https://www.courthousenews.com/california-settles-fight-over-hoarded-dam-water/ July 21, 2020 NICK CAHILL (CN) — Resolving an environmental lawsuit hatched during the state’s recent historic drought, California regulators on Tuesday promised new actions intended to ease the demise of endangered salmon populations. As part of a settlement reached with fishing and environmentalist groups, the California State Water Resources Control Board says it…

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/trump-administration-veteranslobbying-348273 By THEODORIC MEYER and DEBRA KAHN 07/08/2020 04:30 AM EDT On a February morning in 2018, representatives of several California water agencies arrived at a meeting at the Interior Department’s austere Washington headquarters to discuss a long-sought goal: weakening the Endangered Species Act so more water could be diverted for farming. Less than three…

https://redgreenandblue.org/2020/05/16/aqualliance-sues-long-term-water-transfers-threaten-fish-farms-communities/ By Dan Bacher Published on May 16th, 2020 “The USBR and SLDMWA seek significant water from the Sacramento River Watershed and groundwater basins to ship through the Delta to the San Joaquin Valley,” said AquAlliance Executive Director Barbara Vlamis. The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance and the California Water Impact Network joined AquAlliance in the…

https://scvnews.com/california-moves-ahead-with-water-plan-without-feds-guidance/ Courthouse News Service | Wednesday, Apr 1, 2020 By Nick Cahill SACRAMENTO — In the latest break between the Trump administration and California on environmental policy, officials decided Tuesday to give the state unprecedented control over a water plan that delivers water to more than 27 million residents. For decades California and the federal…

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/will-the-extinction-of-delta-smelt-be-governor-gavin-newsoms-environmental-legacy/ January 24, 2020 by Dan Bacher The Delta smelt, once the most abundant species on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, continues its steep slide towards extinction. For the second year in a row, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in its annual fall midwater trawl survey in 2019 found zero Delta smelt during…