Courts
Judge questions honesty of Interior Department scientists
Editorial
From Washington Examiner - Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011
Angry federal judge rips 'false testimony' of federal scientists
Column
By Ron Arnold
From Washington Examiner - Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011
Coalition response...Endangered fish species in the Delta must be protected...it's the law. But the law must be applied in a lawful manner and a federal judge has repeatedly found that federal agencies have failed in that effort. Phrases such as unjustified, clearly erroneous, unlawful, bad science and others have been levied at the fishery agencies responsible for federal rules that govern the flow of water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The result of this failure to comply with law has been an ongoing legal effort that never should have taken place if the agencies had done their job right from the beginning. Once again the judge has directed the agencies to rework portions of the biological opinions that govern flows through the Delta to farmers and 25 million Californians. Hopefully they got the message and will correctly rewrite these rules.
Salmon ruling appears to help fish and farmers
Blog
By Jim McCarthy
From Earthjustice - Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011
Coalition response...Missing from this post is the verbal lashing the judge levied at federal agencies and their biologists for submitting testimony in support of the biological opinions that was deemed "unjustified," "clearly erroneous," "unlawful" and "bad science." In his order to require NMFS to rewrite the biological opinion, the judge stated that the "2009 Salmonid BiOp and its RPA are arbitrary, capricious, and unlawful..." Californian can no longer afford "bad science."
Attempts to link farm revenues with water exports overlooks the fact that revenues are driven by prices farmers receive in the market, not water deliveries. As an example, during recent years when environmental regulations and drought restrict water deliveries, lettuce plantings in the westside of the San Joaquin Valley shifted to other parts of the state. Revenues were still obtained on a statewide basis for the lettuce crop but farmers, farmworkers and local communities along the westside suffered.
COURTS
Wanger delivers tongue lashing to government; water users approve
Blog
By John Ellis
From Fresno Bee - Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011
WATER SUPPLY
La Nina is coming, but reservoirs are looking good
Blog
By Mark Grossi
From Fresno Bee - Friday, Sept. 23, 2011
Climate change and California water: A bad situation likely to get worse
Blog
By John Fleck
From Inkstain - Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011
DELTA
CCWD chief sounds off on proposed Delta water plan
Story
From Calaveras Enterprise - Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011
CONGRESS
Salazar's dishonest agency exposed
Blog
By Rep. Devin Nunes
From Rep. Nunes - Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011
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