Over 30 television and radio spots have run on the Caltrans confiscation of the “Save the Delta! Stop the Tunnels!” signs – we have placed a few links below.  Beyond that find links for the Sac Bee’s great editorial cartoon on the sign confiscations and a few related newspaper stories and editorials.  Due to incoming...Read More

This Wednesday, July 17, from noon to 6 p.m., the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) will hold a public meeting at the DoubleTree Hotel and Conference Center, 2001 Point West Way in Sacramento.  Parking lots are gated, but parking will be validated. The topic is Chapters 8-12 of the BDCP Administrative Draft.  This includes Chapter...Read More

letter to Caltrans in Rio Vista with a Notice to Cease and Desist Removal of Signs in the Delta.   The letter notes that: Caltrans has been inconsistent in citing applicable codes, sometimes claiming that signs had to be more than 660 feet from the public roadway and other times claiming that they had to be...Read More

Congressman Devin Nunes, who represents so many of the people who put up those signs down the valley, doesn’t like the Peripheral Tunnels as a solution. “Just because you build the tunnels doesn’t mean we can move the water,” he explained. “Why are you going to spend $30 billion on something that is going to...Read More

In our last newsletter, we commented on AB 145, legislation that would move the state’s drinking water program from the Department of Public Health to the State Water Resources Control Board. We were critical of the idea because we’ve seen how much trouble the Water Board has regulating water quality in the Delta. But Jennifer...Read More

Dr. Robert Pyke attended last week’s Delta Science Program brown bag discussion of Delta levees, including discussion of a test last year on a test embankment on Sherman Island by Professor Scott Brandenberg and a team from UCLA. Dr. Pyke reports that a test of a peat levee using a shaker to simulate earthquake conditions...Read More

Yasha Levine reports on an interesting correlation between Stewart Resnick’s pistachio empire and economic sanctions against Iran, which used to be the world’s main producer of pistachios. Says Levine: Economic sanctions against Iran were renewed and intensified under every single president after Carter, and all the while America’s domestic pistachio farming exploded. In the past thirty...Read More