Resnicks, Corporate Agribusiness Fund Jerry Meral's Water Bond Campaign
Many of the same agribusiness interests, including Stewart and Lynda Resnick of the Wonderful Company, that backed the water bond of 2014 and support the Delta Tunnels are now funding the campaign to...
View ArticleNatural Resources Secretary John Laird opposes rider banning judicial review...
in a victory for Delta Tunnels opponents urging the Brown administration to oppose Congressman Ken Calvert’s rider banning judicial review of the tunnels and other water projects, California Natural...
View ArticleHouse Passes Interior Spending Bill with Riders Imperiling Bay-Delta, Water Law
WASHINGTON D.C. – The House of Representatives today passed the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H.R. 6147), including three federal riders that would circumvent water...
View ArticleCoalition Slams Delta Tunnels Finance Authority's Request for $1.6 Billion...
The Delta Counties Coalition (DCC), an alliance of the counties of Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano and Yolo, today issued a statement opposing the Delta Conveyance Finance Authority’s...
View ArticleCoalition tells Jeff Denham, Ryan Zinke: Hands off state water rights and...
As Congressman Jeff Denham was touring Don Pedro and New Melones reservoirs with Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke on July 20, conservation, Tribal and environmental justice advocates held a press...
View Article58 Groups Sign on to Letter Demanding Stronger Bay-Delta Flow Standards
On July 26, a coalition of organizations from fishing, environmental, tribal, Delta, and business communities submitted a letter to the State Water Resources Control Board (Water Board) demanding...
View ArticleRigoberta Menchú and other women Nobel Laureates urge Jerry Brown to...
A group of Women Nobel Laureates including Rigoberta Menchú Tum of Guatemala today sent a letter to California Governor Jerry Brown urging him to “begin managed and just transition off of oil and gas...
View ArticleGovernor Brown, Oil Change International Condemn Trump's Weakening of Clean...
SACRAMENTO – California Governor Jerry Brown today condemned the Trump Administration’s proposal to weaken the nation’s clean vehicle emissions standard at the same time that California regulators...
View ArticleTrump shows his ignorance of CA water - and his contempt for West Coast...
In a tweet today, Donald Trump showed his ignorance of California water and geography while advocating for increased diversions of Northern California water to his corporate agribusiness backers in the...
View ArticleSix youths demanding a fossil fuel extraction freeze arrested in sit in at...
Sacramento, CA -- As massive wildfires continued to ravage the state, 35 California youth held a sit-in at Governor Jerry Brown’s office at the state capitol in Sacramento Tuesday, demanding that he...
View ArticleSalmon Fishermen Respond to Commerce Secretary's Puzzling Directive on Water...
Apparently responding to President Trump’s tweet on Monday claiming that Governor Jerry Brown “must allow the Free Flow of the vast amounts of water coming from the North and foolishly being diverted...
View ArticleLegislative Budget Committee Postpones Hearing on Extending SWP Contracts to...
California’s Joint Legislative Budget Committee announced Thursday, August 9, that they have postponed indefinitely a hearing on extending State Water Project contracts to fund Governor Jerry Brown’s...
View ArticleOcean fracking should be no surprise
The California Coastal Commission, under intense pressure from legislators and environmental activists, pledged Thursday, August 15 at its meeting in Santa Cruz to investigate reports of fracking...
View ArticleGroups Urge Governor Brown to Reject Trump Takeover of California's Energy...
Sacramento—Today, Food & Water Watch, Consumer Watchdog, and local community groups will hold a press conference urging Governor Brown to protect California’s environment and green laws from the...
View ArticleGroups rally against bill that will hand over California electricity grid to...
SACRAMENTO — A press conference and rally on the south steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento Wednesday featured actors playing Governor Jerry Brown and President Donald Trump laying together in a...
View ArticleMost of the 21,000 oil wells approved under Gov. Brown are in low-income...
Despite California’s image as a “green” and “progressive” leader, there has been a massive expansion of oil and gas drilling in the state under Governor Jerry Brown — and most of these new wells are...
View ArticleSecretary Zinke issues memo to maximize Central Valley project deliveries at...
On Friday, August 17, U.S. Secretary of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued a controversial memo calling for actions to be taken to “maximize Central Valley Project deliveries” to agribusiness and...
View ArticleFishermen, tribal members and conservationists push for increased flows on...
One day before the State Water Resources Control Board’s hearing on increased flows for the San Joaquin River and its three tributaries was held in Sacramento on August 21, Jonas Minton, Senior Water...
View ArticleBrown's Last Chance Activists Arrested in Sit In Against New Oil Drilling at...
The California Highway Patrol arrested four activists as they tied themselves to an mock “oil derrick,” sang songs and blocked the driveway of the entrance to the garage at the State Capitol on...
View Article50+ Bay Area Officials Call on Gov. Brown to Phase Out Oil and Gas Production...
Letter Says Keeping State’s Fossil Fuels in the Ground Necessary to Protect Public Health and Lead on Climate Change OAKLAND, Calif.— Echoing severe concerns that fossil fuel production threatens the...
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