Both the state’s Senate Finance and Governance Committee and the Assembly Local Government Committee voted last week to approve different versions of bills to reform the Central Basin Municipal Water District (CBMWD) headquartered in Commerce. Both bills seek to increase accountability within the agency following a history of poor leadership …
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California’s Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-23) have both individually written letters late last week urging President Obama to direct federal officials to increase pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta immediately. Both legislators are seeking Obama’s direction to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife …
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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) recently issued a statement asking federal agencies to increase pumping and store more water during the March storms, as much as possible, within the bounds of the biological opinions. A statement from Sen. Feinstein said, “Between Jan. 1 and March 6 last year, 1.3 million acre …
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Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) introduced Senate Bill 1317, commonly known as the Aquifer Protection Act last week which requires cities and counties overlying high and medium priority basins to apply conditions to permits for new wells by July 1, 2017, to prevent undesirable impacts on aquifers. The bill also prohibits new …
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On Friday, Congressmen Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) and Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) introduced a bill, which would respond to the closure of estuary restoration projects and improve the Estuary Restoration Act of 2000 (ERA). Under the ERA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are allowed to enter into private partnerships with …
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In Washington, Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) met with the California Farm Bureau Federation’s (CFBF) Board of Directors to discuss the severity of the California drought. McCarthy discussed prospective federal drought legislation with the CFBF. The meeting comes after Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced her drought legislation in the …
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