Author Conservation organizations & coalitions

PRESS RELEASE: Groups and Tribe Urge Regulators to Control Toxic Pollution from Selenium

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Policy and regulationWater quality

April 3, 2024

From the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance In an April 1, 2024 letter to three water boards, fishing and conservation groups...

PRESS RELEASE: Racial discrimination complaint names State Water Board as partly to blame for fertilizer contamination in Central Coast drinking wells

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Water qualityWater rights and water law

March 22, 2024

Press release This week, Latino community groups were joined by Monterey Waterkeeper and the Environmental Justice and Common Good Initiative...

PRESS RELEASE: Environmental and fishing groups raise alarm about ongoing killing of federally protected fish by the Central Valley Project and State Water Project

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Water project operations

March 9, 2024

Press release from Golden State Salmon Association (GSSA), The Bay Institute, and Defenders of Wildlife On March 6, a coalition...

PRESS RELEASE: Groups call out conservation as equitable, affordable and the most reliable option for meeting the state’s demand for water in light of the West’s unpredictable water future

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Policy and regulation

March 8, 2024

Groups call out conservation as equitable, affordable and the most reliable option for meeting the state’s demand for water in...

REACTIONS: Restore the Delta and San Francisco Baykeeper respond to DWR submitting petition for Delta Conveyance Project

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Delta Conveyance Project

February 23, 2024

Restore the Delta:  DWR files petition to change Delta water rights despite civil rights investigation by the US EPA The...

PRESS RELEASE: Organizations petition the State Water Board to set permanent instream flow requirements for the Shasta River, a critical Klamath River tributary

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Policy and regulation

January 17, 2024

Press release from Save Our Salmon As the largest dam removal project in history unfolds on the Klamath River, conservation...

GUEST COMMENTARY: Small Legal Change Has Big Implications for California’s Climate Preparedness

Conservation organizations & coalitions

CommentaryEcosystemsGroundwater NewsPolicy and regulation

December 12, 2023

Written by Roger Dickinson, CivicWell Policy Director and co-author of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, and Julie Rentner, River Partners...

LETTER: Supplemental Comments on the Delta Conveyance Project DEIR

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Delta Conveyance ProjectNotebook News and Features

November 29, 2023

Dear Director Karla Nemeth and Department of Water Resources: By this letter, our public interest organizations submit additional supplemental comments...

PRESS RELEASE: Friends of the River, Sierra Club, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance Condemn Today’s Hastened Approval of Sites Reservoir’s Environmental Impact Report

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Policy and regulation

November 17, 2023

Press release from Friends of the River, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, and the Sierra Club On November 17, members of...

PRESS RELEASE: Groups challenge Water Boards’ orders as harmful to Central Coast disadvantaged communities and fisheries

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Policy and regulationWater quality

October 30, 2023

They contend that nitrates in runoff from chemical fertilizers and other sources contaminate thousands of drinking water wells, and the...

PRESS RELEASE: Coalition urges the Newsom administration to reject the Sites Project Authority’s rushed application for regulatory streamlining

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Policy and regulation

October 25, 2023

Today, Friends of the River, Defenders of Wildlife, and a coalition of conservation organizations submitted a letter to the Governor’s...

PRESS RELEASE: Caltrans Stormwater Lawsuit Resolved After Three Decades

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Water quality

October 11, 2023

LA Waterkeeper and NRDC agree to updated settlement terms aimed at capturing and cleaning stormwater from Los Angeles region’s roadways...

LETTER calling on Water Board to pay attention to lead and not lose millions of dollars to fix our problems

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Policy and regulationWater quality

September 29, 2023

From Clean Water Action and partners: Clean Water Action and our allies at NRDC, EWG, and CalPirg have been working...

PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Conservation Groups Unite in Opposition To Sites Reservoir, Formally Protest Water Right

Conservation organizations & coalitions

CommentaryWater rights and water law

September 1, 2023

Friends of the River (FOR) and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), two of California’s oldest and most respected water...

PRESS RELEASE: Scientific Report: Yearly Greenhouse Gas Pollution From Proposed Sites Dam and Reservoir Project Would Equal 80,000 Gas-Powered Cars

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Policy and regulation

August 24, 2023

New Patagonia & Friends of the River Study Estimates the Proposed Dam’s Annual Emissions Press release from Friends of the...