Cal Matters

October 24, 2019

By Kate Cimini, Cal Matters Activists and local government officials across Monterey County have banded together to fight a proposed...

COMMENTARY AT CAL MATTERS: California must embrace groundwater management, and expand it

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Commentary Groundwater News

September 27, 2019

Five years ago, California became the last state in the West to regulate groundwater. Many thought this would be impossible...

CAL MATTERS: Demise of key environment bill could escalate California’s water wars

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation

September 18, 2019

Some groups will likely paint the governor — who sees himself as an environmental warrior — as a politician who,...

CAL MATTERS: On bill to blunt Trump’s environment aims, it’s farms or endangered species — and Newsom must choose

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation Water rights and water law

September 11, 2019

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has been part of negotiations over air, water and endangered-species protections. The governor decries Trump’s environmental...

CAL MATTERS: Seabirds eating plastic. Recyclers struggling. This is what California’s waste crisis looks like

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Water quality

August 9, 2019

By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters It was more than a year after the seabird died and washed up on a...

COMMENTARY: Earthquakes can dry water supply. Californians must prepare

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Planning and management

July 25, 2019

Living in earthquake country makes planning and emergency preparedness critical. Taking steps to prepare for the worst is important. Understanding...

CAL MATTERS: Why fighting for clean water with climate change money worries some California lawmakers

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation Water quality

June 17, 2019

Combat climate change, or clean up the water? Legislators chose to dip into a greenhouse gas fund to fight California’s...

CAL MATTERS: Weakling or bully? The battle over CEQA, the state’s iconic environmental law

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation

May 13, 2019

Inside the Capitol’s corridors and pro-development quarters around the state, the California Environmental Quality Act is increasingly disparaged as a...

CAL MATTERS: Let it flow: In about-face, state breaks and shifts levees to restore natural floodplains

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Policy and regulation

December 4, 2018

A growing emphasis on reconnecting California floodplains to rivers so they can absorb floodwaters is a U-turn from past reliance...

CAL MATTERS: Meet the newest recruits in California’s war on climate change: carbon farmers

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Agriculture

September 26, 2018

Eighty California farmers are engaged in a state-funded effort to boost carbon concentrations in the soil—a promising way to combat...

CAL MATTERS: California sues Trump administration over water protection

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation

February 6, 2018

California has joined a group of states suing two federal agencies for suspending a 2015 rule that entitled more bodies...

CAL MATTERS: In California’s Sierra Nevada, putting the trees to work

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Ecosystems

January 23, 2018

“What happens in the Sierra Nevada doesn’t stay in the Sierra Nevada.” By Julie Cart, Cal Matters This story was...

CAL MATTERS: State may adopt wetlands protections rescinded by Trump administration

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation

July 30, 2017

In what is becoming a standard call-and-response rejoinder, a California water agency is considering rules to protect state wetlands after...

CAL MATTERS: Trio of state bills would keep federal environmental safeguards here even if feds drop them

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation

February 23, 2017

Democrats in the California Legislature, wary of as-yet unknown environmental polices to come from the Trump White House, have moved...

CAL MATTERS: To save SF Bay and its dying Delta, state aims to re-plumb California

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Policy and regulation

November 26, 2016

By Julie Cart, Cal Matters The report’s findings were unequivocal: Given the current pace of water diversions, the San Francisco...

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CAL MATTERS: Central Coast desal project would raise water bills, endanger aquifer, opponents say

COMMENTARY AT CAL MATTERS: California must embrace groundwater management, and expand it

CAL MATTERS: Demise of key environment bill could escalate California’s water wars

CAL MATTERS: On bill to blunt Trump’s environment aims, it’s farms or endangered species — and Newsom must choose

CAL MATTERS: Seabirds eating plastic. Recyclers struggling. This is what California’s waste crisis looks like

COMMENTARY: Earthquakes can dry water supply. Californians must prepare

CAL MATTERS: Why fighting for clean water with climate change money worries some California lawmakers

CAL MATTERS: Weakling or bully? The battle over CEQA, the state’s iconic environmental law

CAL MATTERS: Let it flow: In about-face, state breaks and shifts levees to restore natural floodplains

CAL MATTERS: Meet the newest recruits in California’s war on climate change: carbon farmers

CAL MATTERS: California sues Trump administration over water protection

CAL MATTERS: In California’s Sierra Nevada, putting the trees to work

CAL MATTERS: State may adopt wetlands protections rescinded by Trump administration

CAL MATTERS: Trio of state bills would keep federal environmental safeguards here even if feds drop them

CAL MATTERS: To save SF Bay and its dying Delta, state aims to re-plumb California