A second lawsuit has been filled against the Delta Stewardship Council’s recently-adopted Delta Plan. Aqua Alliance, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance,...
From the State Water Contractors: The State Water Contractors (SWC) today filed a lawsuit challenging the Delta Stewardship Council’s (DSC)...
California’s Democratic congressional delegation has sent a letter to Governor Brown with a list of questions that the legislators want answers to when they meet to discuss the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) with administration officials next week. The letter,...
Mitigating for the BDCP’s effects on Delta agriculture is the topic of a new discussion paper currently under development by...
By Rebekah Kearn, Courthouse News Service California water districts properly considered the environmental impacts of the nation’s largest farm-to-city water...
Using the Silicon Valley as a backdrop, the Brown Administration held a press conference and media call on May 30th to discuss the release of the final chapters of the draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan, which include the highly anticipated...
On May 28, the day prior to the release of the remaining chapters of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, Restore...
From yours truly at Capitol Weekly: “The price tag is up to nearly $25 billion, but the benefits are up,...
Chris Knopp, Executive Officer of the Delta Stewardship Council, issued this statement : “The lawsuit filed recently by the Westlands Water District and San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority is disappointing, but not unexpected. In essence, this suit challenges the...
Do you need to read the Bay Delta Conservation Plan documents but don’t know where to start? Do you want...
Chapters 8 through 12 are now available at the Bay Delta Conservation Plan website. The released chapters cover implementation costs...
Last Friday, the San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority and Westlands Water District filed a lawsuit with the Sacramento County Superior Court against the Delta Stewardship Council for adopting the Delta Plan and certifying the Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR)....
On May 14th, the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee and the Senate Select Committee on the Delta held a...
From the Delta Stewardship Council: “After eight drafts, almost 100 public meetings, and nearly 10,000 individual comments, the Delta Stewardship...
“Science, once siloed and hyper-competitive, is becoming increasingly collaborative in the face of the high cost of research and the need for speed in discovery,” wrote Reuter’s News Service in their 2012 Annual Report. Indeed, “collaborative science” is the new...