Next up: Senate.
Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, SF Bay is counting on you! https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-05-01/california-longfin-smelt-endangered-species-repeal
@sfbaykeeper @CALMatters
Newsomâs voluntary agreements (VAs) were recently analyzed as part of the EIS for long-term operations of the Central Valley Project & State Water Project. According to the feds, the VAs would accelerate decline of numerous #EndangeredSpecies, including #salmon & #sturgeon. Far from providing reasonable protection to fish, fisheries, and water quality, Governor Newsomâs plan would make a bad situation worse.
Heat map of impacts, here:
https://baykeeper.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/USBR-2024-Final-EIS-Heatmap-submitted-to-SWRCB.pdf
Newsom touts his proposal as the starting point of a long-term effort to double Central Valley Chinook #Salmon populations from historical levels.
Don't believe him: "There is no way the water & habitat assets theyâve put on the table, will achieve the doubling goal â no way, not possible," as Baykeeper science director @jarosenfield put it https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2024/12/california-new-delta-water-plan-salmon/ via @CALMatters #newsom #cawater #chinook #water
A new plan for California's water would increase the chances that salmon, smelt & steelhead would go #extinct: "Not only do the proposed operations make things no better (for fish in the San Francisco Bay-Delta), they actually make things worse," as our science director @jarosenfield told @CALMatters
https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2024/10/california-delta-plan-trump-newsom-salmon/
#cawater #californiawater #cadelta #endangeredspecies #salmon #chinooksalmon #deltasmelt #steelhead
The fact that this is not todayâs top election story, that itâs not âgame overâ for Trump, & will soon be forgotten says everything about how U.S. media have normalized evil.
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Officials have decided to curtail additional water flows for endangered fish in the #Delta this fall--a recipe for #extinction of the formerly abundant Delta smelt.
As Baykeeper science director @jarosenfield & Friends of the River's Gary Bobker wrote:
"California habitually fails to enforce environmental laws designed to protect our aquatic ecosystems. Following the stateâs lead, federal agencies skimp on environmental safeguards and waive the meager protections they do offer any time protecting the publicâs fish, wildlife, waterways, and water quality, gets in the way of diverting more water to meet Californiaâs seemingly unquenchable demand." https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-10-02/california-water-flow-requirement-debate
#cawater #extinctionisforever #deltasmelt #fish #fishes #californiafish #endangeredspecies #wildlife @ianjames @RestoreTheDelta
Governor #Desantis:
Should we commence with the socialist bailout of Florida following #Milton, let the free market handle it, or send thoughts and prayers?
âSincerely,
The Rest of the USA
@AxiosNews @axios-local-tampa-bay-AxiosNews
@desantiswarroom
FCC chair slams Trumpâs call to revoke CBS and ABC broadcast licenses
Trump's "threats against free speech are serious," Jessica Rosenworcel says.
San Francisco Baykeeper
Sarah Taber
Ars Technica