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CAL EPA/OEHHA: Report Shows Climate Change Impacts are Accelerating, Demonstrates Importance of Sustained State Action

From Cal EPA, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment CalEPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment ...
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SJV WATER: Western Kern County growers vote to expand water district board, which will reduce one wealthy farmer’s power

By Lois Henry, SJV Water A proposal by farmers in the Buena Vista Water Storage District to expand the district board in ...
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YALE CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Climate change plus a super El Niño could add up to a record-wet winter for California

The Golden State has a long history of cataclysmic floods. By Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections California’s ...
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UC SANTA CRUZ: Central Coast will face more extremes, regional report of California’s Fifth Climate Assessment finds

UC Santa Cruz researchers are leaders on the regional report, which is part of a larger statewide effort to understand ...
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PRESS RELEASE: Tire-derived pollutant found at elevated levels in critical fish habitats

Potentially Lethal Concentrations of 6PPD-Quinone Occur in Endangered Species Act Listed Aquatic Habitats of Central California” Environmental Science & Technology Letters Endangered coho salmon and ...
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GUEST COMMENTARY: Why Newsom’s Voluntary Agreements Won’t Work, Part 3: A Fundamentally Flawed Process

By Gary Bobker, the Program Director for Friends of the River, and Christie Ralston, an Associate Attorney for San Francisco Baykeeper “A call for inclusion is not rude, it’s democracy.” – Gavin ...
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STATE WATER BOARD: California recycled water use rises as state tracks long-term goals

At its October 6 meeting, the State Water Board reviewed the latest statewide data on wastewater and recycled water production. Kaylah Marcello, a research data specialist with the Recycled Water and ...
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ARIZONA MIRROR: Arizona moves to join lawsuit against federal Colorado River plan

Officials warn the framework could dry up the Central Arizona Project, which serves nearly 6 million people By Caitlin ...
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GUEST COMMENTARY: Healthy Rivers and Landscapes: A better path forward for the Bay-Delta

Healthy Rivers and Landscapes provides California with multiple tools and strategies to restore salmon runs, Unimpaired-Flows relies on silver bullet approach By Roger Cornwell, Chair, Northern ...
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EDWARD RING: Save Our Lawns, Reform AB 1572

By Edward Ring, director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center Californians are within months, if not weeks, of getting what could be the most thorough statewide drenching in ...