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Ringside: How Dredging the Delta Enables Groundwater Recharge

August 28, 2025 3:45 amAugust 28, 2025 3:46 am

ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization and winner of multiple Pulitzer prizes, recently published a report “The Drying Planet.” They report that “Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the...

California Sea Level Rise Mitigation Act

July 11, 2022 3:42 pmJuly 11, 2022 3:46 pm

California has a number of formal acts in statute. Public Resources Code Division 20.6.5 provides the California Sea Level Rise Mitigation and Adaptation Act of 2021, which is contained in Sections 30970 to 30973. Division 20.6.5 was added in 2021 by...

Assembly Select Committee on Sea Level Rise Holds First Meeting in Five Years

December 5, 2019 3:03 pm

The State Assembly’s Select Committee on Sea Level Rise and the California Economy held their first meeting since 2014 in Encinitas on Tuesday. In front of the public, Assemblymembers and other officials discussed environmental changes, economical costs, and other factors...