Environmental news with a special focus on the California Delta and the proposed tunnel project. Special reporting by Dan Bacher
Elections
“Donald Trump’s day-one actions have shown where his loyalties lie – executing the industry’s wishlist at the expense of working Americans."
Environmental News
Chevron and WSPA again dominate lobbying spending in California.
Environmental News
Newsom on October 23 announced what he described as “two recent key victories” in his unrelenting political campaign to advance the 43-mile long Delta Tunnel
Environmental News
Restore the Delta noted that two new developments this week expose “major flaws in the Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) rush to advance the controversial Delta Conveyance Project (Delta Tun
Environmental News
However, there is some very welcome news regarding the Klamath River, where the removal of four dams was completed one year ago.
Environmental News
Civil unrest resulting from flooding caused by climate change and political corruption
Environmental News
The letter notes that since President Trump’s election, Governor Newsom has appeared to back away from “aggressively taking on Big Oil and the need for a rapid transition off fossil fuels,”
Environmental News
Sacramento River in the North Delta. Photo by Dan Bacher.
Environmental News
Newsom described the bill package as “sweeping bipartisan reforms to California's world-leading climate policy that promise to save Californians billions of dollars on energy costs.”
Environmental News
If built, the Delta Tunnel would hasten the extinction of Sacramento River spring and winter-run Chinook salmon,
Environmental News
No Delta smelt have been found in the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fall Midwater Trawl Survey for seven years.
Politics & Government
Newsom and legislative leaders are trying to ramrod environmentally destructive bills through the Legislature