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California sees 11% decline in oil reserves, but still 5th most in U.S.
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830,000 Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Fry Die from Gas Bubble Disease in Klamath River
By Dan Bacher | The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced Saturday morning that hundreds of thousands of fall-run Chinook salmon fry, released for the first time from its Fall Creek Fish Hatchery in Siskiyou County, are “presumed to have succumbed to gas bubble disease in the Klamath River”
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U.S. EPA Region 9: Bay-Delta Plan must include numeric flow criteria, adopt tribal beneficial uses
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It’s Final: No Delta Smelt Collected in CDFW Fall Midwater Trawl Survey for 6th Year
It’s final — For the sixth year in a row, no Delta Smelt have been collected in the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fall Midwater Trawl (FMWT) Survey in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta from September through December 2023. Once the most abundant species in the entire estuary,
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Conservation groups file lawsuit against the environmentally destructive Sites Reservoir
WOODLAND, Calif.— Five conservation groups filed a lawsuit on Dec. 20 against the controversial Sites Reservoir, the largest reservoir project approved in California in decades. This reservoir would harm the Sacramento River ecosystem and threaten already imperiled salmon and other fish species, the lawsuit contends. Represented by the Law Offices
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Environmental groups slam final Delta Tunnel EIR as California fish populations collapse
SACRAMENTO – As California’s salmon and other fish populations struggle to survive in the worst ecological crisis in the state’s history, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released a final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed Delta Conveyance Project (Delta Tunnel). DWR also
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Environmental and fishing groups petition CA and feds to protect SF Bay white sturgeon
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United States tops the list of countries with the most oil spills from 1903-2023
We’re number one! The United States leads the list of the 10 countries with the most oil spills from 1903 to 2023, according to the results of a new study compiled in the U.K. The U.S., the biggest oil producer in the world, has clocked up 108
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Trinity County Urges Interior Secretary to Terminate Trump-Era Water Contract with Westlands
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An Insider’s Perspective on Governor Newsom and the State Water Board
A Conversation with Max Gomberg and Peter DrekMeier | Via ZOOM, Tuesday, November 28 AT NOON PST. REGISTER | In an online discussion with Tuolumne River Trust Policy Director Peter Drekmeier, former State Water Resources Control Board staffer Max Gomberg will discuss the policy missteps and public trust betrayals of the agency
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SF Baykeeper Intends to Sue Feds for Missing Congressional Deadline to Protect Longfin Smelt
Oakland, California—Yet another fish in the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary is in deep trouble and an environmental advocacy organization intends to take legal action to prevent the species from becoming extinct. On October 11, San Francisco Baykeeper put the US Fish and Wildlife Service on notice that the group