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31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
On January 31, the Trump Administration is scheduled to release its new proposal for the operations of the federal Central Valley Project and State Water Project under the Endangered Species Act (known as a biological assessment). [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
Rather than planning for droughts and ensuring that minimum water quality objectives are achieved in critically dry years, the proposed voluntary agreement appears to be a “plan to fail” to protect the Delta in future droughts. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
Thankfully, there is a growing recognition of the need to reform California’s water rights system, which is [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Kip Malek
The post Doug Malek: Top 40 Under 40 appeared first on . [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
Today, the State of California announced that they are withdrawing the permits and applications for the California WaterFix project and taking a fresh look at designing a single Delta tunnel project. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
Amidst everything going on in the world these days, it’s easy to miss that the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Met) is in the process of setting the course for Southern California’s water future, through a process called the [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
The State’s recent announcement of a proposed voluntary agreement (“VA” for short) for the Bay-Delta watershed is the result of an illegitimate, exclusionary backroom negotiation [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
Given the trail of environmental degradation, unlawful agency action, and scientific misconduct left in the wake of decision-making by the Trump Administration and In [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
After years of exclusionary backroom negotiations over Bay-Delta voluntary agreements, earlier this week the State made a ham-fisted attempt to greenwash these proposed voluntary agreements, sending [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
The Trump Administration’s efforts to enlarge Shasta Dam was always a bad idea. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
The current drought is highlighting many ways in which California’s water rights system is inequitable and poorly managed, but it doesn’t have to be that way. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
It’s been a bad several months for the Trump Administration’s efforts to weaken and eliminate protections for Endangered Species in California’s Bay-Delta watershed. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
It’s becoming clear that the voluntary settlement agreements presented to the State Water Board last December as part of the so-called “grand bargain” were nothing more than smoke and mirrors [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
Yesterday, attorneys for the State Water Contractors filed a motion to intervene in litigation challenging the Trump Administration’s recent biological opinions in the Bay-Delta. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
For years, scientists and State officials have warned of the need to prepare for a hotter, drier future as a result of climate change. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
After spending the past several months reviewing the Bureau of Reclamation’s biological assessment (BA) for the Trump Administration’s rewrite of the 2008 and 2009 biological opinions protecting Delta Smelt and salmon in the Bay-Delta watershed, [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
In addition to misleading attacks on environmental protections in the Bay-Delta, there has also been a lot of misinformation about permitting water infrastructure in California. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
While the State’s newest proposal for voluntary agreements in the Bay-Delta leaves a lot of unanswered questions, the initial analysis reveals a deeply troubling direction. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
In the middle of a pandemic, an economic recession, and everything else that 2020 is throwing at us, in early August the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) filed a lawsu [read post]