L.A. Times - Environment:
Southern California has embraced water conservation, but it must be more than a temporary response to drought. California did it. This mon (Read More)
Los Angeles Times - Opinion:
Water conservation must be more than a temporary response to drought Southern California has embraced water conservation, but it must be m (Read More)
L.A. Times - Home & Garden:
Don't overlook salvia, not only water-hardy and low-maintenance but bright blooming, aromatic and uniquely suited to the California landscape. (Read More)
LA Times:
More than $1 billion in an $11-billion measure to provide clean water will go toward pet projects. Opponents worry that discredited ideas could be revived. (Read More)
SF Gate:
Slumping sales expectations dragged down shares of surf- and skatewear retailer Pacific Sunwear of California Inc. in premarket trading on Tuesday. On Monday, the Anaheim, Calif., company posted a deeper third-quarter loss an (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Obituaries:
Thomas J. Graff, 65, who helped transform the nation's water policy as the longtime regional office director in California for the Environmental Defense Fund, died Nov. 12 at a hospital in Oakland after battling thyroid cance (Read More)
SF Gate:
The $11 billion water bond that California voters will be asked to approve next year contains nearly $2 billion in earmarks that lawmakers candidly acknowledge were included in the proposal to win the votes that were needed t (Read More)
SF Gate:
Two environmental groups sued the federal government Friday seeking greater habitat protections for two San Francisco Bay-delta fish species, one of them the delta smelt, a small but important creature in California's water w (Read More)
LA Times:
California's biggest statewide problem is -- and always has been -- how to share water. Years ago, pundits and pols began redrawing the Ca (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Obituaries:
Thomas J. Graff, 65, who helped transform the nation's water policy as the longtime regional office director in California for the advocacy group Environmental Defense Fund, died Nov. 12 at a hospital in Oakland after a more (Read More)
SF Gate:
Thomas J. Graff, who opened the California office of the Environmental Defense Fund 38 years ago and almost single-handedly transformed environmental politics and water policies in California, died Thursday after a 2 1/2-year (Read More)
SF Gate:
When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was promoting a complex legislative package to rebuild California's water system, he often appeared alongside farmers who were unable to cultivate their land amid a third year of drought and fe (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Happy Thursday, TreeHuggers. Everyone knows that America spends a ton of money on health care. But it turns out we spend a lot of fossil fuels on it, too. In fact, a recent study found that a full 8 percent of our carbon emis (Read More)
Los Angeles Times - Top News:
The vote by the Metropolitan Water District board means the private venture could get up to $350 million. Coastal groups opposed the action. (Read More)
SF Gate:
Framed by a shrinking mountain reservoir, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a far-reaching water bond on Monday intended to rebuild California's crumbling water system and fund new dams to save up the precious resource for dr (Read More)
SF Gate:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a far-reaching water bond passed last week by the California Legislature intended to restore the ailing estuary at the heart of the state's water system. Standing against the backdrop of (Read More)
SF Gate:
An $11.1 billion water bond approved this week by California lawmakers is filled with special interest earmarks that reward legislative districts in nearly every corner of the state, from $20 million for economic development (Read More)
SFGate: Chronicle Op-Ed:
For decades, California's water wars have flared unabated - cities versus farms, north against south - while half measures left the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta drained and decimated. (Read More)
Los Angeles Times - Opinion:
Sacramento sets goals and creates frameworks but doesn't make many hard decisions. It's a start, though. The package adopted by the Legisl (Read More)
SFGate: Chronicle Op-Ed:
The California Legislature did something this week it hasn't done for three decades. It approved a sweeping new strategy for the state's most important estuary and the hub of our statewide water system, the Sacramento-San Joa (Read More)