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Sierra Club California Blasts Trump's Threat to Withhold Wildfire Aid from California
"I don’t think we should give California anything until they let the water run down,” Trump said.
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Environmental news with a special focus on the California Delta and the proposed tunnel project. Special reporting by Dan Bacher
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Trump Expected to Visit LA - After Threatening to Cut Off Aid Unless Delta Exports Increase
Trump’s push for increased fossil fuel production in a country that is already the biggest crude oil producer on the planet will only drive more climate disasters like LA’s ongoing wildfires.
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Trump Issues Executive Order to Divert More Delta Water to Big Agribusiness, Southern California
This memo amounts to an outright attack on recreational and commercial fishing communities, California Tribes, conservationists, Delta communities, family farmers and businesses fighting for the restoration of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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Trump’s Climate Change Denying Energy Plan Puts Big Oil Over People and Planet
The U.S. has produced more crude oil over the past three years than any other country in history
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Zero Delta Smelt Found in Annual Survey as California Water Wars Heat Up
It is significant that zero Delta smelt were caught in the survey despite the release of tens of thousands of hatchery-raised Delta smelt
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Los Angeles Fires renamed for Big Oil corporations that caused them!
David Solnit has created a meme of the LA Fires renaming the fires with the names of the big oil companies that helped to create the dramatic climate change that world is seeing now.
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CA Department of Water Resources Files Delta Tunnel 'Validation Action' with Court
On January 16 of last year, the Sacramento Superior Court ruled that DWR lacks the authority to issue revenue bonds to finance the embattled Delta Conveyance Project
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Trump Blames Los Angeles Wildfires on Newsom and Delta Smelt
The Delta Smelt is definitely not a “worthless fish.”
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Fishing groups, Winnemem Wintu sue state and feds over take permit for State Water Project
The lawsuit was filed at a time when Central Valley salmon and Delta fish populations are in their worst-ever crisis.
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Reclamation approves water plan that's 'likely to adversely affect' Sacramento River Winter Chinook
Governor Gavin Newsom also celebrated the biological opinion’s release, echoing his recent press events.
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Valley Water District will vote on additional $9.69 million for Delta Tunnel project on Jan. 14
The vote follows the vote by the Metropolitan Water District’s Board of Directors on Dec. 11 to fund an additional $141.6 million for planning and design work for the Delta Tunnel
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In a victory for Frankenfish opponents, genetically engineered salmon company shuts down hatchery operations
The company said it had failed to raise enough capital to continue the operation