By CORAL DAVENPORTMAY 27, 2015
Gina McCarthy, the E.P.A. administrator, last month in Chicago. The rule is
being issued under the 1972 Clean Water Act Credit Joshua Lott for The New York Time
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday announced a sweeping new clean water regulation meant to restore the federal government’s authority to limit pollution in the nation’s rivers, lakes, streams and wetlands.
AFFTA President Ben Bulis speaks with U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen
AFFTA President Ben Bulis traveled to Washington, DC this week to speak out on behalf of our waterways and habitat, as well as our health and vitality as an industry. The proposed new rulemaking for the Clean Water Act will protect many of our small streams, which are important spawning grounds for fish. Our industry will not survive without healthy fisheries…and access to them.
Habitat photo of Chagoopa Creek, one of the proposed project sites.
CA Dept. of Fish & Wildlife/Tracy Purpuro
SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. May 20, 2015 – The public is welcome to comment on a project proposed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to collect genetically pure Kern River rainbow trout (KRRT) from three populations located in the wilderness of Sequoia National Park. The State of California, through its Heritage and Wild Trout Program proposes to restore the naturally indigenous Kern River rainbow trout to their original California source watersheds. In 2013, CDFW determined that Sequoia National Park supports the best populations of KRRT for conservation and native source watershed restoration.
Posted on May 10, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 creates an opportunity to establish standards for the way California accounts for its stores of groundwater, which provide up to 60 percent of the state’s water supply during droughts.
Don’t you think that vital headwater streams such as this should be protected from pollution?
Photo by Phil Monahan
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to block a set of rules proposed last year by the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect headwater streams under the Clean Water Act. Yesterday, a group of some of the more influential executives in the fly-fishing industry sent an open letter to Congress, asking legislators to consider how vital these protections are to the health of our ecosystem.
NICK STOCKTON SCIENCE 04.01.15 7:56 PM Wired.com
A skier threads his way through patches of dry ground at Squaw Valley Ski Resort,
March 21, 2015 in Olympic Valley, California. MAX WHITTAKER/GETTY IMAGES
HE MAY HAVE dropped the news on April Fools Day, but California Governor Jerry Brown’s new water rules are no joke. Issued while standing in the bone dry Sierra Nevada mountains—which are usually packed with snow this time of year—Brown’s executive order will affect every user in the state, from cities to golf courses, parks to agriculture.
The edict attacks the water shortage in four ways: by reducing water waste, implementing stricter waste enforcement, streamlining the bureaucratic processes for water management, and developing new technologies to reduce both usage and waste. Most strikingly, Brown’s plan called for a statewide, mandatory reduction of water use in cities and towns by 25 percent.
