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Saturday, June 03, 2023
The Newsom administration championed $75 million in drought relief to keep small agricultural businesses afloat. Yet the emergency assistance will not make it to those in need until at least summer.
The Legislature is advancing bills to ensure environmental justice has a seat at the state water board and that the agency is better prepared for drought.
The Department of Conservation (DOC) wants to hear from people about how to set up the $50 million Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program established by the legislature this year. The goal is to hear from stakeholders in the Central Valley about what uses they would like to see for acres removed from irrigated agricultural use.
Assembly Agriculture Chair Robert Rivas of Hollister is pushing for California to clean up all of its surface waters enough to be drinkable, fishable and swimmable by 2050.
The Environmental Defense Fund has published a guide for local agencies preparing for a future with a large portion of the nation’s most productive lands no longer farmed.
