Bay-Delta

Their extreme agenda is easily exposed by policy riders that include: blocking EPA funding for regulating greenhouse gasses, effectively overruling the U.S. Supreme Court's 2007 ruling that greenhouse gasses must be regulated under the Clean Air Act; preventing EPA from restoring Clean Water Act protections to over 20 million acres of wetlands and streams; and attacking the Endangered Species Act so as to deprive California's Bay-Delta of a sustainable life-giving water supply.

Jamie Rappaport Clark: What Tough Budget Choices? The Anti-Environmental House Majority Is Having a Ball Jamie Rappaport Clark 2011

Efforts to protect the habitat of another fish, the Delta smelt, pushed San Bernardino's Water Department to look at ways to reduce the amount of water it draws from the Bay-Delta, the state's northern water source and the smelt's home.

Fish Swims Into Water Fight Tamara Audi 2011

For example, they would have stopped the EPA from applying Clean Water Act protections to many waterways threatened with pollution, blocked the implementation of the Supreme Court decision that concluded carbon dioxide is a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, and stopped efforts to restore iconic American ecosystems including the Chesapeake Bay and the San Francisco Bay-Delta.

Frances Beinecke: Tea Party Leaders in House Resume Their Assault on Environmental Safeguards Frances Beinecke 2011

For example, they would have stopped the EPA from applying Clean Water Act protections to many waterways threatened with pollution, blocked the implementation of the Supreme Court decision that concluded carbon dioxide is a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, and stopped efforts to restore iconic American ecosystems including the Chesapeake Bay and the San Francisco Bay-Delta.

Frances Beinecke: Tea Party Leaders in House Resume Their Assault on Environmental Safeguards Frances Beinecke 2011

Their extreme agenda is easily exposed by policy riders that include: blocking EPA funding for regulating greenhouse gasses, effectively overruling the U.S. Supreme Court's 2007 ruling that greenhouse gasses must be regulated under the Clean Air Act; preventing EPA from restoring Clean Water Act protections to over 20 million acres of wetlands and streams; and attacking the Endangered Species Act so as to deprive California's Bay-Delta of a sustainable life-giving water supply.

Jamie Rappaport Clark: What Tough Budget Choices? The Anti-Environmental House Majority Is Having a Ball Jamie Rappaport Clark 2011

Last December the Administration signed an interim action plan to protect the Bay-Delta, which provides drinking water to 25 million Californians and sustains $400 billion in annual economic activity.

Secretary Salazar's Remarks at FY 2011 Budget Press Conference 2010

We've known for years that water exports from the Bay-Delta cannot continue growing to meet California's water needs.

Doug Obegi: California's Water Problems Weren't Caused By a Fish: We Need a 21st Century Water Policy for Fish and People 2009

The longfin smelt was historically one of the most abundant fish species in the Bay-Delta, but in the past several decades its population has been plummeting and is now at risk of extinction (joining a long list of species that are declining as a result of unsustainable actions in the estuary).

Doug Obegi: California's Water Problems Weren't Caused By a Fish: We Need a 21st Century Water Policy for Fish and People 2009

That's why it isn't surprising that the California Department of Fish and Game today considered water pumping restrictions in the Bay-Delta to protect longfin smelt from being sucked into the export pumps of the state and federal water projects.

Doug Obegi: California's Water Problems Weren't Caused By a Fish: We Need a 21st Century Water Policy for Fish and People 2009

New dams, a revamped plumbing system for the Bay-Delta, and desalination plants on the coast are the main items under discussion.

Robert Glennon: Singin' in the Rain 2009