Speaking on May 18 to the Mountain Counties Water Resources Association, Phil Isenberg said, “I have learned the hardest thing in public life to do is change human behavior. It’s a lot easier to pass a law than to get people to like it and to pay attention to it.” With 50 years of public […]
El Niño has passed on its merry way after 17 months of unusual warmth, wet weather, and unusual storms from the Pacific Ocean around the world. The big story for this El Niño has been whether it would aid dry California’s comeback from a drought. The answer is mixed. “In California, it’s all about location, location, location,” Jan […]
What does the future hold for California’s weather and climate? Is drought the new normal? And what about La Niña? We talked to Daniel Swain—founder of the popular California Weather Blog and a Stanford University climate scientist—about our volatile climate.
A popular Delta sportfish may be on the hook yet again after water users mostly south of the estuary asked state officials this week to allow more of the fish to be caught, in order to reduce their numbers.A nearly identical proposal, ardently opposed by Delta fishermen, was rejected in early 2012 by the state […]
A California public water district that has lost several legal battles over flows released for Klamath River salmon and earned a rare federal penalty over what it described as “a little Enron accounting” loaned one of its executives $1.4 million to buy a riverfront home, and the loan remains unpaid nine years later although the […]
(TNS) — Measure AA, a landmark $12 annual parcel tax in all nine Bay Area counties to fund wetlands restoration and flood control projects around San Francisco Bay’s shoreline, appears to have won approval from voters. The measure, which would raise $25 million a year for 20 years, and needed two-thirds to pass, and had […]
Phil Isenberg: What’s Next for the Delta?
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Water Deeply (New York)by Tara LohanSpeaking on May 18 to the Mountain Counties Water Resources Association, Phil Isenberg said, “I have learned the hardest thing in public life to do is change human behavior. It’s a lot easier to pass a law than to get people to like it and to pay attention to it.” With 50 years of public […]
El Nino Has Runs its Course. But Did it End California’s Drought?
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /The Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Mass.)by Lucy SchoutenEl Niño has passed on its merry way after 17 months of unusual warmth, wet weather, and unusual storms from the Pacific Ocean around the world. The big story for this El Niño has been whether it would aid dry California’s comeback from a drought. The answer is mixed. “In California, it’s all about location, location, location,” Jan […]
BLOG: A Weatherman Explains California’s Volatile Climate
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Public Policy Institute of California (San Francisco)by Lori PottingerWhat does the future hold for California’s weather and climate? Is drought the new normal? And what about La Niña? We talked to Daniel Swain—founder of the popular California Weather Blog and a Stanford University climate scientist—about our volatile climate.
Water Users Target Delta Fish — Again
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Stockton RecordA popular Delta sportfish may be on the hook yet again after water users mostly south of the estuary asked state officials this week to allow more of the fish to be caught, in order to reduce their numbers.A nearly identical proposal, ardently opposed by Delta fishermen, was rejected in early 2012 by the state […]
Westlands Water District: Questions raised over loan water giant gave to former agency official
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Associated Press ( As Published by Eureka Times Standard)by ELLEN KNICKMEYERA California public water district that has lost several legal battles over flows released for Klamath River salmon and earned a rare federal penalty over what it described as “a little Enron accounting” loaned one of its executives $1.4 million to buy a riverfront home, and the loan remains unpaid nine years later although the […]
Will the $500 Million ‘Save the Bay’ Bill Restore California Wetlands?
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /The San Jose Mercury News (As Published by Government Technology)by Paul Rogers(TNS) — Measure AA, a landmark $12 annual parcel tax in all nine Bay Area counties to fund wetlands restoration and flood control projects around San Francisco Bay’s shoreline, appears to have won approval from voters. The measure, which would raise $25 million a year for 20 years, and needed two-thirds to pass, and had […]