New Mandate Would Crack Down on Cities, Let Corporate Growers Off the Hook – All for Minimal Water Savings A proposed regulation supported by the State Water Resources Conservation Board (SWRCB) would impose permanent water conservation mandates on about 400...
California cities can ban synthetic turf under a law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed. He rejected a bill to ban PFAS in fake lawns. By Shreya Agrawal, Cal Matters Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians....
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said she could not issue an order recommending operational changes to the Coyote Valley Dam without concrete data. By Michael Gennaro, Courthouse News Service An attorney for a Northern California fisheries biologist asked a...
by Mark Olalde, ProPublica, and Anna V. Smith, High Country News ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Waiting for Water:Tribes’ Fight for...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Kern County Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp came back several times during an Oct. 13 hearing to what he saw as a “major issue” in the dispute over keeping water in the Kern River –...