director Peter Drekmeier, former State Water Resources Control Board staffer Max Gomberg will discuss the policy missteps and public trust betrayals of the agency
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Oakland, California—Yet another fish in the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary is in deep trouble and an environmental advocacy organization intends to take legal action to prevent the species from becoming extinct. On October 11, San Francisco Baykeeper put the US Fish and Wildlife Service on notice that the group
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Hornbrook, CA – As a journalist who has been covering the movement by the Klamath River Tribes, fishermen and conservationists to remove the dams on the Klamath River for over 20 years, it is very gratifying to see the progress made on the removal of the four PacifiCorp dams this year.