• CSPA, EWC Submit Extensive BDCP Comments

    On 11 June 2014, the Environmental Water Caucus, of which CSPA is a member, submitted 259 pages of scathingly critical detailed comments on the Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and associated Environmental Impact Report and Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS).   CSPA was integrally involved in preparation of the extensive comments and will continue to develop…

  • Press Conference: Experts Criticize Flawed BDCP Process, Missing Implementation Agreement

    On May 14 2014, CSPA Executive Director Bill Jennings joined Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta; Bob Wright, Friends of the River; Osha Meserve and Local Agencies of the North Delta; in a media call to discuss the flawed BDCP process. During the call presenters pointed out the lack of an Implementing Agreement , the failure…

  • Where is the Missing BDCP Implementation Agreement?

    When the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) released its 40,000 pages of planning and environmental review documents for public comment, the Implementation Agreement was conspicuously absent.   However, the Implementation Agreement revealing the commitments to species recovery and how the Delta tunnels project will be financed, built and operated is a necessary and integral component of…

  • CSPA, Coalition Call for Immediate Agency Action to List Rivers Impaired by Inadequate Flow

    On 1 April 2014, CSPA joined Russian Riverkeeper, Klamath Riverkeeper, California Coastkeeper Alliance, Karuk Tribe, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman’s Associations and Earth Law Center in submitting comments to the State Water Resources Control Board urging that the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board list rivers impaired by inadequate stream flow on the Clean…

  • CSPA, EWC Oppose HR 3964

    CSPA and the thirty-plus members of the Environmental Water Caucus submitted a letter opposing HR 3964 to the Speaker and Minority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives.  The proposed legislation, authored by Representative David Valadao of Hanford and described as an “Emergency Water Delivery Act,” is a callous political stunt that uses the drought…