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  • Dirty job pays dividends

    http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140519/A_NEWS/405190317 By Alex Breitler, Record Staff Writer May 19, 2014 12:00 AM STOCKTON – City streets and waterways might smell a bit fresher these days. Officials report fewer sewage spills since an environmental group’s lawsuit forced Stockton to address that chronic problem. In the five years since the litigation, the city stepped up inspections and…

  • Delta advocates oppose Senator Feinstein’s bailout for agribusiness bill

    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/18/18755925.php by Dan Bacher Sunday May 18th, 2014 11:45 AM Senator Dianne Feinstein is sponsoring a emergency drought relief bill, S 2918, that will enable more Delta water to be exported to corporate agribusiness interests on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley during the current drought. In a statement in April, Feinstein portrayed…

  • Experts blast terminally flawed tunnel plan, Feinstein’s attack on salmon

    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/15/18755800.php by Dan Bacher Thursday May 15th, 2014 10:35 AM Restore the Delta (RTD) joined other experts on Wednesday, May 14 to slam the lack of an Implementing Agreement (IA) for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral tunnels and the failure of water exporters to make their financial payments. The also…

  • Experts to Criticize Flawed BDCP Process, Feinstein Federal Rollbacks

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/13/1299032/-Experts-to-Criticize-Flawed-BDCP-Process-Feinstein-Federal-Rollbacks# TUE MAY 13, 2014 AT 08:39 AM PDT Dan Bacher Sacramento, CA- Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents of Governor Jerry Brown’s rush to build Peripheral Tunnels that would drain the Delta and doom sustainable farms and salmon and other Pacific fisheries, announced today they will hold a teleconference on Wednesday, May 14, to criticize…

  • Groups Respond to Water Bond Proposals, Suggest Amendments

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/29/1295691/–Groups-Respond-to-Water-Bond-Proposals-Suggest-Amendments# Dan Bacher TUE APR 29, 2014 AT 04:10 PM PDT Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents of Governor Jerry Brown’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan to build the environmentally destructive Peripheral Tunnels, today released joint letters along with Delta water agencies and environmental groups containing their collective response to water bond proposals and suggesting amendments. These…