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First-in-the-Nation Water Affordability Program Heads to Governor’s Desk
Today, the California legislature made history by passing SB 222 (Dodd) which will create the first statewide water and sewer rate assistance program in the country.
Public Members Resign from Sham San Joaquin Valley Air District Advisory Workgroup
All three public representatives to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District’s Emission Reduction Credit (ERC) Public Advisory Workgroup (PAW) are resigning. Along with overall frustrations with lack of accountability for systemic failures and for poor facilitation of the PAW, they are resigning in response to a two part, damning exposé from Aarón Cantú at Capital and Main showing that the fake and overvalued credits were cashed in by the oil industry to continue dangerous drilling harmful.
Are Groundwater Sustainability Plans upholding the Human Right to Water in California?
In 2012, the state of California passed the Human Right to Water to ensure that every California resident has safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes.
California Moves to Protect Communities from Oil and Gas Pollution
California is considering a 3200-foot health and safety buffer zone between new oil and gas wells and homes, schools, hospitals, as well as other sensitive receptors.
State Water Resources Control Board adopts historic plan to address water-related COVID-debt
Yesterday, the State Water Resource Control Board voted to adopt the California Water & Wastewater Arrearage Payment Program Guidelines (WWAP). These guidelines are the forerunner to the disbursement of hundreds of millions of dollars in debt relief to customers of California’s public water systems.