Last Friday, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) took steps towards providing greater long-term certainty to water users by submitting documents to the State Water Resources Control Board outlining potential voluntary agreements to support environmental objectives while protecting water supply reliability. Available on the California…
Yesterday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that Val Dolcini has been appointed as Deputy Secretary for Agriculture at the California Environmental Protection Agency. Dolcini was administrator for the Farm Service Agency at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 2014 to 2017, where he was also state executive director for California. According to Newsom’s press release, Dolcini…