Protections
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Small Outdoors Businesses Protections
The Outdoor Recreation Roundtable and its members are working tirelessly to support the outdoor industry’s small businesses
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Gov. Newsom Plans Veto to Block Trump Rollback of Endangered Fish Species Protections
It would be a shame for the governor to cap off his first legislative session by vetoing a bill as important to California and Californians as SB1.
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SB 1 with protections for Delta species.
As our followers know, Restore the Delta has been busy supporting SB 1 with protections for Delta species. And we continue to support these goals and the full bill as it was initially written.
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California's Entanglement Settlement Fish and Wildlife Protections
Californians will be pleased to know that Dungeness crab will be caught off the coast with greater care for endangered wildlife under a settlement announced by the Center for Biological Diversity, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA).
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Senate Defeats Bill that Would Weaken Protections Against Aquatic Invasive Species
Today, the U.S. Senate defeated S.1129, the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2017, based on its inclusion of a provision – the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (VIDA) - which would have weakened Clean Water Act protections against aquatic invasive species entering the Great Lakes though the ballast water of ships. The Senate defeated a motion to limit debate on the bill 56-42, needing 60 votes to proceed.
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From Bay Journal: Bay Council Approves Stream, Land Protections on Chesapeake
Leaders of the state-federal Bay Program partnership pledged new efforts Thursday to protect streams draining the Chesapeake watershed even as they acknowledged that their key pollution reduction efforts have fallen behind schedule.