By Brett Baker, a sixth generation Delta farmer and attorney representing the Central Delta Water Agency and various Delta landowners...
By Lester Snow, Director of the California Department of Water Resources and Secretary for Natural Resources under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...
By: Ashley Overhouse, Defenders of Wildlife and Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta These last couple of years, the Newsom administration has certainly embraced the old (and inaccurate) adage of “water is for fighting and whiskey is for drinking.” Two dangerous...
By David Saint-Amand, board president of the Indian Wells Valley Water District This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign...
By Deja McCauley, Land Use and Health Program Manager, Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles California legislators voted on June...
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center If there is anything that might constitute an overwhelming institutional consensus in California, it’s that we are experiencing climate change, and that one of the consequences...
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Water Policy Center When it comes to building...
By Scott Hayman, chair of the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority. This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up...
By Dan Walters, Cal Matters This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Jerry Brown once described reform of the California Environmental Quality Act as “the lord’s work” but he, like other recent governors, was not...
By Carolee Krieger, C-WIN Year in and year out, decade after decade, through gubernatorial administrations of both parties, Californians have...
By Edward Ring, California Policy Center For the last few decades in California, the conventional wisdom has been that farmers...
By Dan Walters, Cal Matters This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Repeatedly Gavin Newsom has sought legislative approval of his high-priority policy proposals within the annual state budget process, even though they often have...
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center One of the most controversial water...
Commentary by Charley Wilson, Executive Director of the Southern California Water Coalition, and Richard Lambros, the Executive Director of the...
By Edward Ring One of the biggest debates over environmental stewardship is whether a degraded ecosystem is best left completely alone to recover or whether it should instead be restored by increasing human intervention and management. A perfect example of this...