by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Sometimes as part of a dire prediction, someone will say, “I hope I’m wrong, but…” Last week, I was completely wrong, and that’s great news. Writing about a petition for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a new appeal on the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel An announcement last week in Lincoln, Nebraska, raised the hackles of everyone involved in Colorado water. Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts unveiled a $500 million plan to build canals in Colorado to divert water from the South Platte River into Nebraska, and [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe The Legislature, Governor and unelected state water board officials are not doing what is best for California’s people California has a long history of squandering its precious water. In 2014, California voters approved $7.12 billion in bonds [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Rep. Doug LaMalfa: Power Plant at Lake Oroville stopped making power Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale), Senator Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber), and Assemblyman James Gallagher (R-Marysville) met this week at the top of the Oroville Dam to decry Governor [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Power outages, rolling blackouts didn’t used to be the norm in California; they are now Last week, Californians learned that Pacific Gas and Electric told state utility regulators that a damaged fuse box from a one of [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Univ. Wisconsin study links to Journal of Chinese Governance Residents of Sacramento seemed to be particularly enthusiastic about snitching on water wasters, according to a recent study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Sacramento Bee published an [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel When I open Google or any other search engine, I not only get the search box, but also a host of suggested articles that some algorithm thinks I might care about. I rarely open any of them, but this morning one [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Droughts are nature’s fault and naturally occurring; water shortages are the fault of government officials The California State Water Resources Control Board announced that thousands of farmers in the Central Valley up to the Oregon Border will [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe A declaration of extinction would allow access to massive amounts of new water for families and farmers California water expert Kristi Diener notified the Globe that a petition to request the Delta Smelt fish be declared extinct [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe CA reservoirs were designed to provide a steady five year supply for all users, and were filled to the top in June 2019 “In the last 14 days, 90% of Delta inflow went to sea. It’s equal [...]
