Legislation

Senator Feinstein has reached out to Thomas J. Vilsack, secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and to Shaun Donovan, director of the Office of Management and Budget, to make additional funds available to assist with California’s tree mortality crisis. California has an estimated 66 million dead trees in the …

Two water bills seeking to restructure and reform the Central Basin Municipal Water District (CBMWD) are now awaiting Governor Jerry Brown’s signature after having passed their respective houses. Both bills follow an audit of CBMWD eight months ago by the state which criticized the district for political and a host …

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has urged all levels of government agencies – state, federal and local – to step up their efforts to save the Salton Sea. Boxer spoke Thursday at the lakebed’s south shore Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge and expressed her concern for the slow action toward …

Civil Engineer Steven Moore has been unanimously reconfirmed as a member of the State Water Resources Control Board by the California State Senate after the June recommendation by the Senate Rules Committee. He was first appointed May 10, 2012, to the State Water Board, and was re-confirmed on Aug. 1. …

A bill targeting to save California’s source watersheds recently passed in the Assembly and is now headed to a hearing on June 28 in the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. AB 2480, authored by Richard Bloom (D -Santa Monica) would officially recognize five critical Sierra Nevada and Cascade watersheds …

In a first-ever, nine Bay Area county vote, Measure AA earned 69.3 percent in favor of funding wetlands restoration and flood control projects around the San Francisco Bay shoreline. The measure needed a two thirds majority of votes to pass. David Lewis, executive director of Save the Bay, Oakland, referred …