AG ALERT: Water quality panel focuses on agricultural nitrogen use Ag Alert Water quality August 27, 2025By Christine Souza, Ag Alert As California water officials consider changes to the state’s regulatory framework for nitrogen applications and...
ILRP: Second Irrigated Lands Expert Panel meeting features Indigenous perspectives and a lot of data Jane Sooby Water quality August 20, 2025By Jane Sooby Day 2 of the Second Statewide Agricultural Expert Panel’s “Kick Off Meeting” convened August 14, 2025, at...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: Violating California residents’ right to water Inside Climate News Policy and regulation July 3, 2025People in the nation’s richest strawberry-growing region have lacked safe drinking water for decades. A Biden administration grant promised them...
AG ALERT: Study finds skyrocketing cost of regulatory compliance for California lettuce growers Ag Alert AgriculturePolicy and regulation January 29, 2025By Ag Alert During the past seven years, the cost to California lettuce growers of complying with the state’s environmental,...
KNEE DEEP TIMES: Coho salmon remain afloat four years after CZU fire Knee Deep Times Fish and wildlife January 28, 2025By Mark DeGraff, Knee Deep Times Landslides. Falling trees. Scorched forests. These are just a few ways the 2020 CZU...
NOAA FISHERIES: Four Pacific salmon and steelhead retain threatened status in reviews of recovery progress NOAA Fisheries Fish and wildlifePolicy and regulation December 12, 2024By NOAA Fisheries NOAA Fisheries has completed 5-year reviews of the recovery progress and prospects of four salmon and steelhead...
CAL MATTERS: Dangerous herbicide used on California crops banned Cal Matters Groundwater News August 8, 2024The chemical, used for decades, can harm babies’ developing brains. Farmworkers and people living near fields are most at risk....
UC SANTA CRUZ: Closer water monitoring needed as wildfires increase UC Santa Cruz Water qualityWildfires and watersheds March 26, 2024By Mike Peña, UC Santa Cruz With climate change leading to increases in the size and frequency of wildfires, UC...
PRESS RELEASE: Racial discrimination complaint names State Water Board as partly to blame for fertilizer contamination in Central Coast drinking wells Conservation organizations & coalitions Water qualityWater rights and water law March 22, 2024Press release This week, Latino community groups were joined by Monterey Waterkeeper and the Environmental Justice and Common Good Initiative...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: In California, farmers test a method to sink more water into underground stores Inside Climate News Groundwater News November 29, 2023A novel program reimburses landowners for replenishing groundwater, in a bid to add regularity to the state’s boom and bust...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Environmentalists accuse Caltrans of dewatering creek with endangered steelhead Courthouse News Service Water rights and water law November 3, 2023The lawsuit accuses state transit agency Caltrans of killing endangered Southern California steelhead trout as part of a repair project...
PRESS RELEASE: Groups challenge Water Boards’ orders as harmful to Central Coast disadvantaged communities and fisheries Conservation organizations & coalitions Policy and regulationWater quality October 30, 2023They contend that nitrates in runoff from chemical fertilizers and other sources contaminate thousands of drinking water wells, and the...
AG ALERT COMMENTARY: Farmers fight to fix a river channel before next flood Ag Alert Commentary October 25, 2023By Norm Groot, executive director of the Monterey County Farm Bureau During atmospheric river storms that hit California in January...
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: Environmental groups prevail in California steelhead case Press Release/Notice Water rights and water law October 2, 2023Supreme Court Decision Upholds Ruling that Twitchell Dam Operators Must Comply with Federal Law to Protect Endangered Fish Press release...
NOAA FISHERIES: Central California Coast Coho Salmon Need Restored Habitat to Improve Resilience to Climate Change NOAA Fisheries Fish and wildlifeScience May 2, 2023Endangered Species Act review says salmon species still endangered and vulnerable to drought and climate change. By NOAA Fisheries Although...
