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KQED
‘The state is responsible for reviewing and updating water quality standards. And for at least 14 years, the state has not acknowledged that its water quality standards are inadequate to protect fish...
Bay Nature
“We can’t control the strength of the tides, can’t really control climate change in our region or the amount of fog over the Bay, we can’t control sun distribution,” says Ian Wren, staff scientist at...
CapRadio
Indigenous leaders and environmental groups gathered at California’s Capitol on Wednesday to rally for better access to clean water. Advocates specifically expressed support for a trio of bills that...
Bay City News
"Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that declining fish populations are driven by unsustainable water diversions, the Newsom administration has taken every opportunity to increase water...
Daily Kos
SACRAMENTO — Representatives of California Tribes, fishing groups and conservation groups held a big rally at the State Capitol on July 5 to advocate for water rights and to protest the Governor’s...
KQED
More than 500,000 gallons of sewage spilled from a maintenance hole in El Sobrante, according to a local wastewater treatment agency. The waste leaked into nearby San Pablo Creek.
Maven's Notebook
This year, as California’s extreme drought gives way to floods, the need for a science-based plan for sustainable water management has never been more clear. Such a plan would align human demands and...
San Francisco Examiner
A Supreme Court ruling on Thursday diminished the federal government’s ability to regulate wetlands, which California environmental advocates say erodes established clean water protections.
KCBS
Environmentalists are upset over a US Supreme Court ruling that changes the way the EPA can regulate wetlands. Cathy Whitman repots on what it means for the Bay Area.
KQED
The Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Water Act only applies to wetlands with aboveground flow to main-stem rivers and other big bodies of water. California passed stronger environmental rules in...
San Jose Mercury News
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Thursday sharply limited the federal government’s authority to police water pollution into certain wetlands, the second decision in as many years in which a...
San Francisco Chronicle
Full of cold, fresh rainwater and snowmelt from the Sierra, the San Francisco Bay is in a strikingly different place than it was last summer. Water gushing out of the delta is flushing out pollutants...