Environmentalists must offer concrete examples of harm in their suit against a modular home builder over river contamination. By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service A federal judge ruled Thursday an environmental group that sued a Woodland, California, company over contaminated...
From the Center for Biological Diversity: Conservation and environmental justice groups filed a legal challenge today to the largest reservoir project approved in California in decades. The Sites Reservoir would harm the Sacramento River ecosystem, threaten already imperiled fish species,...
From the Hoopa Valley Tribe: With four words, the California Supreme Court thwarted agribusiness giant Westlands Water District’s years-long scheme with the federal Bureau of Reclamation to rubber stamp a permanent water contract. The contract would have discounted Westlands’ massive...
Press release from the Hoopa Valley Tribe Emerging victorious from a California Appeals Court ruling after a four-year battle against an attempted water grab by the massive Westlands Water District (Westlands), northern California’s Trinity County asked Interior Secretary Deb Haaland...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water In what one attorney called a “moment of truth” for the City of Bakersfield, a judge ordered the city to keep enough water in the normally dry Kern River to protect fish populations. The 21-page...
