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California regulators back off planned groundwater crackdown – E & E News

State water regulators, on November 15th, canceled their scheduled vote to take over groundwater planning for an agricultural region of the San Joaquin Valley, saying they needed more time to review whether they even needed to take over after local officials made their plan more stringent.

 

California water agency set to vote on $141 million for Delta tunnel – Los Angeles Times

The powerful board of Southern California’s largest urban water supplier will soon vote on whether to continue funding a large share of preliminary planning work for the state’s proposed water tunnel in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

 

New California wolf pack discovered roaming 50 miles from Lake Tahoe – San Francisco Chronicle

A new pack of wolves has been confirmed in California’s Sierra Valley, a mountainous area about 50 miles north of Lake Tahoe in the vicinity of Plumas County, marking another step forward in the remarkable comeback of wolves.