An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
Some groups will likely paint the governor — who sees himself as an environmental warrior — as a politician who,...
Late Friday night, the California legislature passed Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), the California Environmental, Public Health and Workers Defense...
The Trump administration is expected on Thursday to roll back a major Obama-era policy that brought under federal protection many streams and wetlands across the U.S. By Tim Ryan, Courthouse News Service The Trump administration Thursday formally rolled back a...
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has been part of negotiations over air, water and endangered-species protections. The governor decries Trump’s environmental...
Secretary Wade Crowfoot, Jeff Kightlinger, and Jennifer Pierre discuss the Delta tunnel project, the long-awaited biological opinions, SB 1, voluntary...
New Web-based Tool Released to Track Progress toward Human Right to Water Goals From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board today authorized spending nearly a quarter billion dollars to help local water systems provide...
Water management in California has always been challenging, with the state’s variable climate that alternates between drought and floods that...
by Robin Bravender, Nevada Current The Trump administration has been sidelining researchers and suppressing climate change science at the U.S....
SB 200 establishes a stable ongoing fund to help communities access safe drinking water From the Office of the Governor: SANGER — Governor Gavin Newsom today signed SB 200 by Senator Bill Monning (D-Carmel), which establishes the Safe and Affordable...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) was notified today that the Governor’s Office of...
At the July meeting of Metropolitan’s Water Planning and Stewardship Committee meeting, the bulk of the meeting was taken up...
At last week’s meeting of Metropolitan’s Special Committee on the Bay Delta, Bay Delta Initiatives Manager Steve Arakawa updated the committee on the Governor’s water resilience portfolio and the continuing planning efforts for Delta conveyance. STATEWIDE WATER RESILIENCE PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT...
From the Northern California Water Association: On Thursday, the Newsom Administration and the State Legislature approved a commitment of $70 million...
From the Office of the Governor: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced several appointments, including the reappointment of several of the...
On April 29, 2019, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-10-19 that directed the secretaries of the California Natural Resources Agency, California Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture to prepare a water resilience portfolio that would...
