https://mavensnotebook.com/2024/02/05/reactions-newsoms-salmon-strategy-gets-mixed-reviews/ Feb 5, 2024 Last week, the Newsom administration released its salmon strategy aimed at aimed at protecting and restoring salmon “amidst hotter and drier weather exacerbated by climate change.”  Here’s what conservation groups and other stakeholders had to say: California Salmon and Steelhead Coalition (CalTrout, Trout Unlimited, and the Nature Conservancy) California Salmon and…

https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/civil-engineering-magazine/article/2024/01/major-california-reservoir-project-faces-legal-challenge 1/10/2024 By Jay Landers In late December, a group of environmental organizations filed a legal challenge to the massive $4.5 billion Sites Reservoir project planned for Northern California. The move to halt the delivery of the 1.5 million acre-ft reservoir in the Sacramento Valley represents the first case to be tried under a new…

https://www.courthousenews.com/conservation-groups-sue-over-sites-reservoir-project/ Alan Riquelmy December 20, 2023 Environmentalists say the project will harm the environment more than it will help California’s water supply. WOODLAND, Calif. (CN) — A legal challenge was filed Wednesday in Yolo County Superior Court over one of California’s largest reservoir projects in decades. Friends of the River, the Center for Biological Diversity,…

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/30/2208882/-Environmental-and-fishing-groups-petition-CA-and-feds-to-protect-SF-Bay-white-sturgeon By Dan Bacher Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 10:14:46a PST Environmental and fishing groups are petitioning for yet another Delta fish to be listed under the state and federal Endangered Species Acts as salmon, Delta smelt and other fish populations crash. On Nov. 29, San Francisco Baykeeper, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, the Bay Institute,…

https://shastascout.org/pges-dam-deal-good-business-or-flirting-with-disaster/#:~:text=First%2C%20if%20approved%20by%20the,a%20smaller%20arm%20of%20PG%26E. By Marc Dadigan October 2, 2023 The state is deciding whether to approve a PG&E proposal to sell most of its hydroelectric dams, including McCloud and other non-nuclear energy facilities, to a smaller subsidiary company it controls. Environmental groups argue the transaction may slow already long-delayed repairs, increasing current flood risks. After heavy rains…