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Coalition Requests Emergency Action on Scott River
CSPA joined with the Karuk Tribe, California Coastkeeper Alliance, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman’s Associations, Earth Law Center and Klamath Riverkeeper in requesting that the State Water Resources Control Board and California Department of Fish and Wildlife take emergency action to increase flows in the Scott River. The request included a proposed emergency plan to…
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CSPA Assails Deceptive BDCP Impact Study
Today, CSPA, CWIN and AquAlliance issued a press release assailing the deceptive BDCP economic impact study released by the Brown Administration. BDCP’s tunnel scheme will saddle ratepayers with more than $50 billion in debt and imperil the Delta estuary and its tributary waters. BDCP is predicated on the irrational assumption that you can restore an…
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CSPA Submits Comments on Delta Plan EIR
CSPA joined with the California Water Impact Network and AquAlliance in filing extensive comments on the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan and Revised Draft Delta Plan Program Environmental Impact Report. The highly critical comments said that the environmental document failed to: provide an adequate project description, adequately disclose the environmental setting, provide an adequate impact…
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EWC, Including CSPA, Submit Comments on Delta Plan EIR
The Environmental Water Caucus and 48 environmental, fishing and tribal organizations, including CSPA, submitted detailed comments on the deficiencies of the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan and Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The Draft EIR and proposed Delta Plan perpetuate the myth that existing water exports are sustainable and suggest that “water supply reliability” is shorthand…
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PCFFA and CSPA Submit Comments on Delta Plan EIR
Michael Lozeau, of Lozeau/Drury LLP, submitted detailed comments on the failure of the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan and Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Public Trust Doctrine and the Delta Reform Act of 2009. The letter characterized the Draft Plan as protection of the status quo and…
