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Judge Upholds Protection for Wild Central Valley Steelhead In a major defeat for the "wise use" movement, A U.S. District Court judge has rejected an attempt by California irrigators and logging industry groups to strip protected status from five populations of wild steelhead trout. Today's ruling rejects two separate challenges to steelhead protection in California, according to a news release from Earthjustice.
This ruling takes place as Central Valley salmon populations and Delta smelt, longfin smelt, juvenile striped bass, threadfin shad and o...
Posted: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 6:34pm PDT
Yuba River Salmon Tours Begin November 1 
In partnership with the San Francisco-based Environmental Traveling Companions, SYRCL (the South Yuba River Citizens League) is sponsoring their annual Salmon Raft Tours for the public starting this weekend. The dates are: Saturday, Nov. 1st, Saturday, Nov. 8th and Saturday, Nov. 15th.
Photo: Source to Sea-er Will Grant holds up a chinook salmon carcass on the Yuba River (the fish died naturally after spawning)....
Posted: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 11:02am PDT
Drilling and Killing: Landmark Trial Against Chevron Begins Over Its Role in the Niger Delta Tuesday, October 28, 2008 :A landmark trial has begun against the oil giant Chevron. A San Francisco district court is hearing a case brought by Nigerian plaintiffs who accuse Chevron of recruiting and supplying Nigerian military forces involved in May 1998 shooting and killing of protesters in the oil-rich Niger Delta. The protesters were occupying a Chevron-owned oil platform called the Parabe, demanding jobs and compensation for environmental damage to their communities....
Posted: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 7:45am PDT
Restore the Delta: Support San Joaquin River Restoration 
Restore the Delta Alert: Support San Joaquin River Restoration
Restore the Delta is asking you right now to take special action on behalf of protecting the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the West Coast's largest and most significant estuary. The federal San Joaquin River Restoration Bill is now under attack by the Central Valley exchange water contractors and needs your support, according to this action alert from Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla.
"Restoring fresh water flows to the San Joa...
Posted: Mon, Oct 27, 2008 1:29pm PDT
State of Bay-Delta Science Book: Fact or Fiction? The CAL-FED "Science" Program has published a book, the "State of Bay-Delta Science, 2008," summarizing the "new knowledge" gleaned from eight years of CAL-FED science research into water supply and water quality, ecosystems and levee fragility in the California Delta. Unfortunately, the same agency that published the book has presided over unprecedented collapses of Central Valley chinook salmon and Delta fish populations in recent years....
Posted: Wed, Oct 22, 2008 8:26am PDT
Rigoberta Menchú to Speak at Delta College Oct. 22, 11 a.m. 
Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Prize winner and courageous advocate for human rights in Guatemala and elsewhere in Las Americas, will speak at Delta College's Tillie Lewis Theater on October 22 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. She is a survivor of the Reagan administration-engineered genocide of the Mayan people in Guatemala.
The genocide occurred under the "scorched earth" policy of the "born again butcher," Jose Efrain Rios Montt. One of the most vicious tyrants in recent Guatemalan history, Rios Montt...
Posted: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 3:10pm PDT
Delta Vision Task Force Proposes Peripheral Canal, More Dams 
Everybody who cares about the future of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and its precious and imperiled fish populations should challenge the Governor's Blue Ribbon Delta Vision Task Force's advocacy of a peripheral canal and more dams. The task force's "new" proposals are nothing other than tired, old plans, masked in deceiving "eco-friendly" language, to bail out corporate agribusiness from decades of unsustainable use of selenium-laced soil that should have never been irrigated!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 16, 2008 1:51pm PDT
Environmental Leader Dorothy Green Passes Away 
In the early morning of Monday, October 13, 2008 well-known environmentalist Dorothy Green passed away after a 30-year battle with melanoma. She served on the statewide board that directed the fight to stop the Peripheral Canal when it was on the ballot in 1982. At a time when Central Valley chinook salmon and California Delta fish populations are collapsing because of record water exports, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senator Diane Feinstein are supporting the construction of a new ver...
Posted: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 4:50pm PDT
Stop SFPUC Water Grab on the Tuolumne River! 
The Tuolumne River Trust is fighting a proposal by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) to divert more water desperately needed by salmon and steelhead on the Tuolumne River....
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 4:54pm PDT
Labor Community Rally October 6 For Beaten and Arrested ILWU Local 10 Members 
On October 6, 2008 trade unionists and community activists rallied at the Yolo County Courthouse to protest the trial of two ILUW members Jason Ruffin and Aaron Harrision who were beaten and arrested in August 2007 after returning to work after lunch. The rally speakers pointed out that the Yolo County sheriff's have a long history of racial profiling and racist attacks....
Posted: Fri, Oct 10, 2008 12:49pm PDT
Schwarzenegger Highlights "Green Policies" as California Fisheries Collapse! 
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger gushed about "green policies" and "clean, green technology" Thursday when he gave the keynote address at TechNet’s “Growing Green Technology in California” forum. Ironically, this was the same Schwarzenegger who last week engaged in a veto frenzy of key environmental legislation, including landmark air pollution, water recycling and fish protection bills.
Photo: Governor Schwarzenegger exhorts the audience about his "green policies" at at TechNet’s “Growing G...
Posted: Thu, Oct 9, 2008 5:14pm PDT
Schwarzenegger Vetoes Significant Air Quality, Fish Protection Bills 
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed some of the top environmental bills on his desk this week, including the most significant air quality bill for this sesson, SB 974, and Lois Wolk's Fish Rescue Plans bill, AB 1806.
Photo: Schwarzenegger playing the "Green Governor" role at Monday's "Green Chemistry Program" press conference in Sacramento. Photo from the Governor's Office....
Posted: Thu, Oct 2, 2008 9:25am PDT
Schwarzenegger Vetoes Fish Rescue Plans Bill, Campaigns For Delta’s Destruction 
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, hailed as the “Green Governor” in his news conferences and photo opportunities touting “green jobs” in recent weeks, showed his true anti-environmental credentials today when he vetoed the Fish Rescue Plans Bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Lois Wolk.
Photo: Schwarzenegger plays his "Green Governor" role on Monday as he signs legislation implementing a "Green Chemistry Program." Photo from the Governor's Office....
Posted: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 5:44pm PDT
Schwarzenegger: A 'Green Economy' in the Wake of a Dead Delta? 
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose horrendous environmental policies have resulted in ecological catastrophe for the California Delta and the collapse of Central Valley salmon runs, today again attempted to delude the media and the public about his environmental record by mouthing off about his "committment to building a green economy."
Schwarzenegger announced his alleged committment to "green jobs" after he signed AB 3018 by Speaker Emeritus Fabian Nuñez that creates a Green Collar Jo...
Posted: Fri, Sep 26, 2008 5:32pm PDT
Conservation Groups Assail Bush Endangered Species Rewrite Below is the press release concerning the hearing today in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to discuss and take testimony on the Regulation changes to the ESA. We hope you'll consider sending letters to members and Secretary Kempthorne opposing the regulations and expressing outrage at the process used by the administration. More will follow after the hearings.
If it wasn't for the Endangered Species Act, dozens of species would be already extinct in California, including ...
Posted: Thu, Sep 25, 2008 2:17pm PDT
The 'Green Governor' Slashes Funding for Endangered Species 
When he signed California’s long overdue state budget today, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, true to his role as the "Fish Terminator," blue penciled $3.1 million in funding from a key program run by the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to restore endangered and threatened salmon, steelhead and other species.
Photo: Schwarzenegger signs the state budget today....
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2008 5:33pm PDT
CSPA sues City of Stockton over waste water treatment plant The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) is suing the city of Stockton for numerous violations of the Clean Water Act in the operation of the city's waste water treatment plant. “Stockton’s wastewater control system is a public health and environmental hazard,” said CSPA Executive Director Bill Jennings.
The lawsuit is filed at a time when Central Valley fall chinook salmon and California Delta pelagic fish populations are in a state of collapse, due to record water exports fro...
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2008 8:48am PDT
Bush Withholds Salmon Disaster Money As He Pushes For Corporate Bailouts! 
As George Bush pushes Congress to bail out Wall Street corporations, he refuses to immediately release $70 million out of the $170 million appropriated by Congress for disaster relief to salmon fishermen and businesses impacted by this year's salmon closures....
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2008 11:03am PDT
Klamath River Tribes and Fishermen: No Business As Usual At PacifiCorp 
Hundreds of Klamath River community members today marched from Holladay Park in Portland to PacifiCorp’s headquarters to demand the removal of the lower four Klamath River dams.
Photo: Local activists dropped this banner over Interstate 84 in solidarity with the Klamath River Indian Tribes and recreational and commercial fishermen this morning....
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2008 5:07pm PDT
CSPA Intervenes to Stop Toxic Discharges from McClellan Air Force Base The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) is seeking status as a "designated party" with the Regional Water Quality Control Board to stop increased discharge of toxic chemicals into Central Valley waterways from the decommissioned McClellan Air Force Base. The increased toxic discharge would further imperil collapsing populations of Central Valley salmon, delta smelt, longfin smelt, theadfin shad, striped bass and other species....
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2008 6:19pm PDT