From Westlands Water District: Today, Westlands Water District terminated its preparation of an environmental impact report pursuant to the California...
Five years ago, California became the last state in the West to regulate groundwater. Many thought this would be impossible...
Last week, the Bureau of Reclamation signaled that they would not be participating in the Fall X2 action, which is an action to benefit Delta smelt that is specified by the 2008 biological opinion. The Fall X2 action requires maintaining...
There are numerous agencies involved in water quality issues that are focused on the San Francisco Bay and the Delta. ...
At the August meeting of the California Water Commission, Karla Nemeth, Director of the Department of Water Resources (DWR), spoke...
Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School, for The Conversation The question of which streams, lakes, wetlands and other water bodies across the U.S. should receive federal protection under the Clean Water Act has been a major controversy in environmental...
Last week, representatives for the environmental organizations that are actively participating in the Voluntary Agreement process sent a letter to...
The Golden Gate Salmon Association has issued a statement responding to a memo from the US Fish and Wildlife Service...
In this edition of the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science Journal: Chemically Enhanced Treatment Wetland to Improve Water Quality and Mitigate Land Subsidence in the Sacramento‒San Joaquin Delta: Cost and Design Considerations: Philip A. M. Bachand, Tamara E. C....
Some groups will likely paint the governor — who sees himself as an environmental warrior — as a politician who,...
There has been an ongoing conversation about the importance of thinking about the San Francisco Estuary holistically as a connected...
Late Friday night, the California legislature passed Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), the California Environmental, Public Health and Workers Defense Act. Governor Newsom has indicated he will veto the measure. Here are the responses from legislators, NGOs, water agencies, and...
The Trump administration is expected on Thursday to roll back a major Obama-era policy that brought under federal protection many...
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has been part of negotiations over air, water and endangered-species protections. The governor decries Trump’s environmental...
Panel of lawyers dive into the web of laws affecting water in the Delta: The state and federal endangered species acts, water quality control planning, the Delta Reform Act, best available science, and more … The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is...