Nimbus Hatchery on the American River Trapped 2,281 Steelhead This Season
GOLD RIVER - Nimbus Fish Hatchery, located on the American River in the Sacramento metropolitan area, has finished spawning steelhead for the season and fishing pressure has dwindled.“Steelhead seem to...
View ArticleSmall Chinook salmon are schooling in Auburn Ravine after successful spawn
2021 was a very tough year for Central Valley salmon populations, due to state and federal government water mismanagement during a record drought.Only 2.6 percent of juvenile endangered winter run...
View ArticleSalmon Advocates Slam Voluntary Agreements, Sacramento River Temperature...
As the record drought in California and the West continues and the Sacramento River watershed already begins to see die offs of endangered Chinook salmon, Governor Gavin Newsom on March 29 announced...
View ArticleApril 1 - I enter a bright, new chapter in my life!
April 1, 2022To all of my friends here on Daily Kos, I have some big and exciting news to announce today.Everybody knows how tough it is to make a living as a journalist now, with the consolidation of...
View ArticleGouged at the Gas Station: Big Oil and America’s Pain at the Pump
Apr 6, 2022 Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing...
View ArticleNew Film Celebrates Klamath Tribal Communities, Salmon and Dam Removal
Press Release from the Karuk Tribe, Yurok Tribe • Hoopa Valley Tribe • Swiftwater Films:Bring the Salmon Home Tells Story 20 years in the makingKlamath River Basin (Calif. and Ore.) – Bring the Salmon...
View Article3200-foot setback zone is not 'strategic zone' for oil drilling, would...
69% of people within 3200 feet of oil well in California are people of colorUnlike other oil and gas producing states including Colorado, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and even Texas, the state of...
View ArticleStudy Finds Dramatic Potential for CA Drought Relief Through Innovative Urban...
A new analysis from the Pacific Institute finds dramatic potential for California drought relief and longer-term water resilience through the innovative urban water strategies of water efficiency,...
View ArticleBreaking: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Votes to Fund...
Los Angeles, CA - The Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Water District (MWD), the main water wholesaler in Southern California, voted on April 12 to fund the next phase of planning for the...
View ArticleGrand Jury indicts Dennis Falaschi in theft of $25 million in federal water...
FRESNO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment on Thursday, April 14, against Dennis Falaschi, 75, of Aptos, California, charging him with conspiracy, theft of government...
View ArticleStand.earth, Amazon Watch Deploy 75-foot Banner Demanding California End Role...
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA — Activists from Stand.earth and Amazon Watch on Friday afternoon deployed a 75-foot banner from Sacramento’s iconic Tower Bridge over the Sacramento River to demand that...
View ArticleRestore the Delta Urges Public to Tell State Legislators 'DWR Tunnel...
On April 20, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) sent out what Restore the Delta describes as a “non-factual statement about how the Delta Conveyance Project is the answer to managing...
View ArticleFracking Is Injustice: The High Human and Climate Toll of Fracking and LNG...
Recent global, national and state efforts to expand oil and gas production and increase liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports have “dire impacts” on public health and the climate, a major new report...
View ArticleNew Biofuelwatch Report Exposes Sordid Workings of California Climate Politics
A new report from Biofuelwatch is simply brilliant in exposing California's polluter-friendly neoliberal cap-and-trade program and related market-driven policies behind California's "climate leader"...
View ArticleWestern States Petroleum Association spent $17.5 M on CA lobbying over 3...
Deep regulatory capture by Big Oil is thriving in California, despite continual boasting by politicians that the state is the nation's "green" and "progressive" leader.The Western States Petroleum...
View ArticleBill to end offshore drilling in California waters passes out of first committee
SACRAMENTO, CA — A bill to ban offshore drilling in state waters, Senate Bill 953, passed out of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water on April 26.The bill, authored by Senator Dave Min...
View ArticleFOR Announces Recipients of the 24th CA River Awards: Michael "Pom" Preston,...
Sacramento, CA – BREAKING – Friends of the River (FOR) announced the esteemed recipients of their annual California River Awards (CRAs), a celebration honoring the career of California water leader...
View ArticleAdvocates urge action to tackle Big Ag water abuse as drought worsens,...
Sacramento, CA – Domestic water use in California rose by 19 percent in March, exposing what Food & Water Watch describes as the “clear failure” of Governor Gavin Newsom’s repeated pleas for...
View ArticleHouse Committee refers former Interior Secretary Bernhardt to DOJ on...
Washington, D.C.– David Bernhardt, former Interior Secretary under President Donald Trump and a lobbyist for the Westlands Water District and Big Oil who oversaw the creation of the environmentally...
View ArticlePlains All American Pipeline to Pay $230 million in class action settlement...
SANTA BARBARA — In a settlement reached Friday, Plains All American Pipeline has agreed to pay a total of $230 million to resolve the class action lawsuit brought by members of the local Santa Barbara...
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