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EPA suit alleges San Francisco discharges sewage into bay and onto beaches

SFGate

The federal government and the state of California sued the city of San Francisco on Wednesday over the city’s aging combined stormwater-sewer systems, which they allege can release raw...

Feds, state accuse S.F. of dumping sewage into bay, ocean for years

San Francisco Chronicle

The federal and state governments accused San Francisco on Wednesday of discharging huge amounts of untreated wastewater and sewage into the bay and the ocean for many years, violating environmental...

Why no one won in this year’s water wars

Politico

California had (is still having, amazingly) a really good water year. But all the rain and snow is doing almost nothing to lubricate the state’s perpetual conflicts between fish and farms. Neither...

Feds sue San Francisco over shoddy stormwater-sewage system

Courthouse News

The federal government sued the city and county of San Francisco on Wednesday over "its repeated and widespread failures to operate its two combined stormwater-sewer systems and sewage treatment...

Feds to finalize ESA decision for longfin smelt

E&E News

A federal judge on Thursday finalized a settlement under which the Fish and Wildlife Service will finally decide whether a population of longfin smelt will get Endangered Species Act protections,...

Groups demand that San Francisco take less water from river that runs through Modesto area

Modesto Bee

Several environmental groups say San Francisco’s drought risk is overstated and asked the city on Tuesday to reduce its diversion of Tuolumne River water. They said chinook salmon and other...

Rising Waters Bring New Toxics Threat to Hunters Point

Knee Deep Times

“Caution. No trespassing,” reads a sign lashed to the chain link fence separating Parcel E-2 of San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard from the surrounding residential neighborhood. At that...

Are California water pumps putting endangered fish species at risk of extinction? Experts say so.

CBS News

SACRAMENTO -- Are state and federal water pumps killing critically endangered fish species? Environmental activists say it is a well-documented problem in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta...

Newsom’s Delta pitch: It’s for the climate

Politico

SELLING WATER: Gov. Gavin Newsom has a new sales pitch for a tunnel to move more water south from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that past governors have tried and failed to build for five...

As fish deaths increase at pumps, critics urge California agencies to improve protections

Los Angeles Times

Powerful pumps that supply much of California’s population with water have killed several thousand threatened and endangered fish this year, prompting a coalition of environmental groups to demand...

California water agencies broke own rules, possibly killing thousands of endangered fish

Sacramento Bee

“Pumping plants in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta severely harmed or killed almost double the legal amount of Chinook salmon and Steelhead trout in recent months, dealing yet another blow to...

San Francisco nonprofit asks federal judge to expedite proposed listing of endangered local fish

Courthouse News

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Baykeeper, an Oakland-based nonprofit that defends the health of the San Francisco Bay, on Thursday asked a federal judge for a favorable ruling in a fight with the U.S. Fish and...

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