The Biden administration signed off on Friday on its plan for how to run the massive system of pumps, canals, reservoirs that moves water across California, just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office with a very different vision.
The Bureau of Reclamation’s record of decision closes a four-year process to overturn Trump’s previous rules for the Central Valley Project, which both environmentalists and the state of California claimed did not adequately protect endangered fish like the Chinook salmon and Delta smelt and sued over…
Environmental groups have said the changes will do little to stop threatened fish from getting closer to extinction. A table of federal scientific modeling compiled by Jon Rosenfield at the San Francisco Baykeeper, for example, shows that most of the Biden administration’s policy changes are forecast to result in similar or worse outcomes for endangered fish than Trump’s version.
“This is not the Christmas present we asked for and certainly not the lifeline already struggling salmon fishing families needed while neck deep in a two-year salmon fishing shutdown,” said Scott Artis, the executive director of Golden State Salmon Association, in a press release.
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