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Last Notes npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James Trump administration releases long-awaited 10-year plan for dwindling Colorado River https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-07-31/trump-administration-colorado-river-plan npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James The Trump administration plans to increase the water it’s sending to Central Valley farmlands from Shasta Lake this year. Environmental and fishing groups say this threatens to harm salmon by depriving them of vital cold water. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-05-21/california-water-salmon-trump-dam-plan npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James How failing negotiations could spiral into a bitter fight over the Colorado River npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James The Trump administration's plan to pump more water in California is ill-conceived and harmful, lawmakers say https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-12-15/trump-water-pumping-congress npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James "It’s scientific censorship at its worst," @npub1ke2…meew says. "This is the modern version of book burning." https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-07-01/trump-us-climate-website npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James The Trump administration has shut down a federal website on climate change, taking down congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment reports and extensive information on how global warming is affecting the country. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-07-01/trump-us-climate-website npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James The company that sells Arrowhead bottled water has won a court ruling overturning a decision by California regulators, who had ordered it to stop piping millions of gallons of water from a national forest. The judge ruled the state water board "exceeded its authority." https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-05-08/arrowhead-bottled-water-ruling npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James National forests are on the chopping block. Trump’s order to expand U.S. timber production includes all of California’s national forests. “This is a thinly veiled attempt to ramp up logging on our national forests, bypass environmental laws, and line the pockets of the timber industry.” https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-04-12/trumps-timber-production-california-national-forests npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James “Depraved and mind-blowing”: Water officials knew that opening dams to meet Trump’s wishes was ill-advised. Here’s why it happened anyway: npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James "For a political photo op and a social media post, the Trump administration has thrown away billions of gallons of California water." @npub1ke2…meew says it was “a needlessly self-destructive action purely for political showmanship.” https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-02-03/trump-administration-dams-release-water npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James Acting on Trump's order, the Army Corps of Engineers opened up two California dams npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James Adel Hagekhalil has been ousted by the Metropolitan Water District's board after a seven-month investigation into allegations of sexism that exposed deep divisions within the agency. Hagekhalil denies wrongdoing. His lawyer says he will "pursue all his legal options." https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-29/mwd-manager-investigation npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James "Whoever Trump puts in now will be viewed as loyalists, and that undermines the entire system," one of the fired watchdogs told The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/24/trump-fire-inspectors-general-federal-agencies/ npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James Peter Gleick says Trump’s order on California water policy “is what you get when you mix bluster, ignorance, and disinformation.” npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James Trump wants to upend California water policy. State officials say it could do harm. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-23/trump-california-water-policy npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James In his latest column, my colleague Sammy Roth examines new developments in the rebranding of Cadiz Inc.: npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James Trump campaign denies and revokes journalists’ election night credentials after critical coverage https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/05/media/trump-revokes-journalists-election-night-credentials/index.html npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James Invasive golden mussels have been found in North America for first time, posing a threat in California’s Delta https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-11-02/invasive-golden-mussels-invade-california-delta-first-time-in-north-america npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James The Biden and Newsom administrations will soon adopt new rules for California’s major water delivery systems that will determine how much water may be pumped while providing protections for imperiled fish species. The proposed changes are controversial. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-10-26/new-california-water-rules-are-being-written-amid-controversy npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James Just weeks after the removal of dams restored a free-flowing Klamath River, salmon have made their way upstream to begin spawning and have been spotted in Oregon for the first time in more than a century. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-10-19/klamath-salmon-thriving npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James California water regulators are cracking down on a second farming area in the San Joaquin Valley for failing to take adequate steps to curb overpumping that is depleting groundwater and causing the land to sink. In some areas, the ground has sunk as much as 7 feet since 2015. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-21/california-puts-another-farm-area-on-groundwater-probation npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James Worst drought on record lowers Amazon rivers to all-time lows https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/worst-drought-record-lowers-amazon-rivers-all-time-lows-2024-09-18/ npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James Rising from shrinking saline lakes and fallowed farm fields, the West's worsening dust storms threaten public health — Important reporting by Felicity Barringer: https://andthewest.stanford.edu/2024/rising-from-dead-and-dying-lakes-western-dust-storms-menace-species-drivers-and-public-health/ npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James In today's L.A. Times: npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James The last of the four dams have been breached, and the Klamath River is flowing freely in its channel for the first time in more than a century. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-28/klamath-river-dam-removal-completed npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James The largest dam removal project in U.S. history is nearing completion. Crews have almost finished dismantling the last of the four dams on the Klamath River. In mid-August, I saw excavators carving away at remnants of two dams — Iron Gate and Copco No. 1. Soon workers will clear channels, reestablishing a free-flowing stretch of the river for the first time in more than a century. npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James From the Middle East to Latin America, water-related violence is on the rise. Newly compiled data from the Pacific Institute's Water Conflict Chronology shows 2023 was a record year. npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James The U.S. Forest Service has ordered the company that sells Arrowhead bottled water to shut down its pipeline that draws water from springs in the San Bernardino Mountains. The decision could end the long fight over the company's extraction of water from public lands. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-07/arrowhead-bottled-water-permit npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James California’s spring-run Chinook salmon were already in the midst of a population crash before the Park fire exploded into the state’s fourth-largest wildfire in history. Biologists now worry the fire could push the fish closer to extinction by scorching forests along creeks that provide critical spawning habitat. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-06/park-fire-threatens-critical-california-salmon-habitat npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James "The new study shows we need dramatically new thinking about water. Instead of doubling down on the failed water policies of the 20th century, the Newsom administration has the rare opportunity to pivot to new approaches and a new vision for California water." @npub1ke2…meew https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-07-31/california-water-supplies-will-shrink-over-the-next-20-years npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James “A major expansion of gages would permit us to more accurately monitor and enforce water-rights allocations, determine ecological conditions and needs for threatened and endangered fisheries, and improve California’s resilience to both floods and droughts.” — @npub1ke2…meew https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-06-18/california-stream-gauges npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James Scientists have found that only 8% of California rivers and streams have gages measuring flow. npub18jcr5zy6t92q3paevc8jw3uvr4hf227gxrq8c8gd735mgg9dyhnq58xtzk Ian James Earthrise
