Trump has promised to send “a magnificent amount” of water to Central Valley farms. In reality, he's throwing water flows through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta out of whack by reducing species protection. hiltzikm's latest column:
It didn’t require supernatural powers of clairvoyance to guess the name of President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of the Interior as successor to the cartoonishly unethical Ryan Zinke.both pledged to fight the rollback of endangered species protections in court.
There may also be lawsuits from environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council. The NRDC’s water director, Kate Poole, said Wednesday that “these new rules and its most endangered species for the financial interests of the President’s political backers and Secretary Bernhardt’s former clients.” She’s right.Trump has labored under since his presidential campaign — that California has plenty of water but lets it flow uselessly out to the sea instead of diverting it to rich farmers. This is a notion that was pumped into Trump’s head by people like Rep.
That sounded familiar. At a congressional hearing in January 2010, McClintock blamed apportionments that had deprived growers of some access to water on “the environmental left’s pet project, the delta smelt.
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