Just how far will Newsom go in his fight with the Trump administration over environmental protections? It may depend on water.
scientists with the National Marine Fisheries Service on July 1 submitted a 1,123-page report, called a biological opinion, that found the proposed pumping increases would probably jeopardize the continued existence of endangered winter-run Chinook salmon, threatened spring-run Chinook and threatened Central Valley steelhead, as well as endangered Southern Resident killer whales that eat salmon.
The anticipated federal rollback led “us to do something we’d never done before,” California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot said last month in an interview. “That is untether ourselves from relying on that federal biological opinion and to ensure we have an objective, science-based process to update those pumping rules, and that we are not trapped in the political paradigm set out by the president.
Kightlinger chuckled when asked how state officials have so far responded. “They agree that in the perfect world, that would be the best approach. They also seem to be saying, we don’t know if that works in today’s world with our administrations so far apart from each other philosophically.” “And he is good on a lot of issues,” she added. “But it will not look good if you veto SB1 and then you put out [an endangered species] permit that results in even less water going to the fish than previously. How do you spin that one?”Metropolitan, Westlands and other delta water users waged years of legal battles against pumping curbs contained in the 2008 and 2009 biological opinions for salmon and smelt. The restrictions were ultimately upheld in federal appeals court.
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