From the Center for Biological Diversity: Conservation and environmental justice groups filed a legal challenge today to the largest reservoir...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The Army Corps of Engineers approved a request by operators of the power plant at...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Public interest groups that succeeded in getting a court order mandating 40% of the Kern River’s flows be kept in the river to maintain fish, don’t want to be drawn into a fight over water...
From the Hoopa Valley Tribe: With four words, the California Supreme Court thwarted agribusiness giant Westlands Water District’s years-long scheme...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water If anyone thought a recent court order mandating 40% of the Kern River’s flow remain...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water California’s 280,000 acres of mountain meadows dotting the Sierra Nevada are more than pretty rest stops along arduous alpine trails. They also act like giant water sponges, filtering water and slowing it down as runoff...
Press release from the Hoopa Valley Tribe Emerging victorious from a California Appeals Court ruling after a four-year battle against...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water A judge’s order signed Tuesday ensures there will be at least some water flowing in...
The lawsuit accuses state transit agency Caltrans of killing endangered Southern California steelhead trout as part of a repair project on Highway 101. By Edvard Pettersson, Courthouse News Service The California Department of Transportation’s emergency repair work on the 101...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water In what one attorney called a “moment of truth” for the City of Bakersfield, a...
Press release from Water Audit California Today, the Kern County Superior Court granted Water Audit California’s and other joint plaintiffs’...
Press release from the Hoopa Valley Tribe: In its latest effort to evade payment of at least $100 million in environmental restoration and other costs, the Westlands Water District (Westlands) is asking the California Supreme Court to overrule four State...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Kern County Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp came back several times during an Oct. 13...
By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service A Kern County judge heard arguments Friday in a case targeting water flows in...
Fish and Wildlife Missed Congressional Deadline to Protect Longfin Smelt Press release from the San Francisco Baykeeper: San Francisco Baykeeper today put the US Fish and Wildlife Service on notice that the environmental advocacy organization intends to sue the agency...