Yesterday, the House Rules Committee had two bills before it: H.R. 3964, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Emergency Water Delivery Act,...
Interest groups monitoring the State Water Project contract renegotiations say that the project scope and financial risk to ratepayers and...
The latest online issue of ESTUARY News sums up two days of presentations and discussions on the 2013 State of the Estuary conference, held last October in Oakland. Here’s my coverage of the afternoon session which featured a debate bewteen...
The news seems to get worse every day. A stubborn Mother Nature appears to be refusing to provide any relief...
At the January 21st State Water Resources Control Board meeting, Delta Watermaster Craig Wilson updated the Board on the activities...
Senator Dianne Feinstein has written Congressmen Devin Nunes, David Valadao, and Kevin McCarthy in response to their letter, saying she has worked as hard as anyone to find solutions for California’s water problems and that suspending the Endangered Species Act...
From the Governor’s State of the State address: ” … Among all our uncertainties, weather is one of the most...
At the California Water Commission’s January meeting, the Commission re-elected the Chair and Vice-Chair to another one-year term, heard briefings...
Congressmembers Kevin McCarthy, Devin Nunes, and David Valadao have sent a letter to Senator Feinstein, asking her just how she is intending to address the drought situation. It is dry conditions as well as federal and state regulations that have...
Members of the California Democratic delegation have written a letter to Governor Brown, noting that yesterday, the House passed the...
At the December 19 Delta Stewardship Council meeting, the Council approved the membership of the Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee,...
In a letter to President Obama, Senator Feinstein, Senator Boxer, and Congressman Costa are calling on the President Obama to create a federal drought task force. California’s precarious water situation cannot be overstated, they write: “We have ahead of us...
Assemblymember Dan Logue, along with his colleagues, Assemblymembers Beth Gaines, Ted Gaines, and Jim Nielson, have written a letter to...
With the draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and the draft environmental documents now released and the public review process...
The Planning and Conservation League, Sierra Club, Environmental Water Caucus, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance and other environmental organizations have sent a letter to Ms. Rain Emerson of the Bureau of Reclamation, objecting to the Environmental Assessment (EA) that was prepared...