A state agency is clarifying a local alert that environmental groups are showing up uninvited to farms in California’s Central Valley to disrupt chemical spray operations, which the state says is erroneous…
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A coalition of Delta-based groups has sent a formal Petition for Reconsideration to the State Water Board opposing the Board’s June 1 order to relax water quality standards for Delta operations of the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project. The Temporary Urgency Change Order (TUCO) was issued by the Water Board on June 1, 2021…
The acting head of the EPA’s enforcement office issued a memorandum on June 21, 2021 (the “Memorandum”), that outlines actions to advance the EPA’s environmental justice (“EJ”) goals in criminal enforcement matters…
In a busy five-acre industrial pocket of Lincoln Heights, north of Downtown Los Angeles, zigzagged with metro lines and freeways and car-choked roads, developers plan to build a 468-unit apartment complex called the Avenue 34 Project…
An entire town in California is without running water as the state suffers a drought and a heat wave pushes temperatures into the triple digits…
More than 700 residents of a town in California have reportedly been left without running water in the middle of a heat wave…
Jamie Callahan, 35, of Sacramento, has been appointed Chief of Staff and Policy Advisor to the Chair for the California Air Resources Board…
The only functioning well in the rural community of Teviston broke in early June, leaving more than 700 residents without running water…
WHEREAS, pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26(c) and 29, and Local Rule 141.1, the Parties agree that it is appropriate to limit the disclosure of certain confidential information produced in the course of discovery…
A rural Central Valley community is without running water during a heat wave, prompting authorities to haul in bottles and jugs of water to more than 700 people in Teviston…