The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit broadly upheld the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s ability to provide additional flow releases in California’s Trinity River to protect salmon.
A federal judge today refused a request by a coalition of California Central Valley agribusiness and irrigators to turn off the water in northern California’s Trinity River.
The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations represented by Earthjustice, filed papers today in the U.S. District Court in Fresno defending the planned release of Trinity River water to keep salmon alive.
There are few victories sweeter and more dramatic than the one just wrested by Earthjustice attorney Jan Hasselman and his tribal allies in a Fresno, California courtroom this week. They prevented a corporate grab of water needed by an entire run of chinook salmon for their spawning run up the Klamath/Trinity rivers system. The drama—and…
Powerful business interests are in court trying to seize that water from the Klamath/Trinity River system, putting tens of thousands of salmon, and an entire generation of their offspring, in peril.
Looking back at the most popular blog posts from 2013 we find a wide variety of subjects that generated substantial readership. From sharks to climate to honeybees, UNEARTHED readers were all over the map this year.
Talia Harris is the lobbying and project manager with the Policy & Legislation (PAL) team where she contributes to the design and implementation of a lobbying management structure for the organization, and serves as a lobbying compliance lead, working with lawyers and leaders of the organization to coordinate lobbying registration and reporting across numerous jurisdictions throughout the country.
The Klamath River has a basic problem: too much water promised to too many people. Now salmon are dying, causing local fishermen and tribal nations to suffer.
