Dan Bacher

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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – For the first time in over 100 years, biologists from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) have observed a fall-run Chinook salmon returning to spawning in the Klamath Basin in Oregon.

After discussing the return of the first Klamath River salmon to Oregon last week for the first time in 114 years just a few weeks after the completion

Reply Current News, Elections, Environmental News 11/04/2024 12:30:00 AM A + A -Email Printhttps://www.elkgrovenews.net/2024/11/big-oil-spent-169-million-lobbying.html

Restore the Delta's Executive Director Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla just released the following statement responding to the 2024 election results, affirming

One of the biggest and most censored stories of the past several years is the increasingly cozy relationship between the oil industry and journalists and journalist organizations in California.

Hundreds of fall-run Chinook salmon are now spawning on the Klamath River and its tributaries both above and below the former sites of the four PacifiCorp dams now that the dam removal has been completed.

Once again this year the Western States Petroleum Association was again one of the “lede sponsors” of the Sacramento Press Club’s Annual Journalism Awards Reception on April 11. And this time no journalists other than this one held the organizers of the event and the awards recipients accountable for embracing Big Oil funding of journalism awards.

California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is the nation’s largest and most lucrative pollution trading scheme for factory farm biogas.

Newsom didn't include restoring the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, now in its biggest ever ecological crisis, and California salmon fisheries in his campaign to “safeguard California values.” Under his administration, no Delta smelt, once the most abundant fish in the estuary, have been found in the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fall Midwater Trawl Survey for the past six years.