BK In The News: March 31, 2020
... “I think that the Newsom administration is employing some cold, political triangulation and their position here is that, ‘We don’t have to protect our endangered species, we don’t have to protect water quality in the delta or the San Francisco Bay estuary fisheries, we just have to be better...
Blog Post: March 25, 2020
In a new lawsuit, Governor Newsom is pushing back against a water grab by the Trump administration. But at the same time, Newsom’s agencies are working to enact eerily similar moves at the state level.
It all goes back to how California’s precious fresh water supply is allocated.
In a typical year...
Blog Post: November 11, 2019
In a draft review from July of this year, federal scientists found that the Trump administration's plans for federal dams and water diversions in California would make a bad situation worse.
California's fish are already in trouble. Industrial farms and big cities suck up too much of the water from...
BK In The News: October 31, 2019
By Jon Rosenfield and Gary Bobker
In a devastating blow to the San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta estuary last week, the Trump administration eliminated science-based protections for five of this ecosystem’s endangered fish species. An effort to revise safeguards for...
BK In The News: October 25, 2019
The Trump administration this week declared that its plan to pump more water from the Bay-Delta will not jeopardize endangered species... But Jon Rosenfield, a senior scientist with the environmental group San Francisco Baykeeper, said marginal gains from the plan won’t be worth the harm to...
Column: June 4, 2019
As the dust settles from the whirlwind transition of the California governor’s office, it’s a relief that the new statehouse has squashed the Delta tunnels water project.
The proposal for massive twin tunnels through the Delta was an expensive infrastructure project—deceptively named “WaterFix”—...
Blog Post: May 21, 2019
For decades, San Francisco Bay and the California Delta have been starved for fresh water. As cities and farms suck water from Sierra rivers, only a trickle of fresh water is left to flow unimpeded through the Delta to the Bay.
This practice is unsustainable—and has pushed the Bay-Delta estuary to...
BK In The News: May 15, 2019
By SEJAL CHOKSI CHUGH
As the dust settles from the whirlwind transition of the California governor’s office, it’s a relief to see that the new statehouse has squashed the massive Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta tunnels water project.
Conservation, fishing, and community groups welcomed the...
Blog Post: April 2, 2019
California’s water wars are often framed as fish versus Big Ag. But a new study reveals just how much fish are losing out.
Lobbyists for industrial agriculture and big cities, including some in the Bay Area, have warped the debate around water use in California.
They claim that protections for...
BK In The News: March 21, 2019
The winter kicked off with the State Water Resources Control Board’s December vote to adopt increased flow objectives ... "Governor Newsom has staked out turf against the Trump Administration," says San Francisco Baykeeper’s Jon Rosenfield. "Water management and endangered species are going to be...