South Bay cities are preparing to go head-to-head with the federal government this week in a legal battle that could force the Trump administration to plug sewage spilling from Tijuana into San Diego. Local officials filed the lawsuit in March after demanding for more than a year that federal infrastructure along the border be beefed […]
A lawsuit in California’s Imperial Valley could determine who controls the single largest share of Colorado River water in the West — a few hundred landowning farmers, or the elected five-member board of the Imperial Irrigation District. But a newly obtained document shows that the farmer who filed the lawsuit, Mike Abatti, was willing to sidestep that explosive legal […]
Cooler, calmer weather is helping firefighters get a handle on battling the largest wildfires burning across California and preventing new blazes from getting out of control. Temperatures are cooling slightly, and humidity is inching upward due to a weakened high-pressure system that forecasters say will persist through Tuesday.
Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration is working to revive a controversial plan to tax water customers across the state. The governor and others have been pushing to add a new $1 fee to water bills to help provide safe drinking water to more than 300,000 Californians in mostly rural areas. A new version of the tax […]
Imperial Beach, Federal Government to Face-off in Court Over Tijuana Sewage Pollution
/in San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /San Diego Union-Tribuneby Joshua Emerson SmithSouth Bay cities are preparing to go head-to-head with the federal government this week in a legal battle that could force the Trump administration to plug sewage spilling from Tijuana into San Diego. Local officials filed the lawsuit in March after demanding for more than a year that federal infrastructure along the border be beefed […]
California Farm Baron Offered To Drop Water Lawsuit — If His Family Got A Special Exemption
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Palm Springs Desert Sunby Sammy RothA lawsuit in California’s Imperial Valley could determine who controls the single largest share of Colorado River water in the West — a few hundred landowning farmers, or the elected five-member board of the Imperial Irrigation District. But a newly obtained document shows that the farmer who filed the lawsuit, Mike Abatti, was willing to sidestep that explosive legal […]
Break in the Weather Helps California Firefighters Battle Massive Blazes Across State
/in San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Los Angeles Timesby Tony BarbosaCooler, calmer weather is helping firefighters get a handle on battling the largest wildfires burning across California and preventing new blazes from getting out of control. Temperatures are cooling slightly, and humidity is inching upward due to a weakened high-pressure system that forecasters say will persist through Tuesday.
‘Water Tax’ Is Back
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Voice of San Diegoby Sara Libby and Ry RivardGov. Jerry Brown’s administration is working to revive a controversial plan to tax water customers across the state. The governor and others have been pushing to add a new $1 fee to water bills to help provide safe drinking water to more than 300,000 Californians in mostly rural areas. A new version of the tax […]