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"all of the alternatives in the DEIR substantially increase water exports from the Delta on average by approximately 500,000 acre feet per year, including significant increases in water diversions in dry and critically dry years (200-300,000 [af/year])" on.nrdc.org/3wMPzGu
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"Empirical studies have long found that [Environmental Impact Statements] are required in only about 1% of the federal actions subject to NEPA."
I am truly embarrassed that I believed the claim that federal environmental legislation was blocking clean-energy development.
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"What’s clear is that no country is truly prepared for a major climate disaster, and the risks are changing," @peterprengaman writes. "As powerful as extreme weather events have already gotten, much worse is likely to come. It’s basic physics." apnews.com/article/climate-c…
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Birds too. <sigh>
Plummeting numbers of insects are now severely affecting birds, research shows. They are getting smaller and producing fewer young.
phys.org/news/2026-06-insect…
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Algae at the reflecting pool now has a cheer squad lol – at Washington, DC
Sierra Club California Water Committee retweeted
Newsom and Trump Just Agreed on Something: Building the Delta Tunnel. Fishing Groups Are Furious. activenorcal.com/?p=49307
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Project 2025 called for gutting the EPA's scientific research office. In under a year, the Trump Administration has done exactly that, taking a division of more than 1,500 scientists down to 124, reassigning doctors and epidemiologists to finance offices and hazardous waste permitting desks that have nothing to do with their expertise.
For more than 50 years, that office produced the independent science behind every major clean air and clean water protection this country has. It existed specifically to be free from political interference.
The scientists who remain answer to Trump appointees, and their work must now conform to the Administration's agenda.
No other institution in the United States can replace what's being lost. Once that expertise is dismantled, it doesn’t come back in a year or a decade. It’s a generation of progress erased, deliberately, methodically, and exactly according to plan.
nytimes.com/2026/04/27/clima…
Sierra Club California Water Committee retweeted
Most Americans don't know how wildlife & fish conservation is actually funded. It’s not through general taxes or donations.
It’s a hidden user-pay-loop funded almost entirely by hunters and anglers. And it works! But it is starting to crack and could still be better.
New Tangled Nature post! 👇🦆🎣🦌🏞️
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Sierra Club California Water Committee retweeted
Currently, the state is spending tens of thousands of dollars per acre to manage emissions from the exposed Salton Sea lakebed by putting straw bales out on the ground and doing surface roughening, with a total cost of over $100 million dollars. #cawater ppic.org/blog/new-salton-sea…
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Check out this 'Water Spirit' sculpture by Nicholas Mukomberanwa that I saw in the Atlanta Airport last week. Beautiful.
Sierra Club California Water Committee retweeted
Big changes are likely on the way for the Delta that will almost certainly alter the volume, timing and objectives of Delta flows, but due to recent changes in long-established monitoring programs, the impact on water quality and ecosystem may be very hard to evaluate. #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2026/02/0…
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20% of US citizens want to leave the USA permanently.
40% of young US women want to leave the USA permanently.
What can be done to save/fix our country?
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In her new book out this week, The Water Remembers, Amy Bowers Cordalis recounts the intergenerational struggle to protect the Klamath and Yurok way of life. #cawater hcn.org/articles/its-a-story…
Sierra Club California Water Committee retweeted
It's time to see the Sandhill cranes again in the Delta!
#SaveOurCranes
#NoDeltaTunnel
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Still a terrible project, even with all the spin. Hard to see who benefits...definitely not the people in the Delta and definitely not all the people who would be stuck paying the astronomical bill over the next several decades. #NoDeltaTunnel
@Delta_Action @SaveHoodCA
From water reliability to community benefits, the Delta Conveyance Project is designed to secure California’s water future. The @CA_DWR has pulled together FAQs that explain how this project helps protect supplies, support communities, and strengthen our state’s resilience.
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Urban water demand is dropping as people use less. @mwdh2o will raise rates 17% in the next 2 years to cover current costs. “These are the same customers whose water bills and property taxes would increase to pay for a tunnel,” @sencabaldon said.
#nodeltatunnel
@SIERRASUNTIMES
California Legislature Blocks Governor Gavin Newsom’s Attempt to Fast-Track Delta Tunnel; State Senator Christopher Cabaldon Says, “It’s Time To Move On”
#mariposacounty #maderacounty #mercedcounty #fresnocounty #tuolumnecounty
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California’s salmon population has declined so severely that regulators banned fishing in 2023 and again in 2024. The latest estimates show the number of Chinook salmon is still so low that fishing could again be prohibited — or if not, sharply limited. latimes.com/environment/stor…
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With USBR gutted and under control of DOGE, Californians are left exposed to greater risk of flood, and ruined water quality in the SF Bay-Delta with over pumping.
They do not care if we die, become ill, or are ruined economically. And the environment at the intersection of land and water will be trashed.
Update:
DOGE has ordered firings and buyouts at the federal agency that operates water infrastructure in California. "Water experts should manage our water systems, not tech executives." latimes.com/environment/stor…
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A picture is worth a thousand words. California salmon love floodplains, and evolved with them.
The floodplains we have left are mostly rice fields and we need to conserve and manage all of them. If not, we risk losing salmon. 🌾🐟
Cool image showing why aquatic connectivity matters *laterally* as well as up/downriver: These Central Valley juvenile chinook are the same age, but bottom "floodplain fatty" reared in productive off-channel wetlands.
Screenshot from @CalTrout webinar:
youtube.com/watch?v=GqMJw8__…
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Sad no options are being provided to these water districts. According to DWR, it's "$20B+ Tunnel or nothing!"
ALT board room discussion you must buy a tunnel what about stormwater, recycled water and levees?
The urgency of building the #Delta Conveyance Project cannot be overstated. @CA_DWR report estimates a $2.20 return for every dollar spent. Failing to act will jeopardize safe and secure #water for millions. #WaterSecurity #DeltaConveyanceProject watersecurityca.com/2024/05/…
