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  • Environmental Water Caucus Shreds ‘Misleading’ BDCP

    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/12/18757262.php by Dan Bacher Thursday Jun 12th, 2014 8:26 AM The Environmental Water Caucus, a diverse coalition including conservation, fishing and environmental justice groups and the Karuk and Winnemem Wintu Tribes, on June 11 responded to Governor Jerry Brown’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan and its associated Environmental Impact Report with a stinging 250-page critique of…

  • Lawsuit targets Delta water shipments

    http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140612/A_NEWS/406120325 By Alex Breitler June 12, 2014 12:00 AM Environmentalists sued Wednesday to block proposed water transfers from Northern California to the drought-plagued south San Joaquin Valley, arguing that the plan fails to protect the fragile Delta. Under the federal government’s plan, willing sellers in the north would allow water to flow down the Sacramento…

  • Environmental groups say BDCP is a pack of lies

    http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=26058 STOCKTON June 11, 2014 9:00pm A coalition of 28 environmental groups and Native American tribes says the 40,000-page draft environmental impact report and statement for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan has “multiple failures to conform to state and federal laws,” among a litany of faults. The Environmental Water Caucus lays out the problems in…

  • Environmental lawsuit filed to stop water transfer package

    http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_25944984/environmental-lawsuit-filed-stop-water-transfer-package By Heather Hacking POSTED: 06/11/2014 04:30:10 PM PDT Chico’s AquAlliance and Cal Sportfishing Alliance are plaintiffs   SACRAMENTO >> A lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal District Court for the Eastern District of California against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, stating a proposed package of San Luis and Delta Mendota Water Authority transfers require a…

  • Lawsuit filed to protect north state farms, fish and communities

    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/11/18757228.php by Dan Bacher Wednesday Jun 11th, 2014 12:24 PM Groups document Delta outlow of minus 45 cfs! AquAlliance and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) today filed a lawsuit in federal District Court against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation USBR over its inadequate disclosure, avoidance of impacts, and mitigation of major water transfers from…