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The CSPA Weekly Email Newsletter                            June 19, 2009

   The NMFS Salmon BiOp funding came close to being hijacked by Congressman Nunes of Visalia...         Amendment to remove funding defeated in close vote

June 18-News Flash!!! Nunes amendment to HR 2847 defeated 208 - 218 in close vote. Over 40 dems defect and vote for amendment despite probable extinction of salmon runs if BiOp not funded

 

Watch the debate on Nunes' amendment on C-Span                 Roll call vote on Amendment #63 to HR 2847

 

June 17-House approves appropriation bill with Nunes amendment to remove funding for Salmon BiOp

   Coalition supported Dredging moratorium bill half way to signing... CSPA supports bill...
June 18-Dredge Mining Ban Bill headed for floor vote in Assembly after Appropriations Committee, needs 2/3 vote! by Dan Bacher

June 17-SB 670, the Suction Dredge Bill, clears the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee
CSPA  raises the bar by suing the Regional Control Board over City of Tracy permit...Asks State Board for recondiseration of CVP and SWP consolidation... Protests additional diversions from Mokelumne''' and complains to Office of Administartive Law on underground regulations...

June 18-CSPA and Environmental Law Foundation Sue Regional Water Board Over Tracy Discharge Permit

 

June 18-CSPA Asks State Water Board to Reconsider State and Federal Water Project Consolidation

 

June 15-CSPA Files Protest Against Scheme to Divert Additional Water From Mokelumne

 

June 11-CSPA  files second petition with Office of Administrative Law, claims Regional Board Policy relating to water hardness to be Underground Regulation in Violation of Law

And Westlands and neighboring districts continue in their attempts to increase water supplies at cost of salmon extinction and the collapse of the delta...

June 18-Tightening the tap: Feds order 5-7 percent reduction in delta water exports to save salmon, smelt and whales by Dan Bacher

 

June 15-Farmers protest along I-5 from the Hanford News Sentinel

 

June 15-Westlands Sues Feds Over Salmon Biological Opinion by Dan Bacher

 

June 14-Agribusiness puts subsidized crops ahead of people from the Sacramento Bee

 

June 13-Officials angle for west-side water from the Fresno  Bee

 

June 11- Water Managers: Federal fish plan flawed from the Capital Ag Press


Looking for a place to go this weekend?  How about Salmonaid, Jack London Square...
June 17-TRADITIONAL SALMON BAKE HOSTED BY KLAMATH RIVER TRIBES KICKS OFF SALMONAID 2009

June 16-SalmonAid 2009 Festival Saturday and Sunday
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Today's News

 

In the last week

 

June 18-Scientists forecast a large dead zone in Gulf from the Contra Costa Times

 

June 18-Local ocean lovers oppose new state protection plan from the Ukiah Daily Journal

 

June 16-Russian River monitoring to bolster steelhead population from the Santa Rosa Press Democrat

 

June 16-Lake Red Bluff back once more from the Red Bluff Daily News

 

June 16-Trinity Projects Wrapping Up from the Eureka Times Standard

 

June 16-Federal Agency wants to block white water on Pit River from the Redding Record Searchlight

 

June 15-Oregon House backs Klamath dam removal bill from the Siskiyou Daily News

 

June 15-California Receives $2.8 Million in Economic Recovery Funds to Improve Water Quality, Create Jobs from YubaNet

 

June 15-Three Generations of Poachers Brought to Justice in Colusa County DFG Press Release

 

June 15-POLITICAL MANIPULATION OF SCIENCE RIFE DURING NOMINEE’S TENURE — Fish & Wildlife Service Southeast Region Employees Saw Interference and Reprisal from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

 

June 15-Mammal center to unveil $32 million building from the Oakland Tribune

 

June 14-Rules could curtail water: Year-round flows for Stanislaus River fish would cut into storage for San Joaquin districts from the Stockton Record

 

June 14-San Joaquin soon will begin flowing year-round: Filling, restoration of river due to begin in October from the Fresno  Bee

 

June 14-Ex-river guide among many who fought dam from the Stockton Record

 

June 13-Hatchery Fish May Hurt Efforts To Sustain Wild Salmon Runs from Science Daily

 

June 12-Point Arena MLPA Showdown: Grassroots Enviros Versus Schwarzenegger and Big Green by Dan Bacher

 

June 11-Stimulus-funded work under way at Iron Mountain Mine from the Redding Record

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