An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
In the recurring legislative fight between YIMBY legislators and defenders of California’s signature environmental law, one bill could be a...
By Ching Lee, Ag Alert Confusion and uncertainty. Those are two words being used by California agricultural exporters with farm...
By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to review the definition of “waters of the United States,” or WOTUS, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced this month. Zeldin pledged to work with the U.S. Army Corps of...
From the Delta Protection Commission: Unemployment fell. Median income rose. Land in agricultural production increased. These improving socioeconomic indicators for...
States are increasingly leading projects in national forests. By Alex Brown, Stateline Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed a...
Residents of the border city of Imperial Beach claim Veolia failed to stop dumping sewage into the Pacific Ocean and local waterways, perpetuating a public health and environmental crisis. By Sam Ribakoff, Courthouse News Service Residents of a southern San...
Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School Most of the United States’ major climate regulations are underpinned by one important...
Reporting by Julie Cart, Data analysis by Natasha Uzcátegui-Liggett This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their...
President Trump — once again — will rein in the nation’s 53-year-old law protecting waterways. At stake are seasonal streams, pools and ponds. The move is welcomed by farmers and builders. By Alastair Bland This story was originally published by...
By Albert C. Lin, University of California, Davis In response to President Donald Trump’s declaration of a “national energy emergency,”...
By Tricia Stadnyk, University of Calgary Interest from the United States in Canada’s water is concerning, though nothing new. In...
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center On May 22, 2022, the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously to deny final approval for a desalination plant in Huntington Beach. It would have produced 56,000...
Poor dam design and lack of evacuation plans bode disaster in an era of climate change From the California Water...
The Trump administration has now reportedly cancelled the US Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources, Hydrologic Engineering Center...
Fresno has a 200% gravel surplus. So why does CEMEX want to dig a pit deeper than Millerton Lake along one of America’s most over-extracted rivers? By Gregory Weaver, Fresnoland The San Joaquin River, one of California’s most beleaguered waterways,...
