Items Tagged with 'Defenders of Wildlife'

Joe Shultz is the new executive director of the newly launched Platform for Agriculture and Climate Transformation and Jaime Adams has been tapped as the new senior policy adviser for climate at USDA.

Environmental groups are pushing the state water board to increase freshwater flows by trimming out senior rights holders through an emergency regulation.

Environmental groups are praising the Newsom administration for instead moving forward on the 2018 Bay-Delta Plan.

Conservation groups praised the Biden administration’s first step in conserving 30% of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030, but the nation’s largest farm group said the initiative still lacks specifics, and a key farm-state senator said he was worried about removing too much land from production.

On Tuesday the commission unanimously voted to pursue an appeal of a court decision blocking the state from protecting native bumblebees.

A state judge has ruled that California cannot list four native bumblebee species under protections for endangered fish.